{"id":2317,"date":"2025-09-04T23:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/?page_id=2317"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:07:00","slug":"pre-award-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/pre-award-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Budgeting and Pre-Award Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<som-cell cell-info=\"{&quot;ID&quot;:2318,&quot;post_author&quot;:&quot;55643&quot;,&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-09-04 23:41:39&quot;,&quot;post_date_gmt&quot;:&quot;2025-09-05 03:41:39&quot;,&quot;post_content&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;post_title&quot;:&quot;PreAward Home Page&quot;,&quot;post_excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;post_status&quot;:&quot;publish&quot;,&quot;comment_status&quot;:&quot;closed&quot;,&quot;ping_status&quot;:&quot;closed&quot;,&quot;post_password&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;post_name&quot;:&quot;preaward-home-page&quot;,&quot;to_ping&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;pinged&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;post_modified&quot;:&quot;2025-09-22 11:29:10&quot;,&quot;post_modified_gmt&quot;:&quot;2025-09-22 15:29:10&quot;,&quot;post_content_filtered&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;post_parent&quot;:0,&quot;guid&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/shire\\\/cell\\\/preaward-home-page\\\/&quot;,&quot;menu_order&quot;:0,&quot;post_type&quot;:&quot;somcell&quot;,&quot;post_mime_type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;comment_count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;filter&quot;:&quot;raw&quot;}\" cell-meta=\"{&quot;_upd_sortorder&quot;:[&quot;1&quot;],&quot;layout&quot;:[&quot;RepeatableBoxes&quot;],&quot;cellInformation&quot;:[&quot;{\\&quot;singleCellBlocks\\&quot;:{},\\&quot;repeatableBoxes\\&quot;:[{\\&quot;includeLink\\&quot;:1,\\&quot;linkIcon\\&quot;:\\&quot;calculator\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkHeading\\&quot;:\\&quot;Estimate Your Project Cost\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkText\\&quot;:\\&quot;Use our budget tool to estimate the cost of SHIRE services to support your project\\&quot;,\\&quot;morelinkText\\&quot;:\\&quot;Visit the Tool\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkUrl\\&quot;:\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/shire\\\/pre-award-support\\\/shire-budget-tool\\\/\\&quot;},{\\&quot;includeLink\\&quot;:1,\\&quot;linkIcon\\&quot;:\\&quot;circle-question\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkHeading\\&quot;:\\&quot;What to Expect\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkText\\&quot;:\\&quot;Learn more about the SHIRE billing process\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkUrl\\&quot;:\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/shire\\\/pre-award-support\\\/what-to-expect\\\/\\&quot;},{\\&quot;includeLink\\&quot;:1,\\&quot;linkHeading\\&quot;:\\&quot;Controlling Costs in the SHIRE\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkText\\&quot;:\\&quot;There are a number of best practices to control the costs of the SHIRE for your project\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkIcon\\&quot;:\\&quot;lightbulb\\&quot;,\\&quot;linkUrl\\&quot;:\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/shire\\\/pre-award-support\\\/controlling-costs-in-the-shire-tips-and-tricks\\\/\\&quot;}],\\&quot;boxCustomStyles\\&quot;:{\\&quot;includeUnderline\\&quot;:1,\\&quot;includeLink\\&quot;:1,\\&quot;backgroundColor\\&quot;:\\&quot;mediumBlueOnLightGray\\&quot;,\\&quot;columnLayout\\&quot;:\\&quot;3\\&quot;},\\&quot;boxType\\&quot;:\\&quot;iconLinks\\&quot;,\\&quot;boxStyleOption\\&quot;:\\&quot;icon-boxes\\&quot;}&quot;],&quot;apiCallInformation&quot;:[&quot;{}&quot;]}\"><\/som-cell>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\">As a cloud-computing platform, there are costs that come with using <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\">the SHIRE<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\">. Many of the costs in the SHIRE are subsidized by UNC Health and the university.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\"> The charges passed on to researchers are consumption-based charges. Studies with just a few users and straightforward computing needs will have <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW152566740 BCX0\">lower monthly costs. Studies with lots of users, big data, and using tools like large language models (LLM) will have higher costs.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW152566740 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As a cloud-computing platform, there are costs that come with using the SHIRE. Many of the costs in the SHIRE are subsidized by UNC Health and the university. The charges passed on to researchers are consumption-based charges. Studies with just a few users and straightforward computing needs will have lower monthly costs. Studies with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/pre-award-support\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Budgeting and Pre-Award Support\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}