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The Vendor Management Office: Category Archive for Terms and Conditions Negotiations

VENDOR: Sorry, But Here's an Invoice From Last Year We Forgot to Send. YOU: Wwwwhat?!

Test Your Procurement Skills: Reps and Warranties and Disclaimers, Oh My!

News You Can Use: Insurance Terms and Clauses

Test Your Procurement Skills: Find the One Word Death Trap

Civility in Negotiations

Revisited: Procurement Best Practices and the Procurement Maturity Model

New Book Available! Project Procurement Management: A Guide to Structured Procurements

"Our mission is to simplify the world of contracts..."

The Red Flags Rule and What It Means for Procurement

The Top Ten Force Majeure Imposters

Contract Finishing Checklist: Make Sure Your Contracts Look Spiffy

Those Peskly Contractual Exceptions to the Definition of Confidential Information: What to Do?

Force Majeure = Get Out of Jail Free

Shhhhh! Want to Know a Secret?

Automate Your Contract Templates with HotDocs!

Automate Your Contract Templates with HotDocs!

FREE CONTRACT TEMPLATES!!!

The New Fangled SaaS Contract Template (Updated)

One of My Pet Peeves: Informal Dispute Resolution

So You Successfully Settled a Formal Contract Dispute... Now What?

Learning and Reference Resources for Contract Drafting

Step Right Up! Get Your USAID and USDA Procurement and Contracting CFR Provisions Here!

Step Right Up! Get Your USAID and USDA Procurement and Contracting CFR Provisions Here!

Software Escrow... Less is More (Software Escrow Agreement Download Included, If You Dare)

Using Hired Guns to Re-negotiate Old Deals

Get Some Oomph Behind the "T" Word

Contract Disputes - Prevention is Key! (But what happens if that doesn't work?)

Redlining on the Fly

Keep Your Legal Department Far, Far Away From Your Deals!

Going Beyond Confidential Information: The "Information Security" Provision

Protecting Against Patent Trolls

Depreciated License Fee as a Vendor's Infringement Remedy

UCITA is DEAD!!! And Here's Some Specific Contract Language to Nail the Coffin Shut...

Have You Ever Gotten a PDF-format Contract Template from a Vendor!?