The Government Subcontractor's Guide to Terms and Conditions

CHAPTER 7Non-DisclosureAgreement

Anon-disclosure agreement (NDA), also referred to as a confidential disclosure agreement (CDA) or confidentiality agreement (CA), is often identified in the terms and conditions of the contract. An NDA is defined as an agreement between parties for the handling and disposition of material, both verbal and written, that each party may consider separately as proprietary, but which they may have necessity or desire to disclose to each other over a specified period of time. In other words, an NDA is an agreement between two or more parties that helps protect their confidential information such as intellectual property, financial rates and factors, etc., from being used or distributed by the other party for purposes ...