List any other directly incurred costs in this section, with a brief description of each item, or group of items.
Items should be specified as far as possible in the attachments 'Case for Support' and 'Justification of resources' and justified in terms of requirement for the research proposed.
Examples of items that may be included under this heading are:
Consumables - please specify.
Consultancy fees.
Field work fees/subjects/informants.
Computing - include recurrent costs of computing dedicated to each project only, e.g. software licences. Do not include any costs associated with the use of the host organisation's central computing facilities.
Equipment - only items costing less than £10,000 (including VAT)
Equipment - related items (if not included as part of the Research Organisation's estates costs), e.g.
Maintenance (external contracts/agreements).
Relocation.
Rental charges (specify equipment or service being used and basis of charging).
Access charges for medium or small research facilities (specify the nature of the facility and the basis of charging). In accordance with TRAC, the total FEC of a grant containing charges for use by the project of existing research facilities must not include any net depreciation costs if the facility was purchased with Research Council funding.
Glass house consumables.
Recruitment and advertising costs for staff directly employed on the project.
Purchase/hire/running costs of vehicles if necessary for the project.
Sub-contracting.
Market assessment (Follow on Fund only).
Is Exception?
To enable UKRI to meet reporting requirements, all overseas costs incurred by non-UK organisations, [except non-UK Co-Investigator and non-UK Researcher salary costs*] ,must be entered into the Other Directly Incurred costs using the following format: In the description box you should enter - ‘Organisation; Country; Cost Category; Cost Description’.
The cost categories for this call are as follows (please amend to show headings applicable to the specific call):
E.g:
‘University of Nairobi; Kenya; Staff; 1 x PDRA’
‘University of Nairobi; Kenya; Travel and Subsistence; 4 x flights’
‘University of Nairobi; Kenya; Other Directly Incurred Costs; 5 x Workshops including catering and accommodation’
‘University of Nairobi; Equipment; Name of equipment
[* Non-UK Co-Investigator and Researcher time allocation and salary costs should be entered under the standard Co-I/Researcher section and marked as an ‘Exception’ using the Cost Type tick box. All other non-UK Co-I or Researcher related costs (where applicable), whether fieldwork, equipment or travel and subsistence, should be entered in the ‘Other Directly Incurred’ section as outlined above.]
- THE FOLLOWING IS COUNCIL SPECIFIC GUIDANCE -
AHRC - Specific Requirements
Exceptional cost Indicator
Please note that the majority of AHRC schemes do not permit this therefore you should only select the ‘Is Exception’ option if it is specifically mentioned in the scheme guidance document.
By using the ‘Is Exception’ option you are requesting that the cost of this item is funded at 100% FEC by AHRC.
ESRC - Specific Requirements
Exceptional Cost Indicator
ESRC is currently trialing the inclusion of non-UK based investigators and Business, third sector or government body co-investigators on most of its grant funding schemes. This provides the ability for applicants to identify such costs (to be paid at 100%) under an exceptional fund heading.
Therefore such costs should be indicated by selecting the "Is Exception" box
within this Other Directly Incurred cost section.
Social Survey costs (in house)
Costs for social survey work proposed to be done using in-house resources should be included under this heading. Where it has been agreed that large surveys should be performed by an in-house team then costs will be funded at the standard 80 per cent fEC funding rate.
Proposals including such costs will need to fully justify why the work should not be subject to external competition, and provide benchmarking or other data to support a case that best value for money is being achieved through using research organisation staff rather than external contractors.
Surveys are required to be subject to normal competitive purchasing principles, including where these are expected to exceed £25k full tendering procedures. Survey costs should be estimated as robustly as possible. For all items exceeding £25,000 the proposal should explain the basis for the estimates, using bench marking figures wherever possible. Estimates for survey costs should NOT allow for inflation.
List any other directly incurred costs in this section, with a brief description of each item, or group of items.
Items should be specified as far as possible in the attachments 'Case for Support' and 'Justification of resources' and justified in terms of requirement for the research proposed.
MRC - Specific Requirements
NHS costs
Applications may be made for research costs associated with NHS studies. Costs included in these applications comprise of:
Research Costs
NHS Treatment Costs
NHS Support Costs
For further information regarding the above detailed costs, please see the MRC website www.mrc.ac.uk.
Overseas Centre Costs
If the fellow plans to spend six months or more at an overseas centre a contribution to the centre’s estates and indirect costs can be requested as other directly incurred costs. These can be requested at 100% (Exception).