Third-Party Requests

Guiding Principles for Partnerships with Third Parties

  • Partners should share UC Berkeley’s core values of excellence and access, and ethos of public-serving teaching, discovery, and innovation.
  • Any partnership should bolster the university’s mission in one or more ways, for example by giving faculty and students access to world-class experiences and resources not available at Berkeley or by bringing new resources to UC Berkeley.
  • The minimum set of criteria for a sustainable partnership includes faculty commitment of participation for the duration of the partnership and adequate funding and space to support partnership activities and costs at UC Berkeley for the duration of the partnership.
  • Partnerships and projects should not constrain site redevelopment. Safeguards:
  • Contracts must allow the campus to terminate or relocate activities with six months notice
  • 5 yr maximum term for new agreements with third parties, with possibility of extension (subject to review)
  • Per campus policy, all proposed capital projects that involve new construction on greenfield /brownfield parcels or that exceed $10M must approved by the Capital Planning Committee.
  • Remodeling projects under $10M do not need to go to CPC, provided the investor or academic unit is aware they may lose the space without compensation from campus if the site is redeveloped.

Coordinating Committee (ACC) for RFS

Purpose: Enable the university to respond in a timely manner to third-party inquiries/proposals for collaboration with UC entities that would involve significant renovations to one or more buildings, the infrastructure and/or land usage at RFS. 

Charge: 

  1. Receive information and inquiries from prospective non-academic partners, and provide responses consistent with university policy and the long-range development plan for RFS
  2. Vet and facilitate proposals to be submitted for formal approval by campus authorities as required by university policy.

Membership: 

  • College of Engineering (Tarek Zohdi, ADR) – ACC-RFS Chair
  • Environmental Health & Safety (Alicia Bihler, Director, Environmental Programs)
  • Procurement (Russ Chung, Chief Procurement Officer)
  • Academic Planning (Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, VPAP) 
  • Capital Strategies (Wendy Hillis, Campus Architect)
  • Research (Elizabeth Brashers, AVC)

Decision-Making Process for Third-Party Proposals

Step 1: Project proposals received by Justin Cocke (RFS Superintendent) & Tarek Zohdi (COE ADR)

Step 2: Initial review & feedback by ACC-RFS, considering guiding principles and alignment with GRIP 

Step 3: If project is deemed viable, then each ACC-RFS member consults their unit 

Step 4: ACC-RFS relays campus feedback to the proposers

Step 5: ACC-RFS vetted proposals are submitted to the VPAP

Step 6: Campus-level review and approval by Chancellor

Implementation of campus-approved projects is overseen by RFS management