money.
I am sure HKG standards in this regard are no less exacting than our own. In this instance, there would be a period of live acceptance testing in Hong Kong before the Home Office agreed finally to accept the system. Given the size of the contract, it is our aim to seek terms specifying payment in full after final acceptance rather than a staged payment arrangement. Thus, the Home Office would be invoiced after final acceptance and payment would be required within 30 days. HKG would pay the money into our suspense account from which it would be immediately paid to the contractor by the Home Office.
I mentioned to Judy earlier today that, if it would help, we might be able to agree formally at
to agree formally at this stage that the hardware would revert to HKG ownership at the end of the programme. This might not be possible for the software owing to potential copyright difficulties.
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Once again, I am sorry this is causing us problems. Until we have confirmation from you on the question of ownership I am afraid we shall not be able
proceed further with the Procurement process.
We have the Operational Requirement completed (a copy is with Judy) and we should be in a position to issue it early next week once we have your confirmation. would be helpful to have your urgent response.
I am copying this letter to Judy Ching.
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