Contract termination

Contract termination is an economic threat Less control over the process than when It IS done m-house... 

The contract can specify the amount of time the client needs to remove its materials from the toller s facility and lays out notification procedures for dissolving the contract. Chapter 6, Closure and Audit, Example 6-1 is a sample contract termination checklist. It is an illustration of one company s inventoiy list for closing out a tolling project. It addresses material, financial, legal and environmental considerations. 

The toll manager for the client company may prepare a customized checklist as a guide for the closure. Example 6-1, Sample Closure Review Checklist, which begins on the next page, shows a typical list used for contract termination. This example can be used as a template to help companies prepare their own checklist by adding or deleting items as necessary. 

Where the ever-growing workload did not account for the activation of new administrative units, the decentralization of operations in accordance with ASF policy did. In 1942 such functions as priorities and allocations and manpower utilization were decentralized to the installations. From 1943 to the close of the war, decentralization of operations took place on pricing analysis, public relations, property disposal, contract termination, and demobilization. Units to supervise these functions were set up in the district offices and other pertinent installations. 

In addition to the problems of spare parts and maintenance which the CWS faced in its efforts to balance procurement and distribution, there were problems of property disposal and contract termination. No sooner had the CWS procured its initial equipment than problems of property disposal began to arise. By early 1S>44 delay in disposing of inventory and industrial property was leading to delay in contract terminations throughout all the technical services. ... 

Property disposal and contract termination were also closely related to demobilization planning and will be discussed in that connection. See ch. XVII below. 

By the end of 1943, when the Army had completed its initial distribution of materiel, the CWS had finished the bulk of its new construction and had gained valuable experience in procurement, inspection, and distribution operations. The second half of the war witnessed greater stress on improvement of the supply system through adoption of more refined administrative procedures and through programs aimed at better maintenance practices and better control of spare parts. Problems of maintenance, spare parts, contract termination, and property disposal constituted potential bottlenecks to production. 

Ltr, Deputy Chief, CmlC to CO s of CWPD s, 2 Dec 47, sub Contract Termination Review Program. CWS 314.7 Contract Termination, Van Heest File. 

Ltr, Christian Van Heest to CCmlC, 27 Apr 49, sub Report on the Adnninistration of Contract Terminations by the Chemical Corps, with inclosed report. CWS 314.7 Contract Termination Van Heest File. 

In its final recommendation the report urged that contract terminations be studied in connection with the peacetime Industrial Mobilization Program, so that in any future emergency proper instruction might be given to prospective negotiators and property disposal officers. 

The report of the Contract Settlement Review Team might have made several additional observations in its analysis of the situation in the CWS. One of the reasons for poor property records was that many CWS small contractors did not have facilities to set up necessary records when they undertook a contract. Later CWS termination offices had to attempt to reconstruct the property record back to the time the contract was awarded. The efficiency with which property records were administered, as well as with regard to other aspects of contract terminations, differed among CWS installations. Some had excellent staffs and closely supervised all aspects of termination activities others did not have enough qualified people and operated in a rather haphazard manner,... 

The Baruch-Hancock Report of February 1944 led to drastic reforms in the field of property disposal no less than in contract termination. The first result was establishment of a Surplus Property Administration in the Office of War Mobilization. The Surplus Property Administration arranged for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to act as a disposal agency in addition to the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation handled general purpose equipment, machine tools, and chemicals, while the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, was restricted to consumer-type property. 

During the war the ASF not only assumed responsibility for supervising such technical service activities as disposition of facilities, contract termination, and property disposal it also set up organizational and administrative standards for all elements under its jurisdiction, and General Somervell s headquarters did not confine its concern for Army organization to the war period, but made plans for the postwar period as well. As... 

Safety performance Experience Modification Rating (EMR) Recordable injury/illness information (e.g., OSHA 300A summaries) Number of hours worked number of OSHA-recordable injuries/illnesses number of fatalities number of lost workday (LWD) cases Recordable or LWD incidence rates (no. recordable or LWD cases x 200,000/ employee hours worked) List of OSHA notices of violation and fines Safety/health-related judgments, claims, contract terminations, or pending/ outstanding lawsuits... 

If an adequate stimulus is repeatedly applied to a motor unit at a rate rapid enough for each succeeding stimulus to reactivate the contractile elements before the previous force has completely subsided, successive responses summate, each building upon the previous one until a maximal level is achieved (Figure 24.9b). If the stimulation continues, the contraction peak is maintained at this level. Such a response is known as the tetanus or tetanic contraction. When the stimulation ceases, the contraction terminates, and the fiber relaxes, with the force subsiding quickly to zero. 

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