Preparation Exploration Negotiation Implementation
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Practitioner: It takes forever, get started soon!
Convergence: Agree that this is one thing you have in common and that your institutions' legal requirements and contracting language, along with donor flow-down language is a reality. Try to get your contracts teams started by discussing any issues with the boilerplate language while you sort out the SOW.
Questions Both Can Ask:
I’d like to be considered a scientific collaborator or co-PI and be integrally involved in project design and execution. Can our agreement be structured as a subaward?
Does your organization have templates for non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and sub-awards that our contracts team can review?
What is your organization’s process for developing, reviewing, and signing research contracts? How long does this process typically take?
How does your institution determine if a subaward is fixed-price or cost-reimbursable? Does your organization typically utilize one more often than the other?
What are your organization’s requirements for financial reporting?
If we are interested in bringing on additional partners, does your award permit the issuance of third-tier subawards?
We would prefer to include an exclusivity clause in our teaming agreement. Is this agreeable to your organization?
Does your institution have a DUNS number?
Is it worth exploring a MOU and/ or contract template between our institutions to facilitate future contracting?