MEMORANDUM OF PROJECT PARTICIPATION

This Memorandum of Project Participation comprises the following sections:

A	Authority to Represent
B	Dispute Resolution
C	Accreditation for XML Standards
D	Support of Prime Contractor
E	Accept payment by Royalties for Contract variance issues
F	Acceptance
G	Glossary of Terms


A	AUTHORITY TO REPRESENT

Aa	I [PREFERRED] [FAMILY], [POSITION] am the authorised Representative of [ORG] on the Open Interchange 
	Consortium {OIC}.

Ab	I am authorised to confirm that my Company wishes to be included as a member of the OIC Project Consortium 
	for the submission to the Lgov-NSW e-local tender.

B	DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Ba	I confirm that my organisation and any consultants, suppliers and sub-contractors engaged for this project are 
	prepared to abide by the Dispute Resolution process established by the OIC for this project.

Bb	I confirm that my organisation and any consultants, suppliers and sub-contractors engaged for this project are 
	prepared to accept the decision of the Dispute Resolution Committee comprising 5 members of the OIC project team 
	and 2 external members

Bb	I confirm that my organisation and any consultants, suppliers and sub-contractors engaged for this project are 
	prepared to abide by the decision of the Dispute Resolution Committee established for this project

C	ACCREDITATION FOR XML STANDARDS AND GOVERNMENT STANDARDS

Ca	I and my organisation understand that many Government contracts wish to consider applications that use XML schemas.

Cb	I confirm that any person engaged in this project for technical e-application developments will be trained in XML 
	standards or provide an XML Accreditation

Cc	I confirm my organisation will endeavour to engage people on this project that are familiar with the Mandatory 
	Requirements of the NSW State Government Policy documents

D	SUPPORT OF PRIME CONTRACTOR

Da	I and my organisation are committed to support the OIC in its efforts to ensure that the Prime Contractor for
	this project can meet the objectives and timescales for this project

Db	We recognise that there will be mistakes with specification and interpretation.  We are prepared to use the OIC 	
	Project Variance Identification [PVI] process as part of the Dispute Resolution Process as an indication of 
	support for the Prime Contractor

E	ACCEPT PAYMENT BY ROYALTIES FOR CONTRACT VARIANCE ISSUES

Ea	I confirm that my organisation accepts that membership of the OIC includes remuneration by licence of Intellectual 
	Property Royalties [IPRs] and services

Eb	I confirm that my organisation accepts that in the event of a contract variance that the decision by the Dispute 
	Resolution Committee to offer compensation from IPRs from other projects will be considered

Ec	I confirm that my organisation accepts that part of that payment may be in the form of an E-credit offset eg 
	Travel, Accommodation, Education Credits

F	ACCEPTANCE

I sign this memorandum as confirmation of my organisation's willingness to:

	1 	participate in this project 

	2	participate in this project as part of a consortium

	3	participate as a fully paid up project participation member of the OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM [OIC]


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		NAME:							DD-MMM-YYYY

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		POSTION

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		ORGANISATION

WITNESS		..........................................
		NAME:

G	GLOSSARY

DCITA 	Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts   

ebXML Australia - responsible for Australian XML implemented applications   
	New Structure 25 Oct 2002  
	1	CFT	- Forum Co-ordination Team   
	2	TBG	- Trade & Business Process Group   
	3	ICG 	- Information Content Group   
	4	ATG	- Applied Technology Group   
	5	TMG 	- Technologies & Methodologies Group   
	6	LG	- Legal Group  

EDIFACT	Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce & Trade   

NOIE	National Office for the Information Economy   

OASIS	Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards   

SME	Small & Medium-size Enterprises   

TIMS	Tender Information Management Services   

XML	Extensible Mark-up Language