MISA Ontario has published on this site a contract template that municipalities can use to save time when purchasing low-risk IT products and services.

The document, called the Ontario Municipalities Standard Form IT Agreement, is intended to be used voluntarily as an appendix to a municipality’s RFP, containing terms and conditions that would not be contentious to either the municipality or the supplier and could be accepted without further negotiations.

The template agreement could apply in typical commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) type procurements of equipment, software, and service and support services.

MISA Ontario is seeking comment from users on the effectiveness of this contract template.

We invite our member representatives to visit the Member Resources section of this site, click on “COTS Software Licence and Services Agreement,” and complete the brief survey of 10 questions.

We will use the survey results to improve the use of the standard form of the licence and service agreement. Thank you in advance from MISA Ontario!