Higher Education Practice Overview
Serving over 130 top academic research institutions, we understand the challenges in achieving and maintaining compliance with federal OMB Circulars A-21, A-122, A-110 and A-133. Our professional staff delivers the highest level of consulting services to the academic research community, bringing a diverse team of experts with a broad array of experience across a universe of professions, including former higher education research directors and administrators, cost allocation specialists, facilities and administrative rate experts, and technology consultants.
Solutions to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Your Programs
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Consulting
MAXIMUS can help you navigate the complicated F&A process using our industry-leading software and consulting services. We can help you develop rate proposals, negotiate rates and conduct comprehensive space surveys that put your institution in position to maximize benefits while ensuring compliance. More...
Comprehensive Rate Information System (CRIS®)
Our Comprehensive Rate Information System (CRIS) provides a total solution for preparing F&A rate proposals. Updated annually, CRIS incorporates federal reporting requirements. More...
WebSpace® Survey Tool
WebSpace, our web-based A-21 compliant space survey tool, allows department administrators to efficiently and effectively conduct a space survey as part of the F&A rate proposal development. More...
Effort Reporting Diagnostics and Software (ERS)
Understanding the certification of effort is challenging for most institutions and the risks of non-compliance can be very high. We can help you develop effort-reporting policies, procedures and systems, or make improvements to your current effort reporting process or system in order to meet your requirements and budget. More...
Compliance/Risk Assessment (C/RA®)
Our comprehensive compliance and risk assessment solution helps institutions ensure full adherence with federal regulations and includes a confidential review that encompasses ten of the most cited areas of non-compliance, from direct charging to sub-recipient monitoring. More...
Pre- and Post-Award Services
MAXIMUS can help you with a variety of pre- and post-award consulting projects. We provide staffing and consulting solutions, sponsored program enterprise assessment and grant management, as well as business process analysis, improvement and mapping (BPI/BPM). We offer web-based and in-person training for research management, responsible research conduct and code of ethics. We also offer full self-paced reviews for the Certified Research Administrator (CRA) exam. More...