Agreements with Suppliers

A number of government entities might have established contracts with their suppliers where cancelation of services would incur charges. Some of them might include firm agreement terms prohibiting such entities from engaging in any other activity aiming at implementing the Web Standards and Guidelines. This could be the case if for instance:

• A government entity had already signed a website design or development contract according to some original specifications that contradict or do not match with the website standards and guidelines specifications.
• A government entity has an ongoing non-refundable maintenance agreement for updates to regular Web pages with the agency that implemented the website.
• The contract terms makes the supplier the sole provider of maintenance services for the website in question, disallowing any other party from having access to or rights to change the website during the duration of the contract, at the expense of terminating the agreement.