Aids faculty in the preparation of grant and contract budgets and the proper formating of proposals.
Assures accurate and timely processing, monitoring and quality control of all proposals to external funding agencies. Grant and Contract Services assists faculty in the preparation of proposal budgets, from the early planning stages to the final grant or contract proposal submission. The group works to ensure that all proposals submitted by UT faculty and staff to outside agencies have reasonable budgets in the correct format, that no University resources have been committed without approval, and that legal provisions of grants and contracts are in agreement with state and institutional requirements. Grant and Contract Services negotiates research contracts with outside agencies, negotiates awards, reviews all awards and accepts or recommends for acceptance by the University, receives proposal refusal notices, and is responsible for all post-award activity, excluding financial accounting.