Battelle -- the contracting organization that operates PNNL -- "allows flextime, which really helps a lot when an emergency comes up, when a nanny or day care isn't available, or a baby is sick," writes Xiao-Ying Yu, an atmospheric scientist at PNNL in Richland and the mother of a 1-year-old.
There are legal difficulties when an American university wishes to accept contracts from some entities, especially the federal government, so the second organization is a contracting organization.
It is assumed that the client, or his consultant, carries out the preliminary routing and includes the information in a tender specification such that competitive tenders may be received from a variety of design and construct contracting organizations.
Canceling the contract, organization officials say, will cost them at least $425,000, about a third of the group's operating budget.
This paper attempts to develop concepts of project and contract organization to predict the selection of contract type on infrastructure projects.
This was carried out by a contracted organization called Sprakab.
In addition, the contract organization manages the intellectual property that results from research.
The IDC later became the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, which currently serves as the sole contract organization for all Georgia Tech faculty and departments.
Another, less publicized, reason was that Georgia Tech would gain access to the contract organization's reserve fund, which was said to be over $1 million $$ million in ).
The IDC was created as a non-profit contract organization for the EES, which allowed the EES to receive federal contracts while still retaining its relationship with Georgia Tech and the State of Georgia.
In 1955, the Rich Electronic Computer Center, a new wing on the Hinman Research Building, was dedicated; the project was paid for by $85,000 US$$ in ) from the Rich Foundation and a matching grant from the EES's contract organization.
