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Standard Terms & Conditions For Supply Of Services Of Total Network Technologies Limited
1 DEFINITIONS
In this
document the following words shall have the following meanings:
1.1 "Agreement"
means these Terms and Conditions together with the terms of any applicable
Service Specification;
1.2 "Customer"
means the organisation or person who purchases services from the Supplier;
1.3 "Intellectual
Property Rights" means all patents, registered and unregistered designs,
copyright, trade marks, know-how and all other forms of intellectual property
wherever in the world enforceable;
1.4 "Service
Specification" means a statement of work, quotation or other similar
document describing the services to be provided by the Supplier;
1.5 "Supplier" means Total Network
Technologies Limited – Enterprise House, Dewing Road, Rackheath Industrial Estate, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 6PS.
2 GENERAL
2.1 These Terms
and Conditions shall apply to all contracts for the supply of services by the
Supplier to the Customer.
2.2 Before the
commencement of the services the Supplier shall submit to the Customer a
Service Specification which shall specify the services to be performed and the
fees payable. The Customer shall notify the Supplier immediately if the
Customer does not agree with the contents of the Service Specification. All
Service Specifications shall be subject to these Terms and Conditions.
2.3 The Supplier
shall use all reasonable endeavours to complete the services within estimated
time frames but time shall not be of the essence in the performance of any
services.
3 FEES AND
PAYMENT
3.1 The fees for
the performance of the services are as set out in the Service Specification.
The Supplier shall invoice the Customer for the services upon completion.
3.2 Invoiced
amounts shall be due and payable within 30 days of receipt of invoice. The
Supplier shall be entitled to charge interest on overdue invoices from the date when payment becomes due
from day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the
base rate of the Bank of England. In the event that the Customer’s procedures
require that an invoice be submitted against a purchase order to payment, the
Customer shall be responsible for issuing such purchase order before the
services are rendered.
3.3 Title for all goods shall remain with Total Network Technologies Limited until paid for in full
4 CUSTOMER’S
OBLIGATIONS
4.1 To enable the Supplier to perform
its obligations under this Agreement the Customer shall:
4.1.1 co-operate with the Supplier;
4.1.2 provide the Supplier with any information
reasonably required by the Supplier;
4.1.3 obtain all necessary permissions and
consents which may be required before the commencement of
the services; and
4.1.4 comply with such other requirements as may
be set out in the Service Specification or otherwise agreed between the
parties.
4.2 The Customer shall be liable to
compensate the Supplier for any expenses incurred by the Supplier as a result
of the Customer’s failure to comply with Clause 4.1.
4.3 Without prejudice to any other rights to
which the Supplier may be entitled, in the event that the Customer unlawfully
terminates or cancels the services agreed to in the Service Specification, the
Customer shall be required to pay to the Supplier as agreed damages and not as
a penalty the full amount of any third party costs to which the Supplier has
committed and in respect of cancellations on less than five working days’
written notice the full amount of the services contracted for as set out in the
Service Specification, and the Customer agrees this is a genuine pre-estimate
of the Supplier’s losses in such a case.For the avoidance of doubt, the Customer’s failure to comply with any
obligations under Clause 4.1 shall be deemed to be a cancellation of the
services and subject to the payment of the damages set out in this Clause.
4.4 In the event that the Customer or any
third party, not being a sub-contractor of the Supplier, shall omit or commit
anything which prevents or delays the Supplier from undertaking or complying
with any of its obligations under this Agreement, then the Supplier shall notify
the Customer as soon as possible and:
4.4.1 the Supplier shall have no liability in
respect of any delay to the completion of any project;
4.4.2 if
applicable, the timetable for the project will be modified accordingly;
4.4.3 the Supplier shall notify the Customer at
the same time if it intends to make any claim for additional costs.
5 ALTERATIONS TO THE SERVICE
SPECIFICATION
5.1 The parties
may at any time mutually agree upon and execute new Service Specifications. Any
alterations in the scope of services to be provided under this Agreement shall
be set out in the Service Specification, which shall reflect the changed
services and fees and any other terms agreed between the parties.
5.2 The Customer may at any time request
alterations to the Service Specification by notice in writing to the Supplier.
On receipt of the request for alterations the Supplier shall, within 5 working
days or such other period as may be agreed between the parties, advise the
Customer by notice in writing of the effect of such alterations, if any, on the
fees and any other terms already agreed between the parties.
5.3 Where the Supplier gives written notice
to the Customer agreeing to perform any alterations on terms different to those
already agreed between the parties, the Customer shall, within 5 working days
of receipt of such notice or such other period as may be agreed between the
parties, advise the Supplier by notice in writing whether or not it wishes the
alterations to proceed.
