Fitness burden falls on purchasers
3 April 2012
IT buyers must be more specific when explaining the uses of software in contracts to safeguard their company’s interest in possible legal battles, a landmark ruling this month has shown.
“The responsibility for the fitness of purpose in an IT contract has now passed on to the buyer,” said Paul Abbiati, a legal consultant with PMMS and member of CIPS’s legal committee.
“There is now more of a pressure on buyers to state exactly what they want the software to do at the time of signing the contract,” he added.
Abbiati’s warning comes after a...