Specifications include, but are not limited to: 3.1 The Licensor agrees to provide to MDE an ASP based Child Nutrition Automated Purchasing (APS) system and Services and associated deliverables required to provide, host and maintain a web based application for MDE as described in this Agreement. While the scope of work for this project is defined by the contract documents set forth herein in the article titled “Entire Agreement”, a summary of such work is outlined in Article 3.5 below. 3.2 The Licensor acknowledges that MDE intends to be actively involved in the day-to-day progress of the project. The Licensor agrees to (a) obtain MDE’s approval of all tasks and the time schedule for completion of said tasks prior to commencing performance, if not already contained in the approved project work plan; (b) make available to the State project team members all project work papers and work-in-progress for review; (c) ensure that the Licensor Project Manager works closely together with the State Project Manager, (d) provide MDE access to the host website; (e) meet with MDE on a regular basis at a mutually agreeable time, and as otherwise requested by MDE, to discuss the status of the project, and (f) if required by MDE, submit written project status reports. 3.3 The parties understand and agree that the project shall be structured with interim deliverables as set forth in the agreed upon project work plan so as to allow MDE an opportunity to accept or reject the deliverables, including but not limited to, specifications, requirement definitions, process designs, data analyses, web layouts, screen layouts, and report layouts. The actual customizations shall not begin until after MDE has communicated its conceptual approval of the results the Licensor plans to provide. MDE shall have ten (10) business days to review interim materials, which review period can only be reduced by mutual agreement of the Licensor and MDE. 3.4 It is understood by the parties that the project work plan must be in place within fifteen (15) business days of execution of this Agreement and prior to any other work being performed. Once this mutually agreed upon project work plan, which will identify specific time frames and deliverable target dates for this project, has been developed, it will be incorporated into and made a part of this Agreement. The dates in the project work plan will define the agreed upon period of performance. The parties acknowledge that the project work plan will evolve and change from time to time upon the mutual written agreement of both parties. The parties agree that the deliverables and schedule set forth in the latest version of the project work plan will take precedence over any prior plans. 3.5 Licensor shall be responsible for the following: A. Ensuring that all deliverables are complete and accepted by MDE pursuant to the mutually agreed upon project work plan; B. Ensuring that the host site complies with PriorityOne of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Accessibility Initiative and guidelines in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act that are not covered in W3C Priority; C. Ensuring that the site is accessible through MDE’s published universal resource locator (“URL”) rather than through Licensor’s site address; D. Reviewing with MDE the Content a minimum of once a quarter to ensure that the Content remains timely and accurate and reaching an agreement with MDE as to reasonable timelines for implementing Content updates delivered to the Licensor that will be posted on the site;
