5.  Possible contract variants

The contract variants corresponding to divergences from the baseline assumptions set out in Section 4.1 are:

A. Longer Contract Term

B. Volatile Supplier Market

C. Volatile Government and/or policy environment

D. Services critical to delivery of a statutory duty

E. Specific and potentially large Contractor liabilities

F. Bespoke products and/or services

G. Due diligence complexities

H. Subcontractors critical to achieving a complex/high risk transformation

I. Substantial milestone payments or significant scalability risk

Each of the above is now discussed more fully (note that all references in the following text are to Model Agreement documentation at version 2.3).

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