PeopleSoft Financials Outage: June 30-July 6 | OSPA Temporary Proposal Form

MU Grants Community,

PeopleSoft Financial System applications will be unavailable from Tuesday, June 30, at 5:00 p.m. until Monday, July 6, at 7:00 a.m. for the fiscal year end. As all accesses to the Grants Module are affected, please refer to the attached instructions for utilizing the Temporary Proposal Form for proposal processing during this period. As a reminder, PS Financial Reporting-FSRPT is available for viewing existing data during the outage period; you cannot make changes in Reporting.

Should you have questions, please contact your OPSA pre-award staff.

Grant Connections | May Meeting Notes

Notes from the May Grant Connections meeting are included below for your review and reference. Though meeting notes are disseminated to the full Grants Community listserv, we encourage your continued (or new!) attendance. Your contributions to discussion and the selection of topics are crucial to the ongoing success of the meetings. Thank you in advance! 

 

InFocus F&A Quarterly Newsletter

The latest issue of the InFocue F&A Quarterly Newsletter was distributed on Thursday, April 16, 2015.  Key topics include the PeopleSoft Finance/Supply Chain Upgrade, Space Survey details, and A-133 Audit updates.  Read the full newsletter here.

Changes to PeopleSoft Proposal Checklist and PSRS Certification Statement

Please note the following changes to the PeopleSoft Proposal Checklist, which intend to give the Compliance Office of each UM campus clearer and more complete information about a proposed project (revised in red, new in blue): 

The Compliance Office and OSPA understand that the PI may not be able to answer some or all of these questions definitively at the proposal submission stage. However, addressing these questions at proposal provides the opportunity to prepare for any compliance issues that may need to be addressed should the proposal be awarded.

Additionally, the certification statement on page 2 of the PSRS is revised as follows:

It is understood that all parties to this submission are in compliance with Federal Regulations regarding Debarment and Suspension, Drug-Free Workplace, Lobbying, and Federal Debt Delinquency, Conflict of Interest, and any other requirements published by the sponsor in connection with this funding application. In addition, it is understood that all parties to this submission are bound to Federal, sponsor and/or UM-specific conflict of interest reporting requirements.  All potential conflicts have been reported to the appropriate University designated office/official and must be addressed by such office/official prior to award setup. It should be is further understood that the approvals given on this form represent general approval of technical merit, allocation of University resources and fiscal budgeting, but do not represent specific approval of personnel title classifications of or salary rates. Where funds are requested for the purchase of equipment, a determination has been made that no other equipment at the University is available or accessible or suitable for the intended use in accordance with Manual for the Procurement and Maintenance of Federally Obtained Property.

Information about new requirements under the 2011 Revised Regulation on Financial Conflict of Interest will be forthcoming from the MU Compliance Office. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about this or the revisions to the Checklist in the meantime.