ECHA/2020/666  Annex 1 to Tender Specifications  Technical Specifications Restricted  67 (77) 1. Intermediate assessment(s) of the quality of the (intermediate) deliverables and  overall performance of the contractor which primary purpose is to flag potential  shortcomings and devise the necessary corrective actions.  2. Final assessment(s) of the quality of the (final) deliverables and overall performance  of the contractor which primary purpose is to determine whether the contractor is  ready to deliver all services under the FWC at the expected level of quality.  • T1 (10 working days by default) refers to the number of working days needed by  the Agency to review the deliverable and provide the contractor with comments.  • T2 (5 working days by default) refers to the number of working days allocated to  the contractor to provide its position to the comments raised by the Agency. This  position will be flagged by the Agency using the following status:  o “To be implemented” o “To be discussed” o “No action” with the appropriate justification. “No action” refers to  comments that do not impose any action to be taken by the contractor.  • T3 (5 working days by default) refers to the number of working days allocated to  the contractor to implement the meeting decisions and release an updated version  of the deliverable.  • T4 (5 working days by default) refers to the number of working days needed by  the Agency to verify the correct implementation of the reviewers' remarks.  P.O. Box 400, FI-00121 Helsinki, Finland | Tel. +358 9 686180 | echa.europa.eu  Failure to meet the agreed quality levels and/or failure to perform the tasks in line with  ECHA’s requirements and expectations , either at intermediate or final review stages, may  lead to the interruption of the phase in activities with the contractor and initiation of the  cascade to cover such services in accordance with the provision of the SLA (see Annex  16). Furthermore, ECHA may proceed to the termination of FWC666 with the selected  contractor (ref. also to the provision of article II.18 of FWC666). If not specified otherwise in a specific contract, the procedure for accepting services, (for  example service support, application management service, documentation, etc.) will be as  follows:  A review cycle of T1/T2/T3/T4 will apply, where:  Comments for which the position of contractor is "To be discussed" or for which the  Agency does not agree with the given position will be discussed during a review  meeting. A meeting decision ("No Action" or "To be implemented") will be made  and recorded in the meeting minutes.  When the acceptance involves third parties, the review cycles will not include the time  spent by a third party on performing the actions requested, and by duly informing the  Contractor to avoid or mitigate any impact on their work organisation, e.g. caused by a  delay on a third party. No deliverable is accepted by default. When the responsibility of a delay in the review  process is clearly identified on the Agency side, the contractor must alert the Agency. Also,  the Agency can reject a deliverable by interrupting the review cycle when there is evidence  that the quality of the deliverable is too low or when there is evidence that the objective  of the deliverable is missed. 6.3.4. Acceptance of other services 