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Software Development Agreement (premium)

Software Development Agreement (premium)


Price: £60.00 (Including VAT at 20%)

This agreement for software development is designed for complex software development deals. You can see the selected clauses (from the standard version of the template) here:

Sample Agreement for Software Development

This premium agreement for software development includes a wide selection of optional provisions omitted from the standard software development agreement document. The optional provisions cover matters such as the licensing of source code, project management, software integration, developer testing, data protection, confidentiality, publicity change control, non-solicitation and indemnities for each party.

Because of the complexities involved with software development and licensing, this is not an easy template to edit. You should only purchase it if you are prepared to devote several hours to editing.

The contract clause list is as follows:

(1) Definitions and interpretation
(2) Term
(3) Services overview
(4) Project management
(5) Development, delivery and integration
(6) Developer quality testing
(7) Customer acceptance testing
(8) Customer Works
(9) Customer obligations
(10) Invoicing and payment
(11) Change control
(12) Licence / Assignment
(13) Intellectual Property Rights
(14) Escrow
(15) Warranties
(16) Indemnities
(17) Limitations and exclusions of liability
(18) Data protection
(19) Confidentiality and publicity
(20) Termination
(21) Effects of termination
(22) Notices
(23) Force Majeure Event
(24) General

The development agreement also includes a number of schedules:

Schedule 1 - Specification of Software
Schedule 2 - Project Plan
Schedule 3 - Charges
Schedule 4 - Form of CCN
Schedule 5 - Licensing
Schedule 6 - EULA
Schedule 7 - Form of escrow agreement

The template is 35 pages long (including the cover sheet) and is supplied in Word (.doc) format for easy editing.

This software agreement template is included in our premium Software Developer Pack.

Agreement for Software Development Q&A

Agreement for Software Development Q&A

What does the software development agreement include to help a developer where a project is delayed for reasons outside the developer's control?

The agreement includes a force majeure clause. This provides that obligations are suspended for the duration of a force majeure event. A force majeure event is defined as an event or serious of events outside the control of the affected party. Examples of force majeure events might include third party industrial disputes, terrorist attacks and environmental disasters.

Where a developer's performance is affected by such an event, the developer may be placed under a duty to keep the customer informed, and also to take steps to mitigate the effects of the event.

In addition, there is an express exclusion of liabilities arising out of a force majeure event.

How does the change control procedure in this agreement work?

Either party may request a change to the terms of the agreement or the specification of the software at any time, although in practice it is the customer that will usually make such requests. The requesting party must send a change control notice to the other party, outlining the impact of the change on the timetable under the contract, details of any additional resources that may be required, and details of any consequential variations of contract. The other party has a fixed period to consider such request. Before the end of that period, the other party should either accept or reject the notice, or request additional information, or propose changes to the notice. One obvious variation that may be needed in the case of requests from the customer is a change to the charges.

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