[Ficore-legal] FI-CORE CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT - IBM

Galit Leider GALITL at il.ibm.com
Tue Sep 30 18:17:49 CEST 2014


Dear Luis, 

Many thanks for distributing the second phrase and for changing the 
financial section to be more comfortable to the parties. 

Attached please find IBM comments. 
In general, this draft looks very good to us. In the interest of time, we 
have limited our comments to very few changes or small edits. 

I understand from your mail that we need to close the CA asap, so the 
parties will be able just after that sign the accession form and send it 
by October 15.

Just one pointer - we have a holiday in Israel from October 8 to October 
18. Both Suzanne and I are on vacation during that period.
Therefore, we would appreciate if we have a conference call in the next 
week and close the CA before October 8. We will make ourselves available 
for such a phone call. 



Thanks again and kind regards,
Galit

Galit Leider (LL.B ,MBA)
Senior  Contracts Professional 
Contracts Team Leader
IBM Haifa Research Lab
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From:   Veda Young <Veda.Young at neclab.eu>
To:     LUIS GARCIA GARCIA <luis.garciagarcia at telefonica.com>, 
"ficore-legal at lists.fi-ware.org" <ficore-legal at lists.fi-ware.org>, 
Cc:     "ppp-tf-proposal at tid.es" <ppp-tf-proposal at tid.es>
Date:   30/09/2014 06:07 PM
Subject:        Re: [Ficore-legal] FI-CORE CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT
Sent by:        ficore-legal-bounces at lists.fi-ware.org



Dear Luis, 
Thank you for providing a second version of the CA. I apologize for the 
delay in sending our remarks. 
Please note that we have added our remarks to the commented CA-Version 2 
submitted on September 26, 2014 by Robert Sarrazin (Orange). I assume that 
certain outstanding issues (e.g., open source aspect) will be further 
clarified/discussed amount the parties.
We appreciate everyone?s efforts for finding workable solutions.
Best regards,
Veda
 
 
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mailto:ficore-legal-bounces at lists.fi-ware.org] On Behalf Of LUIS GARCIA 
GARCIA
Sent: Mittwoch, 24. September 2014 15:36
To: ficore-legal at lists.fi-ware.org
Cc: ppp-tf-proposal at tid.es
Subject: [Ficore-legal] FI-CORE CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT
 
Dear partners:
 
Thanks for your comments to the initially proposed agreement. Attached you 
will find the second version of the FI-CORE Consortium Agreement in which 
we´ve tried to include most of your inputs.
 
The main modification we´ve included is referred to the Payment Clause:
 
As many partners have expressed their concern about this clause (specially 
SMEs) and FI-CORE is a 24th month project, we have suppressed the ?two 
tranches systems? that worked in FIWARE (36 months). Accordingly, both the 
pre-financing and the Interim Payment will be paid 100% by the Coordinator 
not later than thirty (30) days from their receipt. 
 
At the same time, and to protect the Consortium from the eventual risks 
associated to this new payment method, we´ve included several rules to 
ensure that certain reimbursements, in some specific cases, are done on 
time by the relevant partners.  Together with these ?reimbursement 
security measures? we´ve included the rules to make additional payments, 
in certain situations, to new partners joining the Project (i.e. through 
the Open Call) or to partners that have increased their budget/effort in 
the project.
 
We hope that this new wording is acceptable for all of you
 
Together with the above mentioned modification, we´ve maintained the 
possibility of delaying the payment (now only referred to the Interim 
Payment) in those cases in which the Coordinator ?determined within such 
thirty (30) days period, based on internal reviews, results of review of 
the EC, milestones fulfillment, and confirmation of the relevant 
work-package leaders, that a Party has materially failed to meet its 
delivery milestones as defined in Annex 1 of the GA?. 
 
Our experience shows that it is not practical at all to refer this 
decission to the Board, as Board decisions require a long time, excessive 
for the daily management needs of the Project. Notwithstanding, and to 
avoid any arbitrary decision of the Coordinator, the CA clearly 
establishes that in case that the affected party objects,  ?the final 
decision will be taken by the Board according to the provisions of clause 
3.3.2.4.?
 
 
***********
 
We kindly invite to check this new version and to send your comments 
before next Monday 29th. Please, try to minimaze them as we must conclude 
this agreement within the 45 days following the signature of the Grant 
Agreement (signed by the Commission last 16th September). As soon as we 
collect all the comments received up to that date, we´ll prepare a new 
version and convene a Conference Call to definitively close any pending 
issues that may still be open.
 
Don´t forget to send me your heading and contact details for the CA¡
 
Thanks and regards
 
Luis García García
Telefónica I+D 
Asesoría Jurídica // Legal Department
Distrito T, Edificio Oeste 1, 6ª planta
Ronda de la Comunicación s/n
28050- Madrid (Spain)
 
 


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