Service Centers

Stanford has schools or departments which operate facilities or research lab as a self-sustaining “businesses” that provide on-going products or services in support of the University’s teaching and research functions. These service centers, which may support departments or the entire campus, provides cost savings via services / products to internal Stanford users and on a very limited basis will provide services / products to users external to Stanford. Service Centers must recover their operational costs annually through rate(s) to users based on an approved budget & approved rate(s).

A list of the current service centers and their contacts, plus the list of corresponding RAPC/CMA analysts for any questions you might have is available on the web.

NEWS:

July 2009

FY09 Year End Close Calendar is available on the FIRS Year End Close website. It lists the Soft and Hard Close dates for year end processing in September. The schedule is subject to change and includes a weekend hard close date. Note that it is unlikely that Approvers and End Routers will be available to approve journals on Saturday.

As usual, both close weeks are on a tight schedule. Please refer to Exhibit F and Exhibit G of the Service Center Policy Manual for further information.

Please note these various close dates before planning your September vacation.

The FY10 budget and proposed rates should be submitted to RAPC/CMA between August 1st and September 30th. The submission time frame is dictated by University policy. See Exhibit H of the Service Center Policy Manual for further information.