Negotiation of Agreements
- When RAS reviews Agreements the main areas of concern are:
- Publication Restrictions
- Foreign National Restrictions
- IP Rights/Ownership
- Federal Contracting Clauses – “the FAR”
- Overall Risk to the Institute by accepting awards terms
- For example cost implications, deliverable requirements
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- Most Grants received by MIT direct from the Federal Government fall under previously negotiated terms that have been agreed to by the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) *
- There is no negotiation involved with Federal Demonstration Partnership/ Research Terms and Conditions (FDP/RTC)
- Check the Federal Terms and Conditions
- MIT also receives Grants from Sponsors who have been funded by Federal Agencies. Often these grants contain the FDP/RTC terms and no negotiation is required
- There are instances where Sponsors add their own troublesome terms that need to be negotiated out by RAS
* NOTE: Updates to this section to be provided upon finalization of FDP/RTC terms by the Federal Agencies as they relate to Uniform Guidance. Please see link below on Uniform Guidance.
- Most Grants received by MIT direct from the Federal Government fall under previously negotiated terms that have been agreed to by the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) *
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- Most Federally-funded cooperative agreements contain terms acceptable to MIT. There is very little negotiation of these terms
- There are instances where Sponsors add their own troublesome terms that need to be negotiated out by RAS
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- Require a large amount of negotiation
- Areas of concern are:
- Publication Restrictions
- Foreign National Restrictions
- IP Rights/Ownership
- Approval of Work Product
- Security Issues and Access Requirements
- Federal Contracting Clauses – “the FAR”
- Overall risk to the Institute by accepting awards terms
- Examples: cost implications, deliverable requirements, proposed contract type