5.4 Where the Supplier gives written notice
to the Customer agreeing to perform alterations on terms different to those
already agreed between the parties, and the Customer confirms in writing that
it wishes the alterations to proceed on those terms, the Service Specification
shall be amended to reflect such alterations and thereafter the Supplier shall
perform this Agreement upon the basis of such amended terms.
5.5 The Supplier agrees that the Customer
may cancel or request for agreed services to be carried out at an alternative
date by informing the Supplier 72 hours beforehand. There will not be a
cancellation charge from the Supplier to the Customer in this instance. Failure
to give the required notice will result in the first days engineering time
being charged at the full rate.
5.6 Quotations are provided by the Supplier
as best endeavour estimates based on the Suppliers understanding of the
Customers requirements and can be no guarantee of the final costs involved.
Wherever possible installations are completed in accordance to the Suppliers
estimates to the Customer.
6 WARRANTY
6.1 The Supplier warrants that the services
performed under this Agreement shall be performed using reasonable skill and
care, and of a quality conforming to generally accepted industry standards and
practices.
6.2 Without prejudice to Clause 6.1, and
except as expressly stated in this Agreement, all warranties whether express or
implied, by operation of law or otherwise, are hereby excluded in relation to
the services to be provided by the Supplier.
7 INDEMNIFICATION
The Customer shall indemnify the Supplier against all claims,
costs and expenses which the Supplier may incur and which arise, directly or
indirectly, from the Customer’s breach of any of its obligations under this
Agreement, including any claims brought against the Supplier alleging that any
services provided by the Supplier in accordance with the Service Specification
infringes a patent, copyright or trade secret or other similar right of a third
party.
8 LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY
8.1 Except in respect of death or
personal injury due to negligence for which no limit applies, the entire
liability of the Supplier to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or
breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited
to the fees paid by the Customer to which the claim relates.
8.2 In no event shall the Supplier be liable
to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of
profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever.
This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or the
Supplier had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such
a loss.
8.3 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions
shall exclude or limit the Supplier’s liability for death or personal injury
resulting from the Supplier’s negligence or that of its employees, agents or
sub-contractors.
9 TERMINATION
Either party may terminate this
Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if:
9.1 the other party commits a material
breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being
remedied, fails to remedy it within 30 calendar days of being given written
notice from the other party to do so;
9.2 the other party commits a material
breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances;
9.3 the other party passes a resolution for
winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or
reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that
effect;
9.4 the other party ceases to carry on its
business or substantially the whole of its business; or
9.5 the other party is declared insolvent,
or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or
composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative
receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its
assets.
10 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
All Intellectual Property Rights produced from or arising as a
result of the performance of this Agreement shall, so far as not already
vested, become the absolute property of the Supplier, and the Customer shall do
all that is reasonably necessary to ensure that such rights vest in the
Supplier by the execution of appropriate instruments or the making of
agreements with third parties.
11 FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be liable for
any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure
results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including
but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the
act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications
carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, or the delay
or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment
or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its
obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such
events.
12 INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
The Supplier and the Customer are
contractors independent of each other, and neither has the authority to bind
the other to any third party or act in any way as the representative of the
other, unless otherwise expressly agreed to in writing by both parties. The Supplier
may, in addition to its own employees, engage sub-contractors to provide all or
part of the services being provided to the Customer and such engagement shall
not relieve the Supplier of its obligations under this Agreement.
13 ASSIGNMENT
The Customer shall not be entitled to assign its rights or
obligations or delegate its duties under this Agreement without the prior
written consent of the Supplier.
14 SEVERABILITY
If any
provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any
reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed
and the remainder of the provisions herein shall continue in full force and
effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or
unenforceable provision eliminated.
15 WAIVER
The failure by either party to enforce at any time or for any
period any one or more of the Terms and Conditions herein shall not be a waiver
of them or of the right at any time subsequently to enforce all Terms and
Conditions of this Agreement.
16 NOTICES
Any notice to be given by
either party to the other may be served by email, fax, personal service or by
post to the address of the other party given in the Service Specification or
such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the
other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be
deemed to be received on the day it was sent, if sent by fax shall be deemed to
be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, if given by letter
shall be deemed to have been served at the time at which the letter was
delivered personally or if sent by post shall be deemed to have been delivered
in the ordinary course of post.
17 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This
Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the
subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements,
undertakings or proposals, oral or written. Unless expressly provided elsewhere
in this Agreement, this Agreement may be varied only by a document signed by
both parties.
18 NO THIRD PARTIES
Nothing in this Agreement is intended to, nor shall it confer any
rights on a third party.
19 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties hereby
submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
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