DLE to NGS Migration: Contracts Clinic

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DLE to NGS MigrationContracts Clinic

• 24th February 2006

The information in this presentation relates to
plans currently under development and subject to
consultation, and may be subject to change.
Detailed implementation depends upon a number of
factors including the capabilities of suppliers
and the final 21CN network design.
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DLE to NGS MigrationContracts Clinic Aims
Objectives

• To achieve a consensus position on BTs proposed
  contracting plan
• As far as this is possible to do so
• Identify the steps required in order to enact it
• To improve understanding of the VIC product and
  the Implementation process for early tranches of
  DLE to NGS interconnect migration to facilitate
  development and agreement of contractual terms
• Develop and manage an issues list
• Develop and manage contractual documentation
• To agree an action plan next steps

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BTs Contracting Plan
Phase 1 DLE to NGS Migration
Phase 2 End Customer Migration
Phase 3 NGN

• Phase 1 is relatively well understood
• Building a good understanding of engineering
  costs
• VIC Clinics starting to flesh out
  non-engineering costs
• Phase 2 impacts across the obligatory products
  not just interconnect
• Product discussions still ongoing
• Complex undertaking and impacts not fully
  understood to enable detailed commercial
  discussions to take place
• Communication Provider contracts feedback
  indicated that smaller bites would be better
  received.

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Phase 1 Contracts Documentation

• VIC Supplemental
• Normal approach to introduce a new schedule to
  the SIA
• No Change to Annexes A, B or D proposed by BT
• Schedule 131
• Deals with the introduction of VIC
• SAN side letter
• Can apply generically to Tranches 1-4 or
  individually to each tranche
• The choice is open to each individual CP

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Cost Recovery where are we in the process?

• Most Communication Providers have provided BT
  with a view of likely engineering costs
• Includes engineering project management costs as
  appropriate
• Required to put a number in the SAN side letter
• Greater understanding required of VIC solution
  design required to size non-engineering costs
• Top level view (from CPs _at_ VIC clinic 8/2/06) is
  costs may arise from
• Entering VIC information in billing systems
• Reconciliation of circuit bills
• Management of the supplementary bill for overflow
• Question How do we solve this one for tranche 1
  contractually?

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Phase 1 Contract Timetable
VIC Solution Design Workshops Provision Experts
Billing
VIC Clinic to identify discuss issues
VIC product
08/02/06
06/02/06
24/02/06
13/02/06
01 02/03/06
31/03/06
17/03/06
Contract
Contracting Plan/SIA Supp/Sch 13/SAN letter shared
Contracts Clinic (1)
T1 contracts signed
T2 contracts signed
Contracts Clinic (2)
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Agenda for today

• VIC Storyboard
• Whats closed, what new concerns arise?
• What are the concerns with BTs proposed phased
  contracts approach?
• Detailed Contractual Arrangements for Phase 1
• Thoughts and comments
• Next Steps
• What actions do we need in place to resolve the
  key issues we have identified?
• Product description update
• VIC Migration guidance document update
• When/should we meet again?