The RSO website now has information about University policies and procedures regarding confidentiality agreements and research agreements with industry. The website also contains information about what are the important and sometimes controversial issues raised in research contracts. Whenever possible, the standard University documents should be employed. Questions about specific contracts should be addressed to Sponsored Projects Administration.
Projects are billed for the time personnel directly devote to a specific project.
The advantages to investigators are that they pay only for time they actually use, have access to a pool of highly skilled and experienced research personnel, and avoid the hassle of recruiting. Multiple RSO staff members may contribute to a single project, providing a diversity of abilities not otherwise readily available, especially to smaller projects. As an ISO, our business plan has been reviewed by the controller s office to ascertain that our fees are based upon reasonable costs. Because the salaries for RSO staff are based upon AHC compensation scales, the actual cost to research projects is not really different compared with hiring one s own complete research staff. Contact the RSO director or associate director for questions.