Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement
This guidance explains what a Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement (CDA) is, sometimes referred to as a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
What is a CDA?
CDAs are legal agreements that are often used in commercial contract research to govern the sharing of confidential information from the commercial sponsor to the prospective participating organisations. By signing the agreement you are promising not to share confidential information about the study outside of the parties defined in the agreement.
What is the CDA Process?
If you have expressed interest in a study and the sponsor is interested in finding out more about the feasibility of their study being delivered at your site, they will likely ask you to sign a CDA.
Execution of the CDA is usually required before the sponsor or CRO will share confidential information about the study with you, such as the protocol.
Resources
If you are not sure whether the CDA you have been asked to sign contains the correct information, you can reference the HRAs model CDA.
If the sponsor is not based in England or Wales, you may need to check that the CDA refers to the laws of England and Wales, not the laws of the country where the sponsor is based.