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Key definition

Services agreement definition

What does Services agreement mean? A services agreement is a contract under which a supplier agrees to perform specified services for a customer in return for payment of fees or charges. The term is descriptive rather than statutory and is used across commercial, IT, professional services and outsourcing matters, often structured as a master services agreement with statements of work. Key features typically include: scope and specification; service levels/KPIs and remedies (including service credits); pricing and payment; governance and change control; warranties; intellectual property ownership and licensing of deliverables; confidentiality; data protection and data processing (UK GDPR/EU GDPR); subcontracting; indemnities (for example, IP infringement); limitation...

ACE 2017 Professional Services Agreement: legal briefing on key terms, liability caps, payment, copyright, BIM, termination, disputes and collateral warranties (England and Wales or Scotland)

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Practice notes

Practice Note

The PSA is a model consultant appointment issued by the ACE (Association for Consultancy and Engineering). This Practice Note focuses on the 2017 version (earlier ACE Agreement editions and related documents were released in 2009). The ACE PSA includes built-in guidance and is available in both digital and printed formats...

ACE also issues further agreements, such as:

Advisory, Investigatory and other services
a sub-consultancy agreement
a short form agreement
an agreement intended for use by a consumer (none of which are addressed in this Practice Note)

This Practice Note reviews notable provisions of the ACE PSA. It also examines the Collateral Warranty form designed to accompany the ACE PSA and signposts the separate ACE services schedules for civil and structural engineering and for mechanical and electrical engineering. For contemporary commentary from the time of publication, see the News Analysis by Sir Vivian Ramsey: ACE Professional Service Suite of Agreements 2017 released. Consistent with the ACE PSA, this Practice Note uses the party terms ‘Consultant’ and ‘Client’...

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