Other Support Reminders

Preparation/Review Time: Understanding that preparing and reviewing Other Support pages takes time and effort for all parties, when Harvard Chan is a subcontractor, we urge Grants Managers to push back and ask for more time from the prime institution when the requested turnaround time is less than 5 days, and the requested documents include Other Support pages. Note: When Harvard Chan is the Prime, SRAs will reach out directly to the Sponsor, as needed.

Inter-departmental Projects: When working on a project that requires that a Grants Manager (GM) get Other Support documents from another department at Harvard Chan, the primary GM should notify the secondary GM in the other department immediately. The secondary GM should work directly with the SRA assigned to their own department to have Other Support reviewed and send the final reviewed version back to the primary GM. When the primary GM submits all the required documents to the SRA assigned to their department for official review, the GM can note that the secondary departmental Other Supports have been reviewed.

Within the SRA Team the SRAs will verify that Other Support documents were reviewed by the assigned SRA to avoid Other Supports being re-reviewed multiple times.

Note: Other Support pages should not be signed by the Reporting Individual without first confirming that the Other Support has been reviewed by an SRA.