Title 32, Part 37 — Technology Investment Agreements

What does this part do?

Does this part cover all types of instruments that 10 U.S.C. 2371 authorizes?

What type of instruments are technology investment agreements (TIAs)?

For what purposes are TIAs used?

Can my organization award or administer TIAs?

May I award or administer TIAs if I am authorized to award or administer other assistance instruments?

Which other parts of the DoD Grant and Agreement Regulations apply to TIAs?

What are my responsibilities as an agreements officer for ensuring the appropriate use of TIAs?

What judgments must I make about the nature of the project?

To what types of recipients may I award a TIA?

What must I conclude about the recipient's commitment and cost sharing?

How involved should the Government program official be in the project?

What judgment must I make about the benefits of using a TIA?

May I use a TIA if a participant is to receive fee or profit?

What is the difference between an expenditure-based and fixed-support TIA?

When may I use a fixed-support TIA?

When would I use an expenditure-based TIA?

What are the advantages of using a fixed-support TIA?

Must I use competitive procedures to award TIAs?

What must my announcement or solicitation include?

Should my announcement or solicitation state that TIAs may be awarded?

Should I address cost sharing in the announcement or solicitation?

Should I tell proposers that we will not disclose information that they submit?

What must my pre-award business evaluation address?

What resources are available to assist me during the pre-award business evaluation?

What are my responsibilities for determining that a recipient is qualified?

Must I do anything additional to determine the qualification of a consortium?

What is my responsibility for determining that the total project funding is reasonable?

What is my responsibility for determining the value and reasonableness of the recipient's cost sharing contribution?

What criteria do I use in deciding whether to accept a recipient's cost sharing?

How do I value cost sharing related to real property or equipment?

May I accept fully depreciated real property or equipment as cost sharing?

May I accept costs of prior research as cost sharing?

May I accept intellectual property as cost sharing?

How do I value a recipient's other contributions?

Must I be able to estimate project expenditures precisely in order to justify use of a fixed-support TIA?

May I use a hybrid instrument that provides fixed support for only a portion of a project?

What must I do if a CAS-covered participant accounts differently for its own and the Federal Government shares of project costs?

What are my responsibilities for determining milestone payment amounts?

What is recovery of funds and when should I consider including it in my TIA?

Which administrative matters are covered in this subpart?

What is the general policy on participants' financial, property, and purchasing systems?

Must I tell participants what requirements they are to flow down for subrecipients' systems?

What standards do I include for financial systems of for-profit firms?

What financial management standards do I include for participants that are nonprofit?

What cost principles or standards do I require for for-profit participants?

Must I require a for-profit firm to use Federally approved indirect cost rates?

What cost principles do I require a nonprofit participant to use?

Must I include a provision for audits of for-profit participants?

Must I require periodic audits, as well as award-specific audits, of for-profit participants?

Who must I identify as the auditor for a for-profit participant?

Must I specify the frequency of IPAs' periodic audits of for-profit participants?

What else must I specify concerning audits of for-profit participants by IPAs?

Must I require nonprofit participants to have periodic audits?

Must I require participants to flow down audit requirements to subrecipients?

May I allow for-profit firms to purchase real property and equipment with project funds?

How are nonprofit participants to manage real property and equipment?

What are the requirements for Federally owned property?

What are the requirements for supplies?

What standards do I include for purchasing systems of for-profit firms?

What standards do I include for purchasing systems of nonprofit organizations?

Which administrative matters are covered in this subpart?

If I am awarding a TIA, what payment methods may I specify?

What should my TIA's provisions specify for the method and frequency of recipients' payment requests?

May the Government withhold payments?

Must I require a recipient to return interest on advance payments?

Must I require the recipient to obtain prior approval from the Government for changes in plans?

May I let a recipient charge pre-award costs to the agreement?

What requirements do I include for program income?

What general approach should I take in negotiating data and patent rights?

What data rights should I obtain?

Should I require recipients to mark data?

How should I handle protected data?

What rights should I obtain for inventions?

Should my patent provision include march-in rights?

Should I require recipients to mark documents related to inventions?

Should my TIA include a provision concerning foreign access to technology?

What requirements must I include for periodic reports on program and business status?

May I require updated program plans?

Must I require a final performance report?

How is the final performance report to be sent to the Defense Technical Information Center?

May I tell a participant that information in financial and programmatic reports will not be publicly disclosed?

Must I make receipt of the final performance report a condition for final payment?

How long must I require participants to keep records related to the TIA?

What requirement for access to a for-profit participant's records do I include in a TIA?

What requirement for access to a nonprofit participant's records do I include in a TIA?

What requirements do I include for termination and enforcement?

What are my responsibilities at the time of award?

What are my general responsibilities concerning the award document?

What substantive issues should my award document address?

How do I decide who must sign the TIA if the recipient is an unincorporated consortium?

What must I document in my award file?

Must I report information to the Defense Assistance Awards Data System?

To whom must I send copies of the award document?

What are my responsibilities generally as an administrative agreements officer for a TIA?

What additional duties do I have as the administrator of a TIA with advance payments or payable milestones?

What other responsibilities related to payments do I have?

What are my responsibilities related to participants' single audits?

When and how may I request an award-specific audit?

Advance.

Advanced research.

Agreements officer.

Applied research.

Articles of collaboration.

Assistance.

Award-specific audit.

Basic research.

Cash contributions.

Commercial firm.

Consortium.

Cooperative agreement.

Cost sharing.

Data.

DoD Component.

Equipment.

Expenditure-based award.

Expenditures or outlays.

Grant.

In-kind contributions.

Institution of higher education.

Intellectual property.

Nonprofit organization.

Participant.

Periodic audit.

Procurement contract.

Program income.

Program official.

Property.

Real property.

Recipient.

Research.

Supplies.

Termination.

Technology investment agreements.