Office of the General Counsel
Standard Contracts
Standard
contracts have been approved for use by the President, appropriate Vice
President, and the Office of the General Counsel. Using a standard
contract will greatly expedite the review and approval process. We have revised the contracts below so they are now "interactive", meaning you can type in the appropriate information and save and/or print the completed document. (Tips for using interactive forms.)
All the
standard contracts listed below are in Adobe
Acrobat Reader (.pdf format).
Criteria
for use of a standard contract:
- Existing
Standard Contract. If a standard contract exists for your
situation or agreement, please advise the contracting party that you
need to use the University's standard contract.
- Repeated
Use. University standard contracts exist for recurring situations
and agreements.
- OGC
Approval. Effective immeidately, if no changes or edits have been made to the contracts denoted with an asterick (*) below, these contracts should be reviewed, approved and signed by the Purchasing Director. A Banner requisition is required for each contract and the requisition number noted in the appropriate space in the contract before submitting to Purchasing.
If you use any other standard contract, it still needs
to be approved by the Office of the General Counsel prior to obtaining
any signatures. Our office will then forward the contract to the appropriate
authority for final review and signature.
- Contract
Changes. If the standard contract needs to be changed because
(1) terms of your understanding with the contracing party are not
covered by or are different from those contained in the standard contract;
or (2) the contracting party insists upon changes to the standard
contract; the user must have the revised contract
reviewed by the Office of the General Counsel.
- Customized
Contracts. If your department needs a customized contract,
please contact the Office of the General Counsel and one of our attorneys
will assist you.
- Current
Contracts. Please do not download standard contracts
for future use as the forms on this website will be revised and updated
from time to time. To ensure that you are using the most current contract,
please revisit the website each time you use a standard contract.
(You can verify that the contract version you are using is the most
current contract version by the date noted on the last page, lower
left corner.)
- Contract
Execution. Contracts must be signed by the appropriate authority
for the University in order to be legally valid and binding. In addition
to the President, other individuals have the authority to sign contracts
on behalf of the University as the result of the President's delegation
of such authority. If you are unsure who is the appropriate individual
to sign your contract, please contact the Office of the General Counsel
for guidance.
- Fully
Executed Contract. The Office of the General Counsel maintains
a database of all University contracts. Once your contract has been
signed by all parties, please forward a copy to our office, to the
attention of Stephanie Howell, for inclusion in our database.
- Contract
Intake Form. In order to expedite the contract review process,
the Office of the General Counsel has implemented a "Contract
Intake Form". Your cooperation in completing this form and
forwarding it to our office, along with your contract, will assist
us in expediting the contract process.
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