Do I void the contract if I agree to a variation in a schedule ?
April 14, 2010 by
Filed under schedule management software
I would have though so.
But this site http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/anm..says
“The first Collins submarine was commissioned inl 1996 with known combat system processing and interface problems. The legacy Oberon CSS MK2 distributed architecture could not handle the heavy contact load that today’s missions require. Two years later, a fast-track interim software fix was begun with some combat system functions deleted. The following year, program management and defense acquisition was completely reorganized. In 2000, a request for proposals was put out to replace the SFCS MK 1, and some U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) processor units from the BSY-1 on Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines were installed as an interim rig until a new design would be available.
In June, Cirrus and DRS won a fast-track bid, and two finalists for a new combat display system were Raytheon and STN Atlas Elektronik. As of early this year, the six Collins submarines still lacked full mission requirement integrated combat systems eight years after the problems were first noted.”
Of course, this is a hypothetical case.
Real life might be different.
“in the real world, a single glimpse
is different”
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
utsutsu ni hitome
mishigoto wa arazu
(Ono-no-komachi of 9th century, with no record of birth and death, leaves us splendid poems mainly describing dreams and flow of time. Followings are the most famous her poems
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ny3k-kbys/co…
Generally speaking, a contract’s terms can be amended by mutual agreement, either written or oral. (You’d want it in writing, but an oral agreement would hold up in court, too, if both parties agreed it was made or the court found it was made).
Some contracts specifically prevent amendment of their terms. In that case, if your contract isn’t separable, you could well void it by agreeing to extend a deadline.
Certainly trade journals around January 1993 talked about this. Case in USA of govt and contractors sueing and counter-sueing for sums like $500 million to $1000 million.
So if there were people subsequent to January 1993 who were agreeing to variations in schedules then it doesn’t appear they were keeping up with the relevant literature. It seems to be safety related and should appear in the safety literature.
to dhvrm . Great answer.