Human Resources

Outsourcing Policy Carve Outs 

UC Riverside is committed to bringing in-house all covered services as defined by Article 5 of the University Collective Bargaining Agreement and Regents Policy 5402. As such, contracts that include covered services will only be allowed sparingly and will require demonstration that all other options to utilize or create career UC positions have been exhausted.

Exemptions to the policy will be rarely granted. Reduced cost is not an acceptable justification. By requiring wage and benefit parity in any contract for covered services, there will be no cost advantage to using contracted services in lieu of services provided by a UC Riverside employee.

Article 5 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement provided guidance for the Regents Policy 5402 that explains that contracting for covered services is only permitted when:

• Required by law, grants and/or court decisions.
• Needed to address an emergency.
• Not available at the location in sufficient quantity or expertise level.
• Incidental to a leased property.
• Urgent, temporary or occasional.
• Securing equipment, material or services the campus cannot feasibly provide, this can include work beyond 10 miles of campus.
• Performed in clinical operations to address short-term needs.

Contracting Out Requests

If you believe that your situation merits a carve out, you can request one by following the process outlined in the Contracting Out Process and submitting a request via the Human Resources Management System (HRMS). Please contact your Department SAA to request access to the HRMS.

Transitioning & Amending Current Contracts

UC is committed to protecting employees by insourcing functions and services whenever possible. In support of that goal, UC Riverside has identified a number of services that will be insourced. All outside supplier contracts authorized to continue must be amended to include the policy’s wage and benefit parity provisions. Parity is defined as the cost equivalent of the following:

• Annual and hourly salary at Step 1 of the salary range for the entry level of the comparable UC classification (or if not entry, the most junior classification)
• UC benefits for health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement that a UC employee performing the same duties would receive (applied as a percentage of salary)

Employment standards must be applied to contractors

If departments are given authority to contract for covered services, then the contractor must provide its employees with wages and benefits equivalent to those provided by the university.