Round One Project Proposals: The Fine Print

These terms and conditions applied to the tendering process for the Taskforce’s round one projects, and are displayed here for archiving purposes. The round two terms and conditions are also available.

In submitting your quote, you need to be aware of and agree to the following key terms and conditions:

• Only Australian resident individuals and corporate entities are eligible to quote for the projects. Multi-national companies and their local subsidiaries are welcome to quote for the projects as long as they are willing to fund the project themselves.
• The projects will be funded from the Project Fund, and you will be required to enter into a contract based on your quote with Microsoft Australia. The contracts will be standard perform a service get paid ones without any tricky clauses. We want the contracts to be signed quickly so expect that you will be able to do so.
• All prices quoted must include any incidental expenses and be inclusive of GST.
• The intellectual property of project outputs will transfer to the Commonwealth of Australia when the Taskforce disbands. All outputs from projects will be published by the Taskforce in the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Use license Australian variant 2.5 or similar open licensing arrangement for any computer applications/software. Make sure you have sufficient legal ownership/control of anything you intend to include in project outputs. Please do not include anything that is subject to commercial sensitivity or privacy concerns.
• An authorised representative of the bidder needs to be available for 3-5 days after the closing date for quotes to respond to enquiries about your quote and (if you are successful) sign a contract with Microsoft.

There will, of course, be other fine print you will need to read, but the rest can wait until the successful bidders have been selected and the contracts are awarded!