[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR37.515]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 37_TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart E_Pre-Award Business Evaluation
 
Sec.  37.515  Must I do anything additional to determine the qualification of a consortium?

    (a) When the prospective recipient of a TIA is a consortium that is 
not formally incorporated, your determination that the recipient meets 
the standard at 32 CFR 22.415(a) requires that you, in consultation with 
legal counsel, review the management plan in the consortium's 
collaboration agreement. The purpose of your review is to ensure that 
the management plan is sound and that it adequately addresses the 
elements necessary for an effective working relationship among the 
consortium members. An effective working relationship is essential to 
increase the research project's chances of success.
    (b) The collaboration agreement, commonly referred to as the 
articles of collaboration, is the document that sets out the rights and 
responsibilities of each consortium member. It binds the individual 
consortium members together, whereas the TIA binds the Government and 
the consortium as a group (or the Government and a consortium member on 
behalf of the consortium, as explained in Sec.  37.1015). The document 
should discuss, among other things, the consortium's:
    (1) Management structure.
    (2) Method of making payments to consortium members.
    (3) Means of ensuring and overseeing members' efforts on the 
project.
    (4) Provisions for members' cost sharing contributions.

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    (5) Provisions for ownership and rights in intellectual property 
developed previously or under the agreement.

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