How to Work with Us

When the stakes are as high as they are in finding the answers to and funding some of our nation’s most pressing research challenges, independent and objective peer review can help ensure a robust and credible scientific research enterprise.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) coordinates the peer review process from beginning to end, planning, structuring, and fully executing multi-format reviews that involve hundreds of reviewers.

If you need to assess the scientific and technical merit of research proposals, if you need to ensure that scientific information is credible before distributing it, or if you need to know whether adequate progress is being made in ongoing research projects, we can help. And we want to talk to you.

Contact Us:

Tony Lester
peerreview@orau.org
865.576.3317

Contracting with ORAU

ORAU is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit enterprise that has been working with government agencies, universities, and corporate entities since 1946. We regularly team with a broad range of customers and partners to pursue opportunities of mutual interest. The following are ways in which you can establish a working relationship with us:

• Direct contract with ORAU
  • If you have a request for proposals that you’d like us to consider or if you have questions about how to obtain ORAU’s services, please contact ORAU Business Development.
    
    
• Work for Others agreement under ORAU’s contract to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Work performed for other agencies under this contract is subject to DOE approval, must adhere to the requirements of the Economy Act, must be consistent with or complement the missions of DOE and ORISE, and must not place ORISE in direct competition with the private sector.