Now that you've received notice of your grant account via the electronic award letter system, you are ready to begin work on your funded project. Before you begin, however, it is important to note that both your sponsoring agency and OHIO have a number of PI/PD responsibilities throughout the duration of the grant. The following are the primary PI/PD requirements:

Project Management
The awarded PI/PD has the responsibility to make significant progress toward the completion of their proposed goals and objectives as outlined in their proposal. Some funding agencies may want quarterly or annual progress repo rts indicating where you are in terms of your project timeline. It is the PI/PD duty to provide the sponsor, in a timely manner, with all technical reports as requested.

Expenditure Management
The awarded PI/PD is the chief fiscal steward on each of their successfully funded projects . This means, that, you must spend your funds in accordance with your proposed budge t and monitor your spending to ensure that no over expenditures are incurred. If cost transfers are needed from grant to grant, the PI/PD must complete these within 90 days of the day that the expense occurred on the grant.

Employee Management
Should students or other contract employees be compensated through grant funds, the PI/PD is responsible for the creation or modif ication of contracts for each of those persons. In addition, the PI/PD is tasked with the technical performance and oversight of those persons.

Subcontract Management
The PI/PD is charged with monitoring the technical progress of all subcontractor as well as approving all invoices from that subcontractor for work completed.

Reporting
Any technical or progress reports required of the sponsor are the PI/PD's responsibility. The filing of patents or protection of intellectual property shall be initiated by the PI/PD by contact the Technology Transfer Office (see the Technology Transfer section of this handbook). Financial reporting is completed on your behalf by Grant and Contract Accounting. A financial report by the PI/PD is not an official university report of expen ditures. For more information, visit the Financial Management section of this handbook.

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