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Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A): Costs that are incurred by a grantee for common or joint objectives and cannot be identified specifically with a particular project or program. These costs are also known as "indirect costs."
FAR: See Federal Acquisition Regulations.
Fast-Track Initiative: The Fast-Track Initiative is an opportunity for small businesses to submit both Phase I and II contract proposals for concurrent peer review. It can be used by small businesses whose proposals are likely to enhance the probability of the project's commercial success. This initiative also helps minimize any funding gaps between Phases I and II.
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR): Laws regulating Government contracting.
Federal Register: An official, daily publication of the Federal governmentcommunicating proposed and final regulations and legal notices issued by federal agencies, including announcements of the availability of funds for financial assistance. Go to Federal Register (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/).
Federal Wide Assurance (FWA): Online form every institution and collaborating institution conducting human subjects research must file with the Office for Human Research Protections--HHS (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp) to establish policies and procedures to protect human subjects as required by 45 CFR 46.
Fee: An amount (in addition to actual, allowable costs) paid to an organization providing goods or services consistent with normal commercial practice. This payment also is referred to as “profit.”
Fellowship: An NIH training program award where NIH specifies who receives the award. Fellowships comprise the F activity codes.
Final Proposal Revision: After completing negotiations, offerors are asked to submit a final proposal revision that documents all cost and technical agreements reached during negotiations.
Financial Status Report (FSR): A financial report due 90 days after the end of each budget period for those awards not under SNAP, and at the end of the competitive segment for those awards under SNAP, showing the status of awarded funds for that period.
Fiscal year: Federal budget year from October 1 to September 30.
FOA: See Funding Opportunity Announcement.
Foreign Component: The performance of any significant scientific element or segment of a project outside of the United States, either by the grantee or by a researcher employed by a foreign organization, whether or not grant funds are expended.
Funding Opportunity Announcement: A publicly available document by which a Federal Agency makes known its intentions to award discretionary grants or cooperative agreements, usually as a result of competition for funds. Funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) may be known as program announcements, requests for applications, notices of funding availability, solicitations, or other names depending on the Agency and type of program.
