Re: Declining to issue a subcontract renewal Marie Smith 16 Feb 2000 15:10 EST
You should have included a termination clause in the original contract. We have not renewed some of our subcontracts. As long as there is no provision for renewal in the original contract, we just let the term of the contract expire and do not issue an amendment. ____________________________________________ Marie F. Smith Manager of Grants Administration Institution of Ecosystem Studies PO Box AB, Route 44A Millbrook, NY 12545 (914) 677-5343 (phone) (914) 677-7508 (direct) (914) 677 5976 (fax) xxxxxx@ecostudies.org -----Original Message----- From: Laurie Chamness [mailto:xxxxxx@COFC.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 2:26 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Declining to issue a subcontract renewal Do any of you have experience in declining to issue a subcontract renewal award to a private company on a multi-year federal grant? If so, what justification to the private company, if any, is required on our part, in declining to issue the renewal? What are the possible legal ramifications regarding the private company's rights? We have a three year NASA grant on which we have issued a subcontract to a private company for the past 2 years. The relationship between our institution and the private company has deteriorated to the point where the PI would prefer not to issue the subcontract to the private company for Year 3 of the grant. This private company was named in the original grant proposal to NASA as a subcontractor for the 3 year grant period. Our PI does not want to hire the private company for Year 3, but he also wants to avoid the conflict of having to provide a legal justification to the company for not renewing the subcontract. Laurie -- Laurie P. Chamness Phone: (843) 953-4973 Assistant Director Fax: (843) 953-6577 Research & Grants Admin E-mail: xxxxxx@cofc.edu College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================