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Money that carries conditions on how it is spent

Awards funded through federal programmes come with conditions on what may be bought and when. Checking those at the point of purchase is considerably easier than proving compliance with them afterwards.

Conditions checked at the requestEvidence filed by phase
The defining pressure

Conditions attached to the money

Purchasing against federally funded awards is not only about buying well. It is about buying within what that particular award permits, and being able to demonstrate it afterwards.

ProcureAudit Ineligible spend is caught while it can change
Outcome 01

Ineligible spend is caught while it can change

Permitted use and eligible period are both knowable when a purchase is raised. Checking then is the only moment the answer can still alter what happens.

What that meansFindings prevented rather than explained during reporting.
ProcureAudit Allocation is done by the person who knows
Outcome 02

Allocation is done by the person who knows

Splitting a cost across two awards is accurate when the requester sets it and a guess when finance reconstructs it from a supplier name and a date.

What that meansCost sits against the right award without a monthly reallocation exercise.
ProcureAudit Reporting becomes an export
Outcome 03

Reporting becomes an export

When every cost already carries its award and its supporting document, funder reporting is a filter rather than a month of collection.

What that meansReporting cycles that shorten instead of consuming the team.
Traditional handling against this approach

Where funded purchasing usually goes wrong

The failures here are rarely about buying badly. They are about the connection between a cost and the award that funded it.

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ProcureAudit Assigned afterwards
The challenge

Assigned afterwards

Finance allocates costs to awards at month end using the supplier, the date and a conversation, which produces a proportion of wrong answers nobody detects.

Assigned byFinance, later
BasisInference
AccuracyPartial
ProcureAudit Selected at the request
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Selected at the request

The person raising the purchase selects the award, because they are the only one who knows with certainty and they know it now.

Assigned byThe requester
BasisKnowledge
AccuracyHigh
ProcureAudit Checked at reporting
The challenge

Checked at reporting

Whether a cost was permitted and whether it fell inside the eligible window are both discovered when the report is prepared, long after the money left.

CheckedAt reporting
Can it changeNo
OutcomeAn explanation
ProcureAudit Checked at the purchase
With ProcureAudit

Checked at the purchase

Permitted use and period are both compared before approval, so an ineligible purchase is caught while it is still a proposal.

CheckedAt the request
Can it changeYes
OutcomeA decision
ProcureAudit In a shared drive
The challenge

In a shared drive

Supporting documents live separately from the cost, connected by a folder name, so a funder query starts with a search rather than an answer.

LocationA drive
Linked to costLoosely
Query responseSlow
ProcureAudit Attached to the phase
With ProcureAudit

Attached to the phase

The document that supports a cost sits in the phase it belongs to, so answering a query is a lookup.

LocationThe record
Linked to costDirectly
Query responseImmediate
ProcureAudit Apportioned by estimate
The challenge

Apportioned by estimate

A cost serving two programmes gets divided later using a rule of thumb, and the basis for that division is rarely written down anywhere.

SplitBy estimate
BasisNot recorded
DefensibleWeakly
ProcureAudit Split at the request
With ProcureAudit

Split at the request

The division is set when the purchase is raised, with the basis recorded alongside it.

SplitAt source
BasisRecorded
DefensibleYes
What reporting usually costs

Six steps that collapse into one

Healthcare • Walkthrough

Six steps that collapse into one

From several places, in whatever format they happened to arrive.

  • Collecting invoices
  • Allocating them to awards
  • Finding supporting documents
ProcureAudit Collecting invoices
01

Collecting invoices

From several places, in whatever format they happened to arrive.

ProcureAudit Allocating them to awards
02

Allocating them to awards

Afterwards, by somebody who was not present at the purchase.

ProcureAudit Finding supporting documents
03

Finding supporting documents

In email, in drives, or discovering they were never kept.

ProcureAudit Checking the period
04

Checking the period

Whether each cost fell inside the eligible window.

ProcureAudit Explaining exceptions
05

Explaining exceptions

Which means reconstructing a decision from memory.

ProcureAudit Producing the report
06

Producing the report

Which by then is mostly assembly rather than reporting.

FAQ

Questions from healthcare and life sciences teams

How are award conditions handled?
The funding source is identified on the record and the permitted use and eligible period are checked when the purchase is raised, which is the only point at which the answer can still change what happens.
Can a cost be split across two awards?
Yes, at the request, with the basis recorded. Splitting later by estimate is where most allocation error comes from.
What about spending outside the eligible period?
The period is checked alongside the permitted use. It is one of the more common findings and one of the easier ones to prevent entirely.
How does this help at reporting time?
Every cost already carries its award and its supporting document, so reporting becomes an export rather than a month of collection and cross checking.
Do you decide what our awards permit?
No. You record the conditions and the workspace checks purchases against them. Interpreting what an award allows remains your responsibility.
Can different awards carry different rules?
Yes. Checklist templates are built per award type, so an award with heavier conditions can require more evidence than a routine one.
Who selects the award on a purchase?
The person raising it, because they are the only one who knows with certainty at that moment. That single change removes most allocation error.
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Bring an award with awkward conditions

We will set the checks up on the call and run a purchase through them that should fail.

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