Schedule of Events Coast Attribution Tool

The Schedule of Events Coast Attribution Tool (SoECAT) is for use with non-commercial research studies in the four UK nations.  Its primary purpose is to ensure that site-level costs are appropriately attributed according to AcoRD principles at the time of application for research funding and to ensure that site level Research Costs are met via that funding, but it also has several other roles and functions:

• SoECAT functions as a cost attribution template but is not intended primarily as a study costing tool.

• If completed at the research funding application stage, it should also form part of the IRAS application document set (in place of the IRAS Schedule of Events) where the research is to take place in or through the NHS or Health and Social Care (HSC);

• If submitted in IRAS, as above, it should form part of the UK Local Information Pack, which the sponsor shares with participating NHS/HSC organisations to support the arranging of local capacity and capability.

• It provides the Excess Treatment Cost (ETC) per participant value, which in some UK nations informs ETC processes.

• In forming part of the submission package for research funding and, where this is the case, replacing the IRAS Schedule of Events in the IRAS submission and UK Local Information Pack, the SoECAT introduces greater consistency and streamlining across the funding, planning and site set-up stages of a project.

We can help with the entire cost attribution process. Contact us ASAP, as soon as you know you need a SoECAT, Validation can take 10 days or in some cases longer, so contact us as soon as possible. 

Further information about SoECAT is available from the NIHR 

Templates of the latest version of the SoECAT are available from the NIHR:

Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Template A (SoECAT)

Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Template B (SoECAT)