[foundation-board] Iconomical Situation

Thu Feb 3 15:40:36 UTC 2011

Thanks for this report Rufus.

Is there any written agreement between OKFN and Iconomical or was all
work carried out on a good faith / verbal agreement basis?

More inline...

On 3 February 2011 11:10, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> While I believe we *should* pay Iconomical for their work there are 2
> fundamental questions:
>
> 1. Do we pay before code is fixed and checked (re usuability by third
> parties -- I'm afraid of an dump it over the wall setup here)

Is there any scope for OKFN to make a payment of half of monies owed
with second half being paid pending analysis of the source code once
it is delivered?

> 2. Should there be deductions for the costs in delay (need to rewrite
> going forward) caused by Iconomical's behaviour

My hunch is that in the absence of a specific contract allowing us to
do this, getting compensated for their delays is going to be a tough
ask. Although it seems unfair given how badly it sounds like they
behaved, the most sensible thing to do may be to cut our losses
(depending on how big those losses are - see question below) and move
on. This is just my tuppence worth, I'd like to hear from others with
more experience in contracting services.

One final question - how has this, and how do you predict this will,
affect the overall project budget?

Cheers

Becky
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