Research is crucial to your organization’s ability to drive innovation and advance knowledge. Our team provides world-class expertise navigating the complex and dynamic regulatory environment, implementing industry best practices, and optimizing performance.
Under the strategic leadership of Managing Partner Mark Davis, Attain Research aligns our core research enterprise services to enhance market focus and emphasize delivery excellence, addressing diverse client needs and providing enterprise-wide strategy and technology transformation expertise at scale.
Attain Partners has the proven capabilities to optimize revenue related to your IDC overhead reimbursement and compliance processes. Our approach is based on an assessment of how indirect costs can be more accurately associated with Federal and other sponsored programs at your college or university. With this approach and our assessment of your operations, we can help you optimize your reimbursement and make your IDC operations more strategic.
Our skilled professionals have more than 30 years of expertise in executing the complex process of preparing, submitting, and negotiating IDC rate proposals with the Federal government and other program sponsors. Moreover, our team has unmatched experience implementing industry best practices; reviewing, developing and applying costing methodologies; and interpreting the dynamic regulatory environment that affects overhead recovery rates.
With over 40 years of experience, Attain Partners provides tailored library planning and strategy services to academic and research libraries. Our full-service library consulting leverages our deep understanding of university and library structures and programs. Our team works to strengthen your library system using proven evaluation and assessment methods providing custom library strategy, operations, and technology expertise along with innovative recommendations based on trusted best practices.
Our signature Library Cost Study assists universities as they optimize cost recovery related to library expenses supporting sponsored grants and contracts. The Study provides research institutions with data necessary to negotiate the library component of their indirect cost rate in accordance with federal requirements. The Library Cost Study also provides assessments to inform library planning and align library operations with strategic university goals.
Our experts harness decades of experience to provide reliable services for capital equipment inventory and reconciliation, building componentization studies, property insurance appraisals, and depreciation reporting for financial statements, compliance, and the indirect cost component reimbursement for federal awards and grants.
Attain Partners and Cayuse are the driving force behind how research is managed and administered. Cayuse’s integrated, cloud-based research platform powers a suite of applications that maximize researcher success, improve collaboration, and streamline the entire research lifecycle.
As a Cayuse preferred partner, Attain Partners combines deep subject matter expertise—including pre-award and post-award grants management, and regulatory compliance—with Cayuse’s leading-edge software to create a dynamic partnership that enhances research administration processes and technology. Our team guides institutions through their implementations, operationalizing the Cayuse system to ensure they fully utilize its functionality while aligning with industry best practices. We lead process design, align technology with institutional culture, and deliver change management strategies to help institutions achieve sustainable improvements in efficiency and compliance.
Attain Partners’ approach to Managed Services and Outsourcing distinguishes us from traditional providers. From interim staffing to outsourced fixed asset record maintenance and depreciation reporting, we offer comprehensive outsourcing services designed to enhance your institution’s efficiency and compliance.
Through our interim staffing services, we help address gaps in institutional knowledge by providing functional and technical experts in research administration and Federal compliance. We specialize in serving institutions that may not yet meet the threshold volume of research, lack the funds to invest in necessary staff, or aren’t able to manage compliance or other complexities of research organizations. Our professionals are experienced in serving colleges, universities, and academic medical centers for all types of awards or cognizant agency jurisdiction.
Attain Partners is highly experienced with managing fixed asset records, providing timely, accurate quarterly and annual updates, and detailed depreciation reporting for regulatory, financial, and tax reporting. We use industry-standard depreciation software that allows the integration of automated movable equipment inventories and reconciliation surveys.
Compliance is critical to your organization’s ability to make an impact. Our team provides world-class expertise navigating the complex and dynamic regulatory environment, implementing industry best practices, and optimizing performance.
At Attain Partners, we understand the headache of an overwhelming number of expired awards—and we want to help get your organization back on track. Attain Partners has worked with institutions to successfully improve business and sponsored program management, including closeout procedures.
Let us tackle the backlog so your team to continue to focus on day-to-day operations.
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