Sue- What you describe is the situation we have operated under for quite a few years. Our facility has been totally recharge, run as a University Cost Center. That is, we can neither make a profit nor lose money. Setting aside $ for capital equipment purchase is not one of the allowable costs. Rationale- Federal grants are given to perform work described, not to pay for "future capability". Thus the costs of our Facility cannot include a "capital fund" for new instruments. Certainly shared grants are one way to get around this. Another way is to borrow the $ (at Stanford this can be done through the department or dean's office - when they are in a good mood) and then the cost of the loan is a valid cost for recharge, since the researcher is getting to use the equipment. -Marty Bigos Stanford Shared FACS Facility On a somewhat related point to core management & funding, I am hearing at our university that the federal government is saying we can not use recharge money for the upgrading or purchasing of equipment???? Has anyone else heard this? It doers't make any sense to me - it is the only money I have for small equipment addition to existing core facilities without writing a shared instrument or small instrument grant. Any light anyone can shed on this would be helpful. Sue DeMaggio UC Irvine
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