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A - 1 APPENDIX A - Glossary of Terms Closed Out â The contract end date has passed and implementation decisions have been made for all products Contractor/Contracting Agency â The agency contracted by the sponsor to perform the research. This could also be the state itself in the case of in-house research. Deliverable â A research product or a research report required of the contracting agency in the research contract Deliverable Completed â A product or report that has been delivered by the contracting agency and accepted by the sponsoring agency as completing the contract requirements Deliverable Deleted â The requirement for the product or report was removed from the project contract Deliverable Pending â A product or report which has not been entered into the system as either Completed, Implementing, Not Implementing, or Deleted. This is the default deliverable status. FY Program Budget â The total of all research project budgets plus the program overhead costs for that fiscal year Implementation â Use of a research product in a capacity outside of the research project which developed it Implementation Costs â The cost of implementing a specific research product Implementing â A product that has been delivered and accepted and that will be or has been used outside of the research project which developed it Not Implementing â A product that has been delivered and accepted but that will not be implemented by the sponsoring agency Pending Review â Product or project information entered or uploaded into RPM-Web by the contracting agency and that has not yet been approved by the sponsoring agency and therefore will not yet be included in any RPM-Web report Product/Research Product â A desired outcome of a research project which justified or helped justify the research project funding (examples: new/improved equipment, procedures, models, training courses or materials, findings, recommendations, software, design methods) Program â The group of research projects funded by one or more specific sponsoring agencies Program Budget â The total cost to the agency of all individual research projects plus the agencyâs program overhead cost Program Overhead Cost or Program Administrative Cost â The total of all costs to operate an agencyâs research program which are not specifically assignable to individual projects. The most common costs in this category are the salary and operational costs of the state transportation agencyâs research office. Project - A funded endeavor to produce research products
A - 2 Project Budget â The total cost of the research project as entered by the sponsoring agency into the RiP system. This is normally the total of all direct project costs and does not include a proportionate share of program overhead costs. Research Performance Measure (RPM) â A method of assessing the effectiveness or efficiency of the activities under a research project or program Research Report â Written documentation of the research work performed by the contracting agency to provide the research product(s) RPM Report â One of the pre-formatted reports provided by the RPM System. Most of the report formats have customization options. RPM System â RPM-Web plus RPM-Tools RPM-Toolsâ A CD-ROM containing a performance measurement tutorial; project and product data entry screens; project and product performance measurement calculation capability; and capability to generate a report for a single project RPM-Web â A web site with backend database containing a catalog of benefit calculation examples; product, project, program, and performance measure data entry screens; product, project and program-level performance measurement value calculation capability; and report generation capability Sponsor/Sponsoring Agency â The agency funding the research project or program Wizard â A series of questions to aid and identify in the selection of research performance measures for research programs and projects
