FDP Terms and Conditions

GENERAL

• Purpose.
• Definitions.
• Reserved
• Deviations
• Subawards.

Purpose.

These Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) General Terms and Conditions incorporate the requirements of U. S. Office of Management and Budget Circulars as they apply to grants made by Federal awarding agencies to educational and non-profit organizations when each is a party to "Federal Demonstration Project Phase III Agreement."

Definitions.

Terms used in these general terms and conditions have the meanings given in section ___.2 of OMB Circular A-110, with the following additions and clarifications:

1. In lieu of the definition given in paragraph ___.2(e), the term "award" means the award.
2. If the recipient establishes a lower limit than $5,000 for "equipment," as permitted by the definition in paragraph ___.2(l), then items with acquisition costs less than $5,000 are included as equipment for the recipient’s purposes only. The Federal requirements for equipment, as specified in Article 33 or 34 of the award, apply only to items with acquisition costs of $5,000 or more per unit.
3. "Federal awarding agency" as defined in ___.2(o) means the Federal agency that made the award.
4. "Funding period" has the meaning given in paragraph ___.2(r), with the additional clarification that the term includes any extension of the expiration date of the award, such as a no-cost extension authorized by paragraph (b) (3)of Article 25.
5. "Program income," as defined in paragraph ___.2(x), does not include the receipt of principal on loans, rebates, credits, discounts, etc., or interest earned on any of them, unless the agency-specific requirements provide otherwise.
6. The term "property" includes supplies in addition to other types of property identified in the definition in paragraph ___.2(aa).
7. In lieu of the definition given at paragraph ___.2(cc), the term "recipient" means the organization that received the award.
8. In lieu of the definition given in paragraph ___.2(ff), the term "subaward" means an award of financial assistance in the form of money, or property in lieu of money, made under an award by a recipient to an eligible subrecipient or by a subrecipient to a lower tier subrecipient. The term includes financial assistance when provided by any legal agreement, even if the agreement is called a contract, but does not include procurement of goods and services nor does it include: technical assistance, which provides services instead of money; other assistance in the form of loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies, or insurance; direct payments of any kind to individuals; and, contracts which are required to be entered into and administered under procurement laws and regulations
9. The term "subrecipient," as defined in paragraph ___.2(gg) includes the types of organizations shown for the Federal awarding agency in the Appendix A to the FDP Operating Procedures, found at the website http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants/grants_fdp.htm

Reserved

Deviations

Any request by the recipient for waiver or deviation from any provision of either these general terms and conditions or the agency specific requirements shall be submitted to the awarding agency's designated representative identified on the signature page of the Demonstration Agreement. Any request by the recipient for a waiver or deviation from any special condition attached to this award shall be submitted to the cognizant awarding agency official for this particular award (usually the Grants Officer or Contracting Officer who signed the award on behalf of the awarding agency).

Subawards.

Section 5 of OMB Circular A-110 has the following clarification: The applicable provisions for subawards are described in the Appendix A to the Federal Demonstration Partnership "Operating Procedures" found in the matrix at the following website: