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Michael Sedillo elaborates on indirect cost rates and standardization efforts
2:01:25
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Michael Sedillo, Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Nonprofit Services, provides additional information about indirect cost rates (ICR) and efforts towards standardization in city contracting processes.
- Sedillo mentions a recent directive clarifying that agencies must honor accepted ICR rates
- He highlights the upcoming ICR application period and the need to honor current or expiring rates
- Sedillo discusses the document vault in Passport as a tool for standardization
- He emphasizes the importance of building a community of practice among chief nonprofit officers to share best practices and work towards a more unified city approach
Michael Sedillo
2:01:25
Sure.
2:01:25
And I just wanted, on the ICR, it is a common thing I hear when I meet with nonprofit providers is somewhat related to your lack of standardization piece which is that I have this accepted rate but the agency is telling me to put the de minimis and there's this back and forth.
2:01:41
As you may know, if not, I wanna make sure you know, we can send it to you or at least the top lines of it.
2:01:46
OMB and MOX, a couple of months ago I believe, sent out a directive making very clear to all agencies that the city must and will honor accepted ICR rates.
2:01:56
And as you probably know, you know, the application period's coming.
2:01:58
There are a significant portion of those that are soon to expire.
2:02:02
The directive also let agencies know that they have to honor the current or expiring rate because there had been some confusion with that.
2:02:08
Actually, one of our members of our MONS advisory council had flagged that.
2:02:12
And then another thing from standardization, why we partnered and are so happy about the document vault that is in Passport, which was a part of HHS Accelerator as you probably know.
2:02:22
Hoping that leads to a lot more standardization so that agency A doesn't ask for the same documents that agency B is asking for.
2:02:29
And then lastly, would say one of the things that I really care about from our chief nonprofit officers is really building a community of practice.
2:02:35
It is true that there are different programs, different providers.
2:02:40
To the greatest extent possible, we wanna share best practices, celebrate wins, and ensure that folks are, to the greatest extent possible, working with one city rather than 15 to 20 different, smaller entities.