Termination clause

How about this, for a clause taken from a real-life ITT we reviewed recently:

“10.3 At the end of the Contract all data shall be handed back to the Authority and the Contractor shall be destroyed”

You know, sometimes one probably shouldn’t submit a “fully compliant” response…

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3 Comments »

  • Hilarious! Nice to see the caring buyer-seller relationship working well…makes me wonder what the service was for? Intelligence services or spies?

  • bj lownie says:

    I’m not sure it was the smartest move posting this ‘contract term’ as I just spoke with a client who saw this post and wanted to know if it would be possible to add this item to my contract with them.

  • Mary Ann Van Fossen says:

    Awhile back (at a different job) during final edits we found the following:

    “All clients will be locked into fire proof cabinets at the end of each workday.”

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