Dear Colleagues:

Although we have had many awards from various national labs, we have
just recently had a couple of occasions where we are the prime awardee
and a national lab is the subcontractor or collaborator.  When a
national lab was our actual subcontractor, we "negotiated" a DOE Works
for Others (WFO) agreement.

Now that we are the prime awardee and a national lab is a collaborator
which received its money directly from DOE for the project, we are being
told by the lab that we must enter into a CRADA with them to cover their
work under this project.  Our prime award from DOE says that we are
responsible for the work done by the collaborator, the national lab.

Have you been in this situation?  If so, have you been able to
negotiate some kind of agreement other than a WFO or CRADA?  If you
ended up with a CRADA, were you successful in negotiating the terms of
this agreement?

Any input will be appreciated.

Steve Etheredge

R. Steven Etheredge
Director, Pre-Award Services
Sponsored Awards Management
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-4457
(803) 777-4136 fax
xxxxxx@gwm.sc.edu

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