A tightly written contract with clearly defined responsibilities helps insure a successful
implementation and protect a district’s interests when problems arise. Davidson Services’ extensive experience in negotiating vendor contracts and managing
vendors during implementation enables us to quickly identify potential contract issues and
recommend strategies to finalize negotiations. Our focus is to protect the district’s interests
while ensuring the system’s functionality and flexibility, both of which are essential in today's
complex operating environments. We assist in negotiating all aspects of the contract including
but not limited to price reductions and discounts, payment terms, dispute resolution, warranties,
indemnification, limitations and exclusions, and vendor and district responsibilities.
In order to facilitate rapid and successful contract negotiations, Davidson Services will review the vendor’s
standard contract documents and prepare a list of negotiating points based on industry standards and our extensive
experience. These negotiating points include contract clauses to be changed including the proposed alternate
language, and terms and conditions to be added or deleted as appropriate. We will also coordinate these changes
with the district’s attorney(s) and other district staff. Once the district’s negotiating team is in agreement on the
negotiating points we will participate in negotiation phone calls or meetings between the district and the vendor and
review revisions of the contract documents until a final contractual agreement is reached.
