ATP Proposal Preparation Kit, February 2004

Exhibit 12:
R&D WORK PERFORMED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
BY THE RECIPIENT OR SUBCONTRACTOR QUESTIONNAIRE

Title of Proposal:
Name of Submitting Organization:
Name of Company To Perform R&D Work Outside the United States:
Country Where Work Will Be Performed:

  1. Is the work to be performed outside the United States less technically challenging and lower risk relative to the work carried out in the United States? If no, please explain.

  2. Describe the impact on the economic benefits with and without the R&D being performed outside the United States.

  3. What is the percentage of the total ATP project for R&D performed outside the United States?

  4. What are the total dollars by organization for R&D performed outside the United States?

  5. 5. a. Explain how your organization made a good faith effort to identify alternatives to having this particular work performed outside the United States.
    b. Explain why those alternatives were less attractive (e.g., cost, schedule, insufficient interest, or commitment).

  6. Would the projected economic benefits to the United States be less likely to occur if the work outside the United States were not carried out at all, or if ATP insisted that the work be performed in the United States? Explain why.

  7. Does the facility proposing to carry out the work outside the United States bring to the project special expertise, extra resources, or other factors that would represent a substantial loss to the project were they not there? Explain.

  8. a. Is the company proposing to do work outside the United States U.S. owned? checkbox Yes checkbox No
    b. Does the company also have R&D and manufacturing facilities in the United States that would benefit from the project? Please describe.
    c. Who else would benefit?

  9. Will the company performing the work outside the United States agree to surrender intellectual property resulting from the work to a company incorporated in the United States?

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Date created: January 25, 2004
Last updated: January 29, 2004

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