BARC is a strategic initiative that involves collaboration between Boeing engineers, UW College of Engineering faculty and students, and researchers from various disciplines at UW to tackle the challenges and opportunities in aircraft manufacturing.
In support of the collaboration, under the BARC umbrella, UW and Boeing have partnered with the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), CoMotion, and the College of Engineering to establish a UW-Boeing Proposal and Contracting Process. This new process aims to have a more direct workflow with a dedicated UW focal for coordination with mechanisms to approach complexities of the collaboration. Overall, the new process includes the following main steps:
- Boeing sends UW Focal SOW and draft project agreement; UW Focal shares with PI and explains the contracting process. PI’s grants manager is CCed on communication for their awareness.
- PI reviews the SOW and fills in project agreement
- BARC Program Manager works with PI to prepare budget and justification.
- BARC Program Manager creates and routes eGC1.
- Once OSP approves eGC1, UW Focal returns budget, justification, and project agreement to Boeing for their review.
- Boeing reviews and approves budget and returns partially signed project agreement to UW Focal.
- BARC Program Manager routes an Award Setup Request (ASR) with partially signed project agreement.
- As part of ASR process, OSP gets all UW signatures and returns fully signed project agreement back to Boeing
Please reach out to the UW Focal Point for details at tbc-collab@uw.edu.