Creating a budget in clinical research is very detailed, organized and specific towards each individual clinical research trial. When coming up with a budget you need to know what your limit is and stick to it. Negotiating a budget can be difficult, both sides need to collaborate and discuss the necessary and reasonable funds for the trial. There are limits to a budget which include no construction, travel is limited, and overall cost can’t exceed a set limit. (1, 3)
It is important to develop a strategy through the whole negotiation process for a trial budget. Clinical trial budgets are very detailed, even down to the "nickel and dime" costs like copy machine ink. It is important to include all costs of a budget – study costs, patient cost, and miscellaneous costs. Having a strategy planned out and making sure everything is organized and covered will help when making a proposal to whoever funds the study. A budget proposal needs to be fair when covering study costs, otherwise if the budget is too overpriced the negotiations will go awry.
If the cost is higher than the sponsor’s proposal the researcher should be ready to justify the study costs. For some Institutions policy requires that salary sources match, thus PI salary fringe must come from the same source and the institution will take it regardless. The sponsor may not be aware of services specific to your institution, be prepared to provide an explanation of these services. If rates are capped be prepared to be flexible in other areas of the budget requirements.
Many sponsors give the negotiating person or CRO areas in the budget that can be negotiated and areas that cannot. Some sponsors have an upper % that the budget can be ...
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... is going on. Slowly come to a compromise with the sponsor, be nice and cooperative, and be prepared to compete for a fair settlement. (1, 4)
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In all of the above negotiations, both parties could have created more values if we understood the big picture (broad rather than narrow goals) and manage the negotiation process by understanding what is really important and when negotiation is ready to move on to the next phase. In my own negotiations, especially at work with the inter-departmental meetings, I tried to be consciously aware when I started to drill down into detail very quickly, and tried to pull myself back to consider big picture, underlying concerns and motivations, and not on the detail. I learned that by focusing on interests rather than positions left me out of the need of being competitive in order to win the arguments and allow me to read where the negotiation is on the train journey, resulting in better outcomes for both parties.
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Coleman, C. (2005). The ethics and regulation of research with human subjects. 3–50.50 Code of Federal Regulations, 46(102).
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