FY17-FY21 Capital Plan Submission and CPATH Enhancements

January 21, 2016

Capital plan submissions will be due using CPATH by end of day on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.  FCI submissions should be emailed to Garry Cuneo (garry_cuneo@harvard.edu) or Missy Reed (missy_reed@harvard.edu ).  Guidelines for this year’s capital plan narratives will be sent separately to each School/Unit directly; narratives will be due after submission of the capital plans.

New enhancements and reports in CPATH, some of which will help in preparing the upcoming Plan, include the following:

  • Reduction in required fields for Years 2 – 5 projects and for Aspirational projects
  • Ability to edit projects at the plan level in a spreadsheet view will be available in February
  • CPATH is now updated with the status of CAPS projects at 12:20PM every afternoon, in addition to 4:00AM every morning; this will allow for projects initiated in CPATH (i.e. PP Initiate) in the morning to be available in CAPS the same day in the afternoon
  • Ability to switch projects directly from the Project Information tab
  • Plan to Actual Spending Report – available for FY12 through FY15 and can be found on the Reports menu
  • Open Projects Report - a Project Manager column has been added
  • The ability to create Monthly Executive Reports in CPATH is now available;  MERs are due to HPPM monthly for all projects of $5M or more, but can be used internally by Schools/Units to prepare a one page summary of one or more projects

Please contact the IT Help Desk (617-495-7777 or ithelp@harvard.edu) for CPATH technical matters or CAPS/HPPM with business issues/questions. User feedback on the CPATH and CAPS applications is always appreciated.

See also: Live, CPATH, January 2016