Security Acknowledgment Form. The Vendor must sign the Security Acknowledgement Form, which is attached to this MSA as Attachment C. Before work on a SOW may begin, the signed Security Acknowledgement form must be approved by BIT and the approval must communicated to the Vendor. This form constitutes the agreement of the Vendor to be responsible and liable for ensuring that the Vendor and its employees and subcontractors participating in the work will abide by the policies found within the ITSP. Failure to abide by the requirements of the ITSP or the Security Acknowledgement form is considered a breach of this MSA and any applicable SOW. The Vendor is required to submit a new signed Security Acknowledgment Form when a new employee or subcontractor begins work on the project after the original Form is approved by the State; failure to do is a breach of this MSA and applicable SOW. The State reserves the right to require the removal of an employee or subcontractor from the project covered by a SOW if that employee or subcontractor violated any requirement of the ITSP.
Security Acknowledgment Form. The Vendor will be required to sign the Security Acknowledgement Form which is attached to this Agreement as Exhibit . The signed Security Acknowledgement Form must be submitted to the State and approved by the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications and communicated to the Vendor by the State contact before work on the contract may begin. This Security Acknowledgment Form constitutes the agreement of the Vendor to be responsible and liable for ensuring that the Vendor, the Vendor’s employee(s), and subcontractor’s, agents, assigns and affiliated entities and all of their employee(s), participating in the work will abide by the terms of the Information Technology Security Policy (ITSP) attached to this Agreement. Failure to abide by the requirements of the ITSP or the Security Acknowledgement Form can be considered a breach of this Agreement at the discretion of the State. It is also a breach of this Agreement, at the discretion of the State, if the Vendor does not sign another Security Acknowledgement Form covering any employee(s) and any subcontractor’s, agent’s, assign’s, or affiliated entities’ employee(s), any of whom are participating in the work covered by this Agreement, and who begin working under this Agreement after the project has begun. Any disciplining of the Vendor’s, Vendor’s employee(s), or subcontractor’s, agent’s, assign’s, or affiliated entities’ employee(s) due to a failure to abide by the terms of the Security Acknowledgement Form will be done at the discretion of the Vendor or subcontractors, agents, assigns, or affiliated entities and in accordance with the Vendor’s or subcontractor’s, agent’s, assign’s, and affiliated entities’ personnel policies. Regardless of the actions taken by the Vendor and subcontractors, agents, assigns, and affiliated entities, the State will retain the right to require at the State’s discretion the removal of the employee(s) from the project covered by this Agreement.
