University of California: California State University: contracts.

Existing law establishes the University of California (UC) as a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California. Employees of the UC provide instruction to students and conduct research at each of the 10 campuses of the UC, which are located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Existing law establishes the California State University (CSU) , under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the other segments of public postsecondary education in this state. This bill would require the Department of General Services, to negotiate and establish a model contract with standard contract provisions with both the regents and the trustees by July 1, 2010. The trustees would be required to, and the regents would be urged to, negotiate and establish with the Department of General Services the model contract applicable to their university by July 1, 2010. The bill would define the term contract to mean a research, training, or service agreement between the state and the UC or CSU, or a grant from the state to the UC or CSU for research, training, or service. The bill would require that, to the extent feasible, these standard contract provisions include, but not necessarily be limited to, provisions relating to specified legal issues. The bill would require that the standard provisions in a model contract agreed upon under the bill be used in contracts entered into between the UC or CSU and the state, unless both contracting parties mutually determine that a specific standard contract provision is inappropriate or inadequate for a specific contract. The bill would authorize the Department of General Services to use the services of any state agency, defined to include every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission, in implementing the bill. The bill would make the CSU and UC responsible for the Department of General Services' facilitation and associated support costs required to implement the bill.