The University of Texas at Arlington is an Institutional member of The Federal Demonstration Partnership which is a cooperative initiative among 9 federal agencies and 120 institutional recipients of federal funds for Phase V. FDP's purpose is to reduce the administrative burdens associated with research grants and contracts. The interaction between FDP's 300 or so university and federal representatives takes place in FDP's 3 annual meetings and, more extensively, in the many collaborative working groups and task forces that meet often by conference calls in order to develop specific work products.
As an FDP member institution, The University of Texas at Arlington is subject to special terms and conditions.
Effective with publication of the January 25, 2008 Notice in the Federal Register (http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/25jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-1262.pdf), research agencies are able to utilize a new standard core set of administrative terms and conditions on research and research-related awards that are subject to OMB Circular A-110, ''Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements With Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations'' (2 CFR part 215). This resulted from an initiative of the Research Business Models (RBM) Subcommittee of the Committee on Science (CoS), a committee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). One of the RBM Subcommittee's priority areas is to create greater consistency in the administration of Federal research awards.
As a result of this priority, the implementation of the standard research terms and conditions by the Terms and Conditions Standing Committee and the recommended changes and updates by the Subawards Task Force at the May 14, 2008 meeting, the subaward agreement form has been restructured and designed as a fillable PDF. All attachment 2 forms have been revised and updated accordingly. With these revisions only one version of the template is necessary (no longer required to choose FDP or nonFDP), and the forms can be used for any of the agencies that have implemented the new Research Terms & Conditions.
For the statutory requirements and the regulatory-based requirements for all Federal research agencies please access the Research Terms & Conditions, Appendix C -National Policy Requirements Matrix at http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/rtc/appc.pdf.
FDP Versions (June 2009)
Supplemental Forms
ATTACHMENT 2 SAMPLES