Case Record Storage and Retrieval Services RFP (Part I)

APPENDIX A: SAMPLE CONTRACT
1. Pay to the County any difference between the contract
amount and what the County’s costs would have been if
the contract had been properly awarded;
2. In addition to the amount described in subdivision (1),
be assessed a penalty in an amount of not more than
10 percent of the amount of the contract; and
3. Be subject to the provisions of Chapter 2.202 of the Los
Angeles County Code (Determinations of Contractor
Non-responsibility and Contractor Debarment).
The above penalties shall also apply to any business that
has previously obtained proper certification, however, as a
result of a change in their status would no longer be
eligible for certification, and fails to notify the state and
Internal Services Department of this information prior to
responding to a solicitation or accepting a contract award.
9.3 Ownership Of Materials, Software And Copyright
9.3.1 County shall be the sole owner of all right, title and interest,
including copyright, in and to all software, plans, diagrams,
facilities, and tools (hereafter "materials") which are
originated or created through the Contractor’s work
pursuant to this Contract. The Contractor, for valuable
consideration herein provided, shall execute all documents
necessary to assign and transfer to, and vest in the County
all of the Contractor’s right, title and interest in and to such
original materials, including any copyright, patent and trade
secret rights which arise pursuant to the Contractor’s work
under this Contract.
9.3.2 During the term of this Contract and for five years
thereafter, the Contractor shall maintain and provide
security for all of the Contractor’s working papers prepared
under this Contract. County shall have the right to inspect,
copy and use at any time during and subsequent to the
term of this Contract, any and all such working papers and
all information contained therein.
9.3.3 Any and all materials, software and tools which are
developed or were originally acquired by the Contractor
outside the scope of this Contract, which the Contractor
desires to use hereunder, and which the Contractor
considers to be proprietary or confidential, must be
specifically identified by the Contractor to the County’s
Contract Administrator as proprietary or confidential, and
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