The budget should include indirect costs, if any, for the other institution. The UM budget includes all UM costs plus a separate line item for subcontracts. The subcontract budget pages usually will be placed in the proposal immediately following the UM budget pages. The Statement of Work should include a description of the subcontractor's obligations in the collaboration, including specific aims, milestones, timelines, and methods. The PI should ensure that specific deliverables are listed, especially those required by the prime sponsor award.
Examples are interim and final technical reports, data, required meetings, and so forth.
Deliverables and milestones allow the UM PI to monitor the progress of the collaborators so that the goals of the entire project may be achieved. Usually this will involve a routing process similar to UM's. The UM PI may begin the routing process at UM before the subcontractor's authorized signature is obtained. However, the UM proposal will not be signed until an authorized signature is obtained for the subcontract budget. The agency form should be used to prepare the budget, or if no form exists, print the budget on plain bond paper.