Shared Resources Scheduling and Management System (SRS)SRS View Schedule

A Core Facility is a centralized, shared resource that provides access to instruments; technologies; services; cellular, animal, or human study support; and expert consultation to scientific investigators. National Institute of Health (NIH) funds a significant number of core facilities at hundreds of institutions throughout the United States.

Challenges for Core Facilities / Share Resources Management

  1. Resource sharing has become a necessity for modern scientific and healthcare research because of the increasing cost and complexity of instruments and facilities.
  2. Federal agencies have been increasing enforcement in appropriate use of grant resources.
  3. Share resources managers are facing a number of challenges to ensure that proper record keeping and usage charge structure meet with federal mandates.
  4. Income from NIH grant supported shared resources must be reported in the budget/financial statements accompanying annual progress reports and on the annual financial status report services.
  5. Maintain user logs for each shared resource and service and have them available at the site visit.

The Solution is the "SRS"

  • SRS is a web-based solution for managing shared resources / core facilities that streamlines the scheduling, accounting, and reporting processes.
  • SRS helps organizations in cutting costs and improving operating efficiency as well as maximizing the utilization of their shared resources.
  • SRS meets NIH policy guidelines relative to Core Facility income. It provides tools for managing account receivables and generating billing reports with a special capability in generating a Peer/Non-Peer Reviewed Research Fund Usage Report.
  • SRS eliminates all the paperwork and cumbersome bookkeeping that goes with managing shared resources. SRS transforms the cumbersome traditional processes of shared resources reservations and management into a 21st Century Web 2.0 based business operation paradigm.
  • SRS supports two types of services that the shared resources may provide to requestors:
    • Time-binding self-operating service. For example, equipment and instruments that charge fees based on use time.
    • Work order service. For example, sample and bio-statistical analysis which charge fees by sample count or per work order.
  • Under Web 2.0 Software as a Service model, SRS is licensed for use as services provided to organizations. C3Tech hosts SRS for organizations and eliminates the need for organizations paying for the expensive up-front costs in hardware, software, installation and maintenance.
  • SRS is a complete solution for shared resource management and streamlining the scheduling, accounting and reporting through two groups of users:
    • Users: the shared resource service requestors.
    • Administrations: administrator, facility manager, accounting manager, and technician.

Please contact info@thec3tech.com for more information about SRS.