About OPAM
The Office of Proposal & Award Management (OPAM) supports the OHSU research community by providing pre-award and post-award administration of sponsored proposals and awards. OPAM provides the required institutional approval authority for all non-industry proposals and awards.
OPAM is a 50-persons unit that reports to OHSU's Senior Vice President for Research and is part of Research Development and Administration (RDA), OPAM works hand-in-hand with:
OPAM's support for PIs and staff includes the following:
Providing resource for PI and department staff
- Provides superior customer service
- Interprets federal regulations, sponsor guidelines and award terms and conditions
- Answers pre and post-award questions accurately and timley
- Acts as a resource for understanding compliance issues
Develop & submit proposal
- Provides institutional approval for all proposal submissions.
- Provides follow-up with funding agencies on pending applications.
Negotiate & accept an award
- Supplies necessary assurances
- Secures institutional signatures
- Coordinates formal correspondence with sponsors
- Negotiates award language
- Creates, negotiates and finalizes subawards
Aligns OHSU policy and procedures with federal regulations
- Subrecipient monitoring
- Single Audit
Management of awards
- Provides coordination of prior approval requests
- Oversees expenditures of sponsored funds
- Requests and applies payment from a sponsors
- Processes subaward invoices
Report on & close out an award
- Provides fiscal reports to sponsor
- Performs close-out of awards with sponsors
- Coordinates award relinquishments