Upon receipt of a grant or contract, Award Management is responsible for conducting the award review, negotiation, and acceptance. The Administration of Externally Funded Grant and Contracts policy explains this process, and other relevant grant management activities, in further detail.
After a grant agreement has undergone full review and has been signed by both the sponsor and DePaul, Award Management will begin the setup process in BlueSky. During this process, ORS and Restricted Accounting will work together to create an award entry in BlueSky and establish an internal account to charge salaries, benefits, direct expenses, and indirect costs to the grant.
Once this process is complete, the principal investigator will receive a Notice of Grant Award (NOGA) from ORS. The Principal Investigator may not assign staff to a grant or incur any other expenses until after the NOGA has been received.
Things to note about the Notice of Grant Award:
Distribution: The NOGA is an Internal DePaul University document. The sponsor does not receive a copy of the NOGA.
Project Director: Only one individual can be included on a NOGA, though the BlueSky system can include several Co-PIs. When distributing the NOGA, ORS will send a copy to the PI.
Budget Period Dates: While these dates may reflect the entire span of the grant, the Budget Category details will only quantify the current amount funded by the sponsor, which might only be one budget period of a multi-year grant. Additional funds will be added to the budget when the subsequent funding documentation arrives at ORS. Updated NOGAs can then be issued upon request.
Tutorial on Coding Grant Expenses Using the NOGA