As a PSGA member you can use the Public Sector Contractor Licence when a contractor provides works or services under a formal agreement.
Pass OS data on to third parties providing you with a service or support.
The Public Sector Contractor Licence should be used where a contractor provides works or services to you under a formal agreement, which is typically charged.
To help you meet the terms of your member licence, we’ve drafted a contractor licence you can use as a formal arrangement with the people and organisations you share the data with. You can use our version for free or include the relevant clauses into your own version.
The licence helps you set out the relevant terms involved with OS data – and helps protect you from liability if the third party breaches the licence.
Free with PSGA member licence
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.
You don’t need to use a licence to provide data to anyone outside your organisation who is working with your employees temporarily. They’ll be covered by the terms of your Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) Member Licence.
This licence is not transferable, and you’ll need a new licence whenever you work with a new contractor. If for any reason your own member licence ends, we will also consider that your contractor licence will end automatically at the same time.
No, but you do need to enter into a contractor licence which contains a number of restrictions and obligations, as set out in clause 2.7.1 of the PSGA Member Licence.A number of members were unsure as to which restrictions and obligations needed to be contained in the contractor licence, and so OS drafted the standard form contractor licence. If members use the standard form contractor licence, they can be sure that this contains the required restrictions and obligations.
You can use one contractor licence per project. However, it is up to you how you administer these i.e. per contractor, per request of data (per contractor), or per project (per contractor).
The contractor licence (or standard form contractor licence) only relates to the OS data (or OS derived data) that you are providing to your contractor. You will of course need to agree suitable terms with your contractor to govern other aspects of your relationship. This could be the work that your contractor will be doing for you, how much you will be paying your contractor, and any other equipment or data that you will be providing to your contractor (or your contractor will provide to you).
Yes, Although OS will not normally need to see any contractor licence you issue, there are occasions when they are requested.
Yes.
They concern how much you and your contractor will need to pay to the other, in the event that something goes wrong.
No, Should it become necessary, OS is entitled to recover from you all amounts lawfully due in respect of breaches of OS IPR made by you and your contractors.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer this question 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.
No, so long as the only data products involved are OS OpenData products, data derived from them, or data that has been granted an exemption on OGL terms. However, if you mix OS licensed data and OS OpenData (including OS derived data that has been exempted on OGL terms), then you will need to use a contractor licence.
Dependant on what data is being used
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Pass OS data on to third parties providing you with a service or support.
We’ve drafted a full template for you to complete and share with your contractor.
Download templateUse our ‘simple template’ to copy, paste and adapt as you need. Remember, if you edit, add or delete any clauses, you must remove OS branding.
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