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Toolkit- Developing a Budget/Allowable Costs

DMS Plan BUDGET - Tool KIT

Developing a a budget to support a DMS plan is highly dependent on the data that will support the research. The NIH lists Allowable Costs to support data management plans.  The costs must be incurred during the performance period.  

Unallowable costs are infrastructure costs that are included in institutional overhead, costs associated with routine conduct of research, including collecting or gaining access to data, and costs that are double charged or inconsistently charged as both direct and indirect costs. 

Considerations include the amount, type, and complexity of the data, data standards and FAIR compliance, data curation, de-identification, institutional (local) data management requirements, and repository fees.  NIST strongly recommends compliance with the FAIR principles.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published, Life Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data: The Challenge of Forecasting Costs (2020).