Common Contracts

Memorandum of Understanding

June 14th, 2010

• Filed
  June 14th, 2010

This Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) effective April 1, 2010 (“Effective Date”) is between the Institutions of the IceCube Collaboration (“Collaboration” or “Collaborating Institutions”) and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (“Host Institution”) (collectively the “Parties”). The University of Wisconsin-Madison is both a collaborating institution and the Host Institution for the centrally managed M&O activities. The purpose of this MOU is to define the relationship of the Collaboration and the Host Institution for the Maintenance and Operations (M&O) phase of the IceCube detector and to establish the distribution of responsibilities between the Parties for the execution of M&O activities. The Parties will jointly maintain and operate the IceCube detector which is located at the South Pole Station operated by the National Science Foundation (“NSF”). The Parties share the common goal of enabling the full exploit