Standards of Performance Provider must perform all Services required of it under this Agreement with that degree of skill, care, and diligence normally shown by a Provider performing services of a scope, purpose, and magnitude comparable with the nature of the Services to be provided under this Agreement. Provider acknowledges that, if in the course of providing Services hereunder, it is entrusted with or has access to valuable and confidential information and records of the Board, Provider agrees to be held to the standard of care of a fiduciary with respect to that information. Any review, approval, acceptance of Services or deliverables, or payment by the Board for any Services does not relieve Provider of its responsibility for the professional skill and care and technical accuracy of its Services and deliverables. This provision in no way limits the Board’s rights against Provider under this Agreement, at law or in equity. When and where applicable, all members of Provider’s staff must hold and maintain throughout the Term and any Renewal Term, valid certificates and/or licenses from the State of Illinois or such other relevant jurisdiction that authorize those individuals to perform the Services. Provider agrees to promptly furnish a copy of the license(s) of any and all direct service providers to the Board on request. Throughout the Term and any Renewal Term, Provider must maintain and use sufficient staff to assure the effective and efficient operation of its programs. Provider must cause its staff to devote such time, attention, skill, knowledge, and professional ability as necessary to effectively and efficiently fulfill Provider’s obligations under this Agreement.
Reviewing Contract Performance The Contractor shall work with the Authority to establish and maintain an effective and beneficial working relationship to ensure the Contract is delivered to at least the minimum required standard as specified in the Schedule (The Services).
Particular Methods of Procurement of Consultants’ Services 1. Quality- and Cost-based Selection. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph 2 below, consultants’ services shall be procured under contracts awarded on the basis of Quality and Cost-based Selection.
Other Methods of Procurement of Consultants’ Services The following table specifies the methods of procurement, other than Quality and Cost-based Selection, which may be used for consultants’ services. The Procurement Plan shall specify the circumstances under which such methods may be used.
(a) Quality-based Selection (b) Selection under a Fixed Budget
Strict Performance Failure by any party to this Contract to insist in any one or more cases upon the strict performance of any of the terms, covenants, conditions, or provisions of this Contract shall not be construed as a waiver or relinquishment of any such term, covenant, condition, or provision. No term or condition of this Contract shall be held to be waived, modified, or deleted except by a written amendment signed by the parties hereto.
Standard of Care; Performance of Employees Consultant shall perform all Services under this Agreement in a skillful and competent manner, consistent with the standards generally recognized as being employed by professionals in the same discipline in the State of California. Consultant represents and maintains that it is skilled in the professional calling necessary to perform the Services. Consultant agrees that all employees and subconsultants shall have sufficient skill and experience to perform the Services assigned to them. Finally, Consultant represents that it, its employees and subconsultants shall have all licenses, permits, qualifications and approvals of whatever nature that are legally required to perform the Services, including a City Business License, and that such licenses and approvals shall be maintained throughout the Term of this Agreement. As provided for in the indemnification provisions of this Agreement, Consultant shall perform, at its own cost and expense and without reimbursement from the City, any services necessary to correct errors or omissions which are caused by the Consultant’s failure to comply with the standard of care provided for herein. Any employee of the Consultant or its sub-consultants who is determined by the City to be uncooperative, incompetent, a threat to the adequate or timely completion of the Project, a threat to the safety of persons or property, or any employee who fails or refuses to perform the Services in a manner acceptable to the City, shall be promptly removed from the Project by the Consultant and shall not be re-employed to perform any of the Services or to work on the Project.
Contract Performance C19.1 The Contractor shall ensure that:
C19.1.1 the Goods conform in all respects with the Specification and, where applicable, with any sample or performance demonstration approved by the Authority;
C19.1.2 the Goods operate in accordance with the relevant technical specifications and correspond with the requirements of the Specification and any particulars specified in the Contract;
C19.1.3 the Goods conform in all respects with all applicable Laws; and
C19.1.4 the Goods are free from defects in design, materials and workmanship and are fit and sufficient for all the purposes for which such Goods are ordinarily used and for any particular purpose made known to the Contractor by the Authority.
Monitoring of Contract Performance The Contractor shall comply with the monitoring arrangements set out in the Monitoring Requirements Schedule including, but not limited to, providing such data and information as the Contractor may be required to produce under the Contract.
EVALUATING PERFORMANCE 7.1 The Performance Plan (Annexure A) to this Agreement sets out:
7.1.1 the standards and procedures for evaluating the Employee’s perfor- xxxxx; and
7.1.2 the intervals for the evaluation of the Employee’s performance.
7.2 Despite the establishment of agreed intervals for evaluation, the Employer may in addition review the Employee’s performance at any stage while the contract of employment remains in force.
7.3 Personal growth and development needs identified during any performance review discussion must be documented in a Personal Development Plan as well as the actions agreed to and implementation must take place within set time frames.
7.4 The Employee’s performance will measured in terms of contributions to the goals and strategies set out in the Employer’s IDP.
7.5 The annual performance appraisal will involve:
7.5.1. Assessment of the achievement of results as outlined in the perfor- xxxxx plan:
(a) Each KPA should be assessed according to the extent to which the specified standards or performance indicators have been met and with due regard to ad hoc tasks that had to be performed under the KPA.
(b) An indicative rating on the five-point scale should be provided for each KPA.
(c) The applicable assessment rating calculator (refer to paragraph 7.5.3. below) must then be used to add the scores and calculate a final KPA score.
Excuse for Nonperformance or Delayed Performance Except with respect to defaults of subcontractors, Contractor/Vendor shall not be in default by reason of any failure in performance of this contract in accordance with its terms (including any failure by Contractor/Vendor to make progress in the prosecution of the work hereunder which endangers such performance) if Contractor/Vendor has notified the Commission or designee within 15 days after the cause of the delay and the failure arises out of causes such as: acts of God; acts of the public enemy; acts of the State and any other governmental entity in its sovereign or contractual capacity; fires; floods; epidemics; quarantine restrictions; strikes or other labor disputes; freight embargoes; or unusually severe weather. If the failure to perform is caused by the failure of a subcontractor to perform or to make progress, and if such failure arises out of causes similar to those set forth above, Contractor/Vendor shall not be deemed to be in default, unless the services to be furnished by the subcontractor were reasonably obtainable from other sources in sufficient time to permit Contractor to meet the contract requirements. Upon request of Contractor, the Commission or designee shall ascertain the facts and extent of such failure, and, if such officer determines that any failure to perform was occasioned by any one or more of the excusable causes, and that, but for the excusable cause, Contractor’s progress and performance would have met the terms of the contract, the delivery schedule shall be revised accordingly, subject to the rights of the State under the clause entitled (in fixed-price contracts, “Termination for Convenience,” in cost-reimbursement contracts, “Termination”). (As used in this Paragraph of this clause, the term “subcontractor” means subcontractor at any tier).
