Common use of Goals & Objectives Clause in Contracts

Goals & Objectives. 1. The goal of this Agreement is for the Performer to investigate and build a BioFab that scales up molecules from proof of concept to market in less time and at less cost, as described under Scope above. The goal is to accomplish this by incorporating radical innovations into key modules at each stage of the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle as described in detail Amyris Proposal “Mgs to Kgs” dated February 3, 2015. The modules will be interdependent and align within an integrated pipeline. The foundation is a set of measurement technologies with various levels of risk. In addition to new algorithms for pathway prediction, data analysis and hypothesis generation, the BioFab’s testing and optimization of up to 450 molecules from a large metabolic space will require a paradigm shift from a high-throughput, single-molecule screening platform to a high throughput, molecule-agnostic screening platform that is predictive of performance to a large scale. To address the gaps in throughput, quality and scale, a testing platform that utilizes a tiered approach to promote strains will be developed. Although individual tiers exist in some form at various institutions and companies (including at the Performer), there is not a single platform that has managed to encompass all of them into a single pipeline at the proposed scale. 2. The Government will have continuous involvement with the Performer. The Government will also obtain access to research results and certain rights in Data and Subject Inventions pursuant to Articles VII and VIII. Government and the Performer are bound to each other by a duty of good faith and best research effort in achieving the goals of the Program. 3. This Agreement is an "other transaction" pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 2371. The Parties agree that the principal purpose of this Agreement is for the Government to support and stimulate the Performer to provide its best effort in advanced research and technology development and not for the acquisition of property or services for the direct benefit or use of the Government. The Performer will be paid a fixed amount for each Payable Milestone accomplished in accordance with the Payable Milestones and Corresponding Payment Schedule set forth in Attachment 3 and the procedures of Article V. The Parties agree that the amount payable to Performer for an accomplished Payable Milestone will be unaffected by whether Performer ends up expending more or less effort to accomplish such Payable Milestone than the Parties assumed would be required to accomplish it. This Agreement is not intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, by implication or otherwise, a partnership, a corporation, or other business organization.