Sponsored Award Review for university Workday Grants teams
The Sponsored Award Review is six working documents for university and research grants teams on Workday Grants, $1,950 for your whole institution, delivered by email within one business day. They test effort certification, award setup and cost-transfer evidence before an auditor asks. It also includes AwardSight, a browser tool that checks your effort, payroll and PAA records against each other and ranks what it finds by dollars at risk, and the Workday Grants video course, seven short videos with a final quiz.
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The Sponsored Award Review is a $1,950 set of six working documents that tests whether your sponsored awards in Workday would hold up under a federal audit.
It is built for sponsored programs, research finance and internal audit, and starts with the most common gap: payroll costing that misses the award.
Effort certifications, cost transfers and award setup that hold up when a sample request arrives.
Salary on the right award, burn rates that match reality, fewer surprise cost transfers.
Documents, a tool and a course, one license.
One $1,950 institution license covers all six documents, the AwardSight tool, the Workday Grants video course, unlimited internal users and twelve months of updates.
- 01Readiness workbookForty-four scored checks in seven domains, worth ninety-seven points, with a ranked gap list in about an hourXLSX
- 02Effort certification packAn eight-question defensibility test, a two-hour self-sampling protocol, and a printable worksheetPDF
- 03F&A reconciliation workbookYour tenant against your signed rate agreement, rate by rate and date by date, priced in both directionsXLSX
- 04Award statement specThe eight blocks a one-award report has to contain, a field-level source table, and six acceptance testsPDF
- 05Expenditure control guideBlock, Warn and Route design, rules by award tier, and all thirteen rules drafted ready to pastePDF · DOCX
- 06Response playbookThe first seventy-two hours of an audit request, how to answer a sampled item, and a request log that flags the third request on any itemPDF · XLSX
- 07AwardSightA browser tool to run monthly. It checks your Workday effort, payroll, PAA and PAR exports against each other, ranks what it finds by dollars at risk and drafts the payroll accounting adjustment file. Nothing is uploadedHTML
- 08Workday Grants video courseSeven short videos, about four minutes each, one common grants problem per module: salary on the wrong grant, payroll changed after certifying, cost share, access, cost to cash, closeout and amendments. A transcript under each and a final quizVIDEO
A pass you cannot evidence is not a pass.
A specimen institution six weeks before a sponsor review scored 50 of 97, banded At risk, with effort substantiation the weakest domain.
Every check asks two things: does the control pass, and do you hold the evidence today? A critical Pass with nothing behind it counts as an exposure, the same as a failure.
Every figure is checkable.
Every figure in the effort pack traces to a public HHS OIG audit report or work plan item, cited by number. Nothing comes from client engagements or Workday training material. In both OIG reports here, salary was most of the money at issue.
- $7,469,306 unsupported, $73,515 unallowableHHS OIG A-04-20-03583, 10 May 2024
- 6 of 31 sampled costs, $42,578, did not complyHHS OIG A-07-20-05127, 1 Jun 2023
- Review of higher-education NIH grantees, estimated to finish in FY2027OIG work plan SRS-A-25-014
The work plan item describes institutions holding NIH awards, not a count under audit, and the document says so. This is not an audit and produces no opinion.
It tells you what an auditor would look for and whether you could answer. If your award setup has to be rebuilt, it says so: fix it yourselves, use anyone, or ask for a fixed-fee quote.
Before you buy, in plain answers.
Who is the Sponsored Award Review for?
Research administrators, sponsored programs and research finance teams at universities and other institutions running Workday Grants. One license covers your whole institution.
What is included for $1,950?
Six working documents with unlimited internal users and twelve months of updates: a readiness workbook, an effort certification pack, an F&A reconciliation workbook, an award statement spec, an expenditure control guide and a response playbook, plus AwardSight, a browser tool that checks your Workday effort, payroll, PAA and PAR exports against each other, ranks what it finds by dollars at risk and drafts the payroll accounting adjustment file. Nothing is uploaded, and the Workday Grants video course, seven short videos with transcripts on common grants fixes (salary on the wrong grant, payroll changed after certifying, cost share, access, cost to cash, closeout and amendments) and a final quiz. There is a thirty-day refund, no questions.
How quickly do we get it, and can we pay by invoice?
The documents arrive by email within one business day. Bank transfer is at checkout, and if you need a PO and a W-9 first, ask for an invoice.
Is the price below the federal micro-purchase threshold?
Yes. Every published price is below the $15,000 federal micro-purchase threshold. Your own purchasing policy still applies, so check it before you buy.
Where do the figures come from?
Every figure in the effort pack traces to a public HHS OIG report or work plan item, cited by number. Nothing comes from client engagements or Workday training material.
Sponsored Award Review
The Sponsored Award Review costs $1,950, one time, for your whole institution.
- All six documents
- The AwardSight tool
- The Workday Grants video course
- Unlimited internal users
- Twelve months of updates
- Thirty-day refund, no questions
Not sure yet?
Run the free Effort Certification Review on your own export, or take fifteen minutes with us and hear if this is the wrong thing to buy.
Intuit handles payment and your card details never reach Mel. Bank transfer is at checkout and is usually easier for institutions. The documents arrive by email within one business day. Need a PO and a W-9 first? Ask for an invoice.
Fixed prices, paid by card or invoice. Nothing to negotiate and no sales cycle, so you can start this week. Your purchasing policy still applies; the FAQ covers thresholds and POs.