A-Z Index and Glossary

Business & Finance

Broad Agency Announcement. A research solicitation or funding notice used in particular by the Department of Defense.

Also sometimes, Business Associates Agreements. A contract between a HIPAA covered entity and a business associate. It includes a requirement to spell out how data breaches will be handled.

BEC or Business Engagement Center is the former name of Corporate Research Alliances.

A biological safety level (BSL), or biosafety containment level, is a set of laboratory safeguards (equipment, practices, security) designed to protect researchers in the laboratory, as well as the surrounding community and environment, from infection or contamination when working with biological materials and/or potential biohazards.  The containment levels range from the lowest risk of biosafety level 1 (BSL1) to the highest risk of biosafety level 4 (BSL4).

Background Intellectual Property

The Blue Pages are a directory ORSP created to help find Unit Administrative Contacts. If you're looking for a Research Administrator in your school, college, institute, or department, and/or you don't have access to eRessearch and do not know how to get started, the Blue Pages are a great place to start.

The budget period is a subset of the total Project Period. For example, a project period may be 22-months and consist of two budget periods of 12- and 10-months.

See https://finance.umich.edu/programs/forms/Budget-Reallocation-Functionality

When you need to reallocate budgets on existing Projects/Grants (P/Gs), Finance has Budget Reallocation Functionality. (This replaced the legacy 7471 Excel spreadsheet, which is sometimes still referenced.)

• My LINC Training documents (these include the basic steps for creating or approving a Budget Reallocation in M-Pathways -- including alternate approver instructions)
• Unit Liaison Presentation
• FAQs
• Process Flow Diagrams

All of these can be found by navigating from:  http://www.finance.umich.edu/programs/budget-reallocation-functionality

The Buy American Act restricts the purchase of non-domestic supplies. This act applies to federal government contracts for products used in the U.S. The act states that the cost of domestic components must exceed 50 percent of the total cost of components in an end product. The end product itself must also be manufactured in the United States. The purpose of this act is to give preferential treatment to domestically sourced materials and U.S. manufactured goods.

Exceptions include when the prices of domestic supplies greatly exceed foreign offers, if the goods are for use outside of the U.S., when domestic items are unavailable, or if the expected value of the procurement is below the micro-purchase threshold. The Buy American Act is intended for companies who wish to obtain federal government contracts.

Businesses wishing to achieve compliance must ensure that the cost of domestic materials used in their end product exceed the cost of any non-domestic materials. They must also guarantee their end product is manufactured in the United States.

Related Certifications
Berry Amendment Compliance

The Call for Intent to Submit process relates to the many Limited Submission funding opportunities that exist. We communicate both the Calls for Intent to Submit and the Limited Submissions in a single communication.To be informed of the opportunities we have identified, you can sign up for our Research Blueprint newsletter, which is distributed twice-monthly. Interested parties declare their interest for a Call for Intent to Submit and/or submit competition materials for a Limited Submission competition. For a comprehensive list of currently open limited opportunities, visit the UMOR Limited Submissions Homepage. Questions: contact umorlimitedsubmissions@umich.edu.

'CAR' is an acronym for a Conflict of Interest (COI) Administrative Record that houses all the relevant COI information (e.g., final management plans, Financial COI reports due to sponsors, approved Regental Action Requests [RARs]) and indicates the status of the COI review and RAR approval, if applicable.  
 

An award that allows significant programmatic flexibility to a senior investigator with a successful history with the agency or a junior investigator with high research potential.

Cost Accounting Standards. Specific rules promulgated by the federal government to achieve consistent accounting practices for sponsored projects.

Now known as SAM. See Frequently Requested Proposal Data.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A certificate of confidentiality (CoC) protects the privacy of human research subjects by prohibiting the forced disclosure of their individually identifiable, sensitive research information, records or data to anyone not associated with the research.  For details, see the U-M HRPP Certificates of Confidentiality webpage. 

See also Representations & Certification. 

Call for Applications

See Assistance Listing Number 

Chief Financial Officer