ABSTRACT
A facilities management contract may include provision for some supply of goods and it is essential that the contract details the services. It is most unwise for the purchaser to consider the use of either his own standard terms for the purchase of goods or the supplier's standard terms of sale or licence in contracts for computer systems. In addition to the usual provision of maintenance services and the correction of defects, the purchaser will want to place obligations on the supplier to provide any upgrades, modifications or enhancements introduced by the supplier to that software. The supplier will need access to the purchaser's premises as well as to any existing system with which the new system must interface, and also to the purchaser's personnel. The client should consider whether it is necessary to clarify in the specification any particular purpose for which the goods are required.
