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Other Research Agreements

Find information about other research agreements and who to contact.

Incoming Service Agreements

When UC San Diego is being paid by another entity to provide services (not involving research).

For more information go to OCGA's Incoming Service Agreements page.

Contact: researchadmin@ucsd.edu

Outgoing Service Agreement

When UC San Diego is paying another entity to provide goods or services (not involving research).

These are handled by IPPS via Oracle

Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)

Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)

All MTAs are routed through the eMTA system.

OCGA’s MTA team is responsible for negotiating MTA terms for transfers with:

  • Materials coming into UCSD which do not include payment terms
  • All human, blood and tissue being sent out from UCSD

For more information go to OCGA's Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) About page.

Contact: MTAHelpDesk@ucsd.edu; (858) 246-3682

Outgoing Multi Campus Awards (MCAs)

Basically, an Outgoing Multi Campus Award is an outgoing subaward to another UC campus. This agreement is used when UC San Diego needs to send funding to another campus to conduct part of a research project.

For more information go to OCGA's Multi Campus Awards (MCAs) page.

Contact: researchadmin@ucsd.edu

Incoming MCAs

When UC San Diego needs to be paid for its portion of a research project being conducted at another UC campus (Prime Awardee).

These are handled at OCGA as standard Sponsored Research Agreements.

Outgoing Subawards

An outgoing research agreement for funding from UC San Diego to a collaborator where an intellectually significant part of the research will be conducted by the collaborator (Subrecipient).

For more information go to OCGA's Outgoing Subawards page.

Contact: researchadmin@ucsd.edu

Incoming Subawards

An outgoing research agreement for funding from a collaborator to UC San Diego where an “intellectually significant” part of the research will be conducted here at UC San Diego.

These are handled at OCGA as standard Sponsored Research Agreements.

Unfunded Agreements

An agreement where no funding is being exchanged, that is related to a prior, ongoing, or future research project.

Some examples include:

  • Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA/NDA)
  • Data Use Agreement (DUA)
  • Equipment Loan Agreement (ELA)
  • Software Licensing Agreement (SLA)
  • Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
  • Teaming Agreement (TA)
  • Unfunded Collaboration Agreement (UCA)

For more information go to OCGA's Unfunded Agreements page.

Contact: researchadmin@ucsd.edu

For more information contact the Client Experience team at researchadmin@ucsd.edu.