A researcher has received a federal award with a cost sharing requirement. You are the departmental administrator assigned to assist her in the administration of her award. When you ask her how she plans to meet the cost sharing requirement, she states that she is proposing to use the following items as cost sharing. Please outline what your response to her would be.

1. She will be spending 30% of her time on this award. Half of that time will be charged directly to the grant. The other half of her time will be charged to her department and she would like to use this as cost share.
2. She will be holding regular meetings with her team to discuss the progress of the project. Because of conflicts with everyone's busy schedules, the only time available for these meetings is at lunch. She plans to purchase a light lunch for everyone who attends the meeting. She understands that this is not allowable as a direct charge so she plans to use departmental funds, but will count it as part of her cost sharing.
3. She has received a waiver for part of the facilities and administrative costs on this award. She plans to use the waived F&A to meet part of her cost sharing requirement.
4. The sponsor has approved the purchase of two laboratory computers which are required for the project and will be fully dedicated to project. There are no appropriate desks in the lab to put these computers on. She plans to purchase these with departmental funds and will count them towards her cost sharing requirement.
5. She has received an award from another federal agency. The award/research is directly related to the research of this project so she plans to include this as part of her cost sharing.