Project Cost

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This Costing and Pricing Tool page is used to view the total calculated project cost and a breakdown.

If costing details are changed, see: Changes to costing details for impacts.

This page supports the Costing and Pricing Tool (CPT), which was implemented in version 7.7.0 in mid-2021. Research Costing and Pricing (ReCaP) is a separate tool.

Menu path: Access CPT via a toolbar button in a Project record or button/link in an RPR eForm application

 

Project Cost: Fields

The page is divided into the following sections:

Section

Description

Direct Salary Cost

Includes:

        Total calculated salary for each internal investigator and new staff member on the project (Type: Internal Investigators and Type: New Staff in the Project Team page)

        Direct Salary Cost Total
Total of all listed direct salary costs

Other Direct Cost

Total costs for:

        Consumable and capital items with a cost allocating, including all in-kind and cash contributions

        Total calculated cost of external investigator salaries (Type: External Investigators in the Project Team page)

        Total calculated cost of HDR student scholarships, if relevant to the project (Type: Students in the Project Team page)

        Total calculated cost for facility usage, including all in-kind and cash contributions

        Other Direct Cost Total which is a total of all listed other direct costs (above)

Totals

Total costs, broken into:

        Total Direct Cost  (also shown in the Totals panel)
= Direct Salary Cost + Other Direct Cost

        Total Indicative Cost to University (@xx%)
= Total Direct Cost x Cost Multiplier Percentage defined in the Institution Level funding rules)

 

Toolbar options

Options

Description

Outputs

Costing and pricing outputs available for the project and your role

Outputs with CPT data are created and managed by your RME administrators or office staff. They can be provided for different purposes, funders or stakeholders.

For output filter configuration, see: Output Configuration

Close

Returns you to the eForm costing and pricing summary page that has the button/link to open the tool

 

Navigation panel

The panel on the left includes a list of the pages available. Page status indicators are used to inform you about the status of each page.

The Totals section at the bottom of the panel displays an overview of the project totals (read only). See: Project Summary, Totals

 

Related topics

Costing and Pricing Tool pages:

        Consumable and Capital Items

        Facility Usage

        Funding Rules

        ICR Item Override

        Institution Cash and In-kind Contribution

        Project Price

        Project Price (adjustments)

        Project Summary

        Project Team

        Quotation Builder

 

Reference:

        Changes to costing details

        CPT page status indicators

        CPT terminology

 

Costing and Pricing Tool configuration:

        Funding Rules configuration

        Salary and Indexation configuration

 

Product key: Costing and Pricing Tool

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