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===Account management basics===
===License and SLA basics===
Please describe how accounts are established with your organization and what level of visibility clients and their authorized users will have into account details, including service metrics, security metrics, and various account logs.
Please describe the details of any applicable license agreements and SLAs (e.g., if SaaS) for the various LIMS products and services you provide, including any negotiable aspects of those agreements. Provide examples. Any relevant measurements and ranges for work performed by you (e.g., response times, accuracy) should also be clearly defined and stated. Explain what the cost implications related to any differing license or service levels are. Finally, explain whether or not your organization provides clients with a 30-day proof of concept test of the LIMS and any related services to ensure your organization can prove its marketing and operational claims.




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===Support basics===
===SLAs for SaaS===
Please describe your organizational approach to client support and how that support is structured, including the processes and mechanisms for handling client inquiries and issues. Describe the communication mechanisms primarily and secondarily used for support, including mailed documentation, phone calls, electronic communication, and face-to-face communication. Explain how the escalation process for inquiries and reported issues should be handled.
In the case of SaaS-related LIMS cloud agreements (if applicable) with your organization, please explain how software customization, upgrades, testing, and versioning are addressed in such agreements.




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===Help desk and support ticketing===
===Agreement failure===
Please indicate what help desk or ticketing functionality is available for clients having issues with the LIMS solution and any related services (e.g., if SaaS). Describe how clients should go about using such tools to initiate the support process. Do clients receive comprehensive downtime support in the case of solution or service downtime?
Please explain how your organization monitors and measures its compliance with agreements, as well as client compliance with agreements. Describe what options are available to clients and your organization upon the other party failing to meet an agreed-upon term.




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===Availability, provisioning, and responsiveness===
===Business associate agreements===
Please indicate the availability of your organization's support services, including hours offered. Also indicate who is provisioning the service, whether it's in-house or a third party, and from where the service is provisioned. Note whether or not support services change hands at any point. Finally, describe how support quality is guaranteed at all times, including any guarantees on responsiveness.
If your organization's cannabis testing LIMS is offered via the cloud, state whether or not the hosting organization—whether it be your organization or a third-party organization—will sign a business associate agreement or addendum for purposes of ensuring the hosting organization appropriately safeguards protected health information, as dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).




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===Client satisfaction===
===Contract termination===
Please describe how your organization measures and reports (including frequency) client satisfaction with support, account, and overall services. Describe how deficiencies in client satisfaction are addressed and resolved within the organization.
Please describe what happens with a client and their data at contract termination. If the cannabis testing LIMS is a cloud solution, the hosting provider—whether it be your organization or a third-party organization—should be able to explain their policy on archiving, deleting, and helping transition client data from any of their systems upon contract termination, including particulars about data formats, deletion methodologies, and transfer methods. Any explanation should include the respective termination rights of both the organization and the client.




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===Ancillary services===
===Organization termination or catastrophic loss===
Please indicate whether or not your organization provides value-added support services, and if so what type. Can a dedicated account manager with sufficient technical knowledge be provided, and if so, at what cost?
Please describe what would happen to a client's LIMS and associated data in the event of your organization going out of business or suffering a catastrophic loss.

Revision as of 14:03, 21 August 2021

License and SLA basics

Please describe the details of any applicable license agreements and SLAs (e.g., if SaaS) for the various LIMS products and services you provide, including any negotiable aspects of those agreements. Provide examples. Any relevant measurements and ranges for work performed by you (e.g., response times, accuracy) should also be clearly defined and stated. Explain what the cost implications related to any differing license or service levels are. Finally, explain whether or not your organization provides clients with a 30-day proof of concept test of the LIMS and any related services to ensure your organization can prove its marketing and operational claims.




SLAs for SaaS

In the case of SaaS-related LIMS cloud agreements (if applicable) with your organization, please explain how software customization, upgrades, testing, and versioning are addressed in such agreements.




Agreement failure

Please explain how your organization monitors and measures its compliance with agreements, as well as client compliance with agreements. Describe what options are available to clients and your organization upon the other party failing to meet an agreed-upon term.




Business associate agreements

If your organization's cannabis testing LIMS is offered via the cloud, state whether or not the hosting organization—whether it be your organization or a third-party organization—will sign a business associate agreement or addendum for purposes of ensuring the hosting organization appropriately safeguards protected health information, as dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).




Contract termination

Please describe what happens with a client and their data at contract termination. If the cannabis testing LIMS is a cloud solution, the hosting provider—whether it be your organization or a third-party organization—should be able to explain their policy on archiving, deleting, and helping transition client data from any of their systems upon contract termination, including particulars about data formats, deletion methodologies, and transfer methods. Any explanation should include the respective termination rights of both the organization and the client.




Organization termination or catastrophic loss

Please describe what would happen to a client's LIMS and associated data in the event of your organization going out of business or suffering a catastrophic loss.