Re: Teaming Agreements and Funding Promises lisa-thompson 05 May 2004 22:06 EST
Could you share your Teaming Agreement with us? It helps if I can see current language in order to know what's missing or something that might help. Lisa ------------------- Lisa L. Thompson, CRA Director of Research and Sponsored Programs 600 South College Avenue Tulsa, Ok 74104 Telephone: 918/631-2716 Fax: 918/631-2073 E-mail: xxxxxx@utulsa.edu Friendly quote: "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world" -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On Behalf Of Ellen Reinsch Friese Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:24 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: [RESADM-L] Teaming Agreements and Funding Promises Dear Colleagues: As our faculty members' reputations grow, they are increasingly called upon to "team" with local contractors to develop competitive proposals, generally for the federal government. We enter into "Teaming Agreements" with these companies and make every effort to include language in those agreements that commits them, at least in "good faith," to fund our university's efforts if the application is successful. We have heard on a number of occasions from faculty who feel that they have been "used" by these kinds of arrangements, when the work was funded but the company was later unwilling or unable to support our particular statement of work. This has caused some hard feelings. We want to support these collaborative efforts, as there may be potential for lucrative funding for our faculty. We are considering some alternate language suggestions for future "Teaming Agreements," in the hopes that we can minimize the cases in which our faculty's contributions go unrewarded. Have any of you run into this kind of situation, and, if so, how have you handled it? If anyone has some more definitive language that they have used in "Teaming Agreements," our research office would certainly be happy to see it. Thank you for your assistance. Ellen Reinsch Friese ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================