Section 27-3799. DEFINITIONS

 

3799.1When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed:

 

Completed goods - goods that are completely manufactured and ready for delivery.

 

Cure notice - a notice in writing in which the contracting officer specifies a contractor's failure to perform some provision of the contract or failure to make sufficient progress on contract performance so as to endanger performance of the contract. The notice includes a period of time in which the contractor will be allowed to cure the failure.

 

Director - the Director of the Office of Contracting and Procurement or the District of Columbia Chief Procurement Officer.

 

District property account - an accounting of property owned by the District.

 

Effective date of termination - the date on which the notice of termination requires the contractor to stop performance under the contract. If the termination notice is received by the contractor subsequent to the date fixed for termination, then the effective date of termination is the date the notice is received by the contractor.

 

Other work - any current or scheduled work of the contractor, whether governmental or commercial, other than work related to the terminated contract.

 

Partial termination - the termination of a part, but not all, of the work that has not been completed and accepted under a contract.

 

Settlement agreement - a written agreement in the form of a modification to a contract settling all or a severable portion of a settlement proposal.

 

Settlement proposal - a proposal for effecting settlement of a contract terminated, in whole or in part, submitted by a contractor or subcontractor.

 

Show cause notice - a notice in which the contracting officer notifies the contractor in writing of the possibility of a termination for default. The notice calls the contractor's attention to the contractual liabilities if the contract is terminated for default, and requests the contractor to show cause why the contract should not be terminated for default.

 

Terminated portion of the contract - the portion of a terminated contract that relates to work or end items not completed and accepted before the effective date of termination, and is the portion of the contract which the contractor is not to continue to perform. For construction contracts that have been completely terminated for convenience, it means the entire contract, notwithstanding the completion of or payment for individual items of work before termination.

 

Termination for default - the exercise of the District's contractual right to terminate, completely or partially, a contract because of the contractor's actual or anticipated failure to perform its contractual obligations.

 

source

Final Rulemaking publishing at 35 DCR 1706 (February 26, 1988).