## IV.7.4. Fixed-price Contracts 

IV.7.4.1. Informatics Services shall be provided at a fixed price when the Parties agree in the specific contract that an overall sum, which must be justified using the agreed daily rates in the framework contract, is to be paid following express acceptance of the work by the contracting authority. 

IV.7.4.2. The work shall be undertaken by the contractor in accordance with the specifications set out in the specific contract. The specifications shall comprise in particular a description of the work, the timetable, reports, standards, reference manuals and details of the results and deliverables required. 

IV.7.4.3. Each result and deliverable shall be subject to acceptance by the contracting authority, in order to ensure conformity with the specifications. The acceptance period will run up to a maximum of seventy-five (75) Normal working days from the day of signature of a Consignment note . During this acceptance period, the contracting authority may notify any defaults in the result or deliverable to the contractor by a Means of communication . As from the date of such notification, the running of the acceptance period will be suspended up to the date on which the contractor notifies by a Means of communication that it has remedied the notified default, which date will reinitiate the acceptance period for the rest of the seventy-five (75) Normal working days period, with a guaranteed minimum period of twenty-five (25) Normal working days after the last notification by the contractor that it has remedied a default. Upon successful expiration of the acceptance period, the contracting authority will sign a Certificate of Conformity as stated in Article I.1 of the General Conditions for each delivered result or deliverable. If no Certificate of Conformity has been issued at the end of the acceptance period and no default is pending, the contracting authority is considered as having accepted. 

## IV.7.5. Stability of Services 

IV.7.5.1. Prior to any specific contract, t h e c o n t r a c t i n g a u t h o r i t y and the contractor shall exchange the information needed for the Informatics Services to be provided. Throughout the term of the framework contract they shall maintain the required level of information and make it available to the other party for the purpose of providing the Informatics Services . The updating of information shall not give rise to any payment. 

IV.7.5.2. In accordance with Article II.4.2 of the General Conditions, throughout the term of the framework contract the contractor shall ensure that a stable service is maintained as required for the proper implementation of the specific contracts. 

IV.7.5.3. When a change of staff or Informatics Services is agreed by the parties there should be a ten- day period of adjustment when both the replacement and original personnel should work side by side for training and transfer of relevant information. The costs of this period of adjustment shall be borne by the contractor. 

In no event shall the contractor be able to plead a change of staff as a reason for not meeting any of its obligations, in particular with regard to deadlines and quality. 

IV.7.5.4. In the case of a time and means framework contract, t h e c o n t r a c t i n g a u t h o r i t y must be notified in advance of staff changes and reserves the right to refuse them. The contractor agrees to organise these changes at no extra cost for the contracting authority and to provide for a transition period necessary for the outgoing staff to duly instruct and train the incoming staff. 

## IV.7.6. Timetable 

