rules and regulations of gbpihed - Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of ...

upon by the Institute. There should be no diversion or classification of R&D projects as
consultancy; in case of borderline or doubtful cases the project should be classified as
contract R&D projects rather than as consultancy.
6.2.2. Approvals
6.2.2.(A)For Projects
Competent Authority
Director :
Chairman GB:
6.2.2.(B) For Contracts
Competent Authority
Director :
Chairman GB:
Projects
up to Rs. 50 lakh and not involving the Director or
Director level scientist as one of the consultants
a) beyond the powers of the Director or involving the
Director or a Director level scientist as the sole
consultant;
b) for foreign sponsor.
c) The project proposal will be placed before the
Competent Authority, for consideration and
approval in the prescribed Proforma (Annexure
6.IV).
Contracts
drawn up substantially as per the
model agreement;
a) largely deviating from the
model Agreement;
b) for foreign clients or multiagency
projects.
6.2.3 Authorised signatories to contracts
The authorised signatories in the Institute for all contracts/ agreements shall be the Director. In
the absence of Director, such documents will be signed by the Head of Office. The senior-most
officer from the Finance side and in his absence, the next senior-most officer but not below the
rank of Accounts Officer of the Institute shall be countersigning authority. For multi-agency
projects, the signatories shall be the designated officers of the coordinating Institute
6.2.4 Financial aspects
6.2.4.(A) Costing of Consultancy Project
The charges for consultancy project shall comprise of two main components viz.:
6.2.4.(A) (i) Expenses
a) cost of man-days of staff deployed.
b) cost of physical inputs /services /utilities/ consumables/raw materials/components (if
any) with 25% overheads.
c) Equipment usage cost/cost of equipment procured specifically for the project, if any.
d) External payments envisaged e.g. to outside consultants, for obtaining data, hiring of
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