Request an Indirect (F&A) Cost Waiver on a Proposal

The Dean of Research will consider requests for F&A cost waivers in very limited circumstances. The PI’s Research Administrator and the PI should initiate the request, and it must be approved by the PI and the PI’s school dean's office before being sent for approval to the Dean of Research.  The request can be submitted from the SeRA Proposal Development Routing Form (PDRF) Budget Questions page. View the ORA website's SeRA Proposal Routing Resources for the IDC Waiver User Guide.

For projects administered within the School of Medicine, the Research Administrator and the PI should coordinate the request with their Research Process Manager (RPM) in the Research Management Group.  The RPM will submit the request to the Director of the Research Management Group for review/approval where it will be reviewed and approved as appropriate.

If an F&A cost waiver is approved at 0%, the PI is still responsible for Stanford's infrastructure charge.