This Standard Form Contractor Licence (SFCL) is where you can license contractors to support your business activities with our licensed data.
Sub-licence OS data to a contractor to enable the contractor to provide works on your behalf.
The Standard Form Contractor Licence (SFCL) is a draft template for use where you license OS data under the Framework Contract (Direct Customer).
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This draft doesn’t constitute legal advice and you should talk to your own legal advisers regarding the licence, including content, format, signing, witnessing and storage.
If you're a member of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) see our public sector contractors licensing page.
Although OS will not normally need to see any contractor licence you issue, there are occasions when they are requested.
The lifespan of a contractor licence is entirely down to you and is dependent upon the scope of the works and or service being provided.
Use an End User licence for this purpose.
They set out the responsibilities and obligations of both you and your contractors in your relationship with OS. If required, you should get your own legal advice on understanding what these clauses mean to you.
No. Should it become necessary (and in connection with the use data that OS manages the IPR in) OS is entitled to recover from you all amounts lawfully due in respect of breaches of IPR made by you and your contractors.
In the contractor licence that we provide, the liability position has been back-to-backed. It is important that, if required, you should get your own legal advice on understanding what these clauses mean to you.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer this with definitive guidelines, because any case needs consideration on an individual basis.
From the point the contract is terminated, the contractor can only keep an archive copy of the OS (or OS derived) data.
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Sub-licence OS data to a contractor to enable the contractor to provide works on your behalf.
We’ve drafted a template for you to complete and share with your contractor
The Framework Contract for Direct Customers (FCDC) sets out general terms on which OS licences digital mapping products to direct customers.
