Proposals submitted through Discovery Park that result in an award will be budgeted in minors using the Discovery Park department numbers. Business Managers in areas that are anticipated to be highly impacted by this have indicated their desire to keep the operational processes within their areas in order to best serve their customers. We anticipate that these procedures will no longer be necessary once the building are complete and staff have moved into the same physical location.

The Discovery Park business office staff’s goal is to relieve the departments of the preparation and submission of large interdisciplinary proposals that will be submitted through Discovery Park. Administering the operations of the awards will allow the Discovery Park staff to become the campus experts on large proposal preparation across a variety of sponsors. Our mission is to provide outstanding service to the PI’s and to better assist them with proposal preparation, interpreting sponsor guidelines, streamlining the process for obtaining cost share commitments and interface with the sponsoring agencies and university business offices.

When a proposal is submitted through Discovery Park, the PI/Co-PI’s home departments will receive a copy of the proposal for their records. When the subsequent award is made, minor accounts will be established within the Discovery Park department range but will be administered in the PI/Co-PI’s home departments. By way of the following processes, the PI/Co-PI’s home departments will be able to put staff on payroll, distribute payroll across the Discovery Park department and the home department accounts, as well as handle travel and purchasing functions.