Capital Equipment Match Program
Guidelines
LSU annually spends $1,000,000 in support of faculty initiatives to purchase capital equipment to facilitate research and scholarship. The Office of Research & Economic Development (ORED) will commit matching equipment funds in all cases where such a commitment is mandated as an eligibility requirement in the Request for Proposals (RFP) from the program. Federal and private foundation equipment purchases will be matched subject to the conditions above; State equipment programs will not be matched. The equipment purchased with a campus match must: be accessible to campus researchers, receive an LSU property number, and reside on the LSU campus during and after the award period. Individual research grants (e.g. an RO1 from NIH or a single investigator grant from NSF) are not eligible for an equipment match. ORED usually expects to provide the full match for capital equipment purchases, but will not match renovation, personnel, supplies, software, or maintenance contract costs, if such are included in the proposal budget. Some "open-ended" RFPs may not be matched in their entirety from the match fund (e.g. "Federal agency provides the first $xxx and the campus provides the remainder" for equipment purchases of unrestrained expense). The match for partially funded proposals will be pro-rated according to the formula in the RFP.
Requests
Requests for capital equipment matches should be made directly to Brooks Keel, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at bkeel@lsu.edu. Please also provide a copy of the RFP with the institutional cost-sharing section highlighted, or the URL with a page number or other cost-share bookmark.
