Proposal Development Forms
The ORSP website provides guidelines to assist with the grant writing process as well as the requisite forms necessary to finalize and submit grants.
When the proposal is submitted for review, PI/PD must obtain the requisite signatures on reference form and submit this form and simultaneously submit both form and proposal.
UPDATED AS OF 07-30-08
Proposal Award Authorization Form
The ORSP Budget Development Worksheet is designed to facilitate the budgeting process by calculating for you all the required data. The figures will be reviewed and edited by the ORSP staff and changes made if necessary. This form must be used to prepare your grant project budget and must be submitted along with your final proposal for review by ORSP.
UPDATED! NOW INCLUDES A PERSON MONTH CALCULATOR!
UTPA Budget Development Worksheet
When committing UTPA resources to a proposed project the PI/PD must document and secure the authorization of the use of these resources using the Proposal/Award Cost Sharing Recap Form.This form should accompay the proposal package when routed for administrative review and approval.
Proposal/Award Cost Sharing Recap
The Request for Waiver of Indirect Cost Recovery form is used to request that UTPA accept less indirect cost reimbursement from the proposed funding agency than what it may legally charge. This request should only be made when the funding agency states in their request for proposals or in their submission guidelines that it will pay a specified rate for indirect costs, usually less than UTPA's federally negotiated rate or no indirect costs.
Request for Waiver of Indirect Cost Recovery
This document contains UTPA's policies and procedures on handling the potential for a conflict of interest on the part of the Principal Investigator and other key personnel involved in sponsored project activities. A Statement of Potential Conflict of Interest form is included to be executed by the PI.
Statement of Potential Conflict of Interest
This disclosure is used by the PI to declare any financial interests that may be in direct conflict with the proposed research and/or with the funding agency.

