4.8 In putting together the contract, the Agency negotiated a range of terms designed to protect value for money during the operational phase. These protections include:
■ The schedule of pre-priced additional work to the telecommunications network that the Agency can call-off as and when needed;
■ Clauses which allow the Agency to share any reduction in costs due to the application of innovation by the contractor;
■ A biannual technology review, to share likely reductions in the price of telecommunications equipment over time;
■ Minor variations to the contract that can be rolled into a major variation, saving processing costs;
■ A simple payment deduction regime that covers continuous and intermittent faults and is applied whenever a service is unavailable or, when the fault is caused by others, the service is unavailable after the elapse of the agreed remedy period;
■ GeneSYS takes the risks on capacity up to the limit of the high demand scenario (the Agency retains the volume risk if its requirements exceed the high demand scenario); and
■ GeneSYS takes the risk that the Agency either may not complete its future works on time, or might not be able to provide GeneSYS with access to the roadside on time. To manage its obligations, GeneSYS needs to partner with the Agency in a manner that keeps the contractor informed of the Agency's future works.