FSAO Policies
All billing rates must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Financial and Cost Analysis every two years, at a minimum if the Service Center as a whole has at least $5,000 annual activity.
- Financial Analysis See this page for further details on the Service Center Billing Rate Policy.
- Office for Research and Innovation (ORI)
- Manual Business Procedures Section 315 See this page to determine what qualifies as fee-for-service and the procedures that drive service activities.
- Federal Cost Policy from MSU OSP/CGA
Rates:
Forms
- Equipment Useful Lives
- Fee for Service Activities in Academic Setting
- Manual of Business Procedures Billing Rate Section 5 (under 'quick links tab')
- MSU Admin Fee Principles
- Sample Service Agreement: maintained centerally, can be found within MBP Section 315
- Service Center Billing Rates and Testing Rates Templates (under 'quick links' tab)
- Unallowed Cost Examples
TEMPLATES
- Testing or Per Unit Rates – For testing or when services are performed on a per unit basis (fixed price for a service such as $X per test).
- Testing or Per Hour Rates – For testing to be billed based on time or when a services are performed on a per hour basis (unless primary cost component is labor, then see c).
- Service Hourly Rates – For charging users based on time where the primary cost component is labor ($X per hour of labor).
- Noncredit Instruction – For per-course or per-seminar rates.
- Price List and Markup Calculation – For resale of goods or services where a markup is added to the cost of goods or services to cover unit administrative and overhead costs and the markup is a percentage of the cost of the direct materials or items.
- Facilities and Adminstrative Cost Rates
- Fringe Rates
- F&A Rate Components
