The maintenance contract was reported in the past as a related-party transaction but wasn't this year.
"Some treated this as just part of their standard maintenance contract, " Alden says.
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And companies also buy a support and maintenance contract priced at between 18% and 20% of the cost of the appliance.
More recently, ABC has come under fire for not disclosing a multi-million-dollar maintenance contract and a property deal, both involving Groves' brother-in-law.
Some of them purchase licenses along with an annual maintenance contract.
The lovely thing about the enterprise software industry: highly profitable, predictable maintenance contract revenues that make the giants of the industry look like utilities with upside.
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It also won a contract to provide power equipment for the Emirates Aluminum smelter complex in Abu Dhabi, and another maintenance contract for a LNG project in Russia.
Like any other third party practice the SAP division holds a maintenance contract on behalf of customers in which it is allowed to maintain the software of a rival like PeopleSoft.
The contract maintenance will be checked for "quality assurance" as will maintenance performed by ValuJet employees.
The contract also includes maintenance and related services.
This potential dispute relates to two contracts MITIE has held with the council - one covering repairs to council houses between 2006 and 2011, and a second ongoing contract over the maintenance of council-owned buildings, including schools, according to a leaked document seen by BBC political reporter Elizabeth Glinka.
Last year's audit came after the Housing Executive's contract with the Red Sky maintenance company was terminated in 2011.
More are attracted by the French model: keep the assets in public hands, but contract out investment, operations and maintenance.
The council previously had a number of small contracts covering issues such as road maintenance and street lighting, and the HESPE contract brought all those elements under one large contract.
Lockheed Martin purchased the system in May, and their contract with D-Wave includes operations and maintenance by D-Wave.
The Army will let go more than 3, 000 temporary and contract employees and beginning in April, it will cancel maintenance at depots which will force 5, 000 more layoffs.
And this move of offering assembly and maintenance works may just make it a preferred candidate to win this Japanese contract.
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