{"id":5052,"date":"2023-03-14T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2023-05-12T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:03:36","slug":"osp-issues-statement-on-rsc-rate-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/osp-issues-statement-on-rsc-rate-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"OSP Issues Statement on RSC Rate Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
See below information from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) concerning RSC rate increases. If your core’s rates are increasing or you receive pushback from.a customer about rate increases, you may wish to refer customers to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The University administers\u00a0Research Service Centers<\/a>\u00a0(RSC\/Core Facilities) according to Federal costing standards, as well as State and University policies. RSCs recover operating costs by applying a break-even costing concept to develop rates charged to RSC customers. Break-even costing is intended to result in zero loss over the long term as any excess deficits are eliminated by adjusting future rates. Federal regulations allow for increases in rates to align with increases in actual costs incurred by RSCs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Anticipating and Budgeting for Rate Increases<\/h2>\n

Across the University, RSCs are widely utilized by sponsored programs. Due to increasing RSC costs and rates, the\u00a0Office of Sponsored Programs<\/a>\u00a0(OSP) recommends\u00a0anticipating increases in the costs of services provided by RSCs and the impact of those increased costs on sponsored program budgets<\/strong>. RSC expenses charged to sponsored programs are calculated based on the RSC\u2019s approved rate structure, not on amounts awarded for individual grants, contracts, or awards.

For many RSCs across campus, increasing costs for both salary and non-salary expenses have necessitated\u00a0or will likely necessitate increased rates.\u00a0As RSCs review their rates during this time, increased costs of operations may require RSCs to adjust rates to avoid sustaining significant deficits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See below information from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) concerning RSC rate increases. If your core’s rates are increasing or you receive pushback from.a customer about rate increases, you may wish to refer customers to the following:   The University administers\u00a0Research Service Centers\u00a0(RSC\/Core Facilities) according to Federal costing standards, as well as State and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55643,"featured_media":5088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-at-12.02.24-PM-e1683907399122.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-at-12.02.24-PM-e1683907399122-300x290.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-at-12.02.24-PM-768x307.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-at-12.02.24-PM-1024x409.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-at-12.02.24-PM-e1683907399122-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}