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ARTICLE 9. Year-2000 Certification PERFORMING AGENCY certifies that any supplied or supported hardware, software, firmware and micro code products used individually or togeß1er as a system to comply with RECEIVING AGENCY contract requirements will be year-2000-compliant on or before the date such hardware, software, firmware and systems are to be impacted. Year-2000-c:ompliant means that such product operates "accurately" in the manner in which it was intended as it relates to date related operations when given a "valid date" containing century, year, month, and day. For purposes of this Article, "accurately" is defined to include the following: 1) calculations using dates must execute using a four-digit year; 2) functionality-on-line, batch including entry, inquiry; maintenance and updates must support four-digit year processing; 3) interfaces and reports must support four-digit year processing; 4) successful translation into year-2000 with the correct system date (e.g., 1/1/2000) without human intervention; 5) processing with a four-digit year after transition to any beyond the year-2000 without human intervention; 6) providing correct results in forward and backward date calculation spanning century boUndaries; 7) a leap year must be calculated correctly; and 8) processing correct results in forward and backward date calculation spanning century boundaries must be provided, including the conversion of previous years currently stored as two digits. "Valid date" contains a two-digit month, a two-digit day and a four-digit year. PERFORMING AGENCY and its subrecipient(s) as licensee(s) must obtain a warranty from any licensor from which it obtains software that any software licensed prior to, during, or after calendar year-2000, that includes or shall include, at no added cost to PERFORMING AGENCY or its subrecipient(s), design and performance so that PERFORMING AGENCY and its subrecipient(s) shall not experience software abnormally ending and/or invalid and/or incorrect results from the software in the operation of the business of the PERFORMING AGENCY or its subrecipient(s) as it pertains to RECEIVING AGENCY. The software design to ensure year-2000 compatibility shall include. date data century recognition, calculations that accommodate same century and multi-century formulas and d,ate values, and date data interface values that reflect the century. If PERFORMING AGENCY purchases specific products to perform as a system, then the warranty shall apply to those listed products as a system. The remedies available to the PERFORMING AGENCY under the warranty shall include repair or replacement of any supplied product, in addition to and notwithstanding any commercial warranty or warranties. Nothing in this warranty shall be considered to limit any rights or remedies that PERFORMING AGENCY may otherwise have with respect to defects other than year-2000 performance. RECEIVING AGENCY will not hold PERFORMING AGENCY responsible if the information coming to PERFORMING AGENCY's product/software from RECEIVING AGENCY is inaccurate or corrupt. ARTICLE 10. Certification Regarding License. Certificate. or Permit RECEIVING AGENCY may pay PERFORMING AGENCY only for personnel who are duly licensed and/or qualified to perform required services. PERFORMING AGENCY certifies that no owner, operator, or administrator of the PERFORMING AGENCY has had a license, certificate, or permit revoked by any of the Texas state agencies listed below (§ 163 of Article IX of the General Appropriations Act, 75th Legislature): . Adjutant General's Department . Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies . Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention (F ee-for-Service) 1999 GENERAL PROVISIONS Page 6 4/98