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Indicates balanced, low-risk terms favorable to the customer.

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Liability and Risk Allocation
80% Vendor Favorable

Summary

Liability cap

  • Lenovo's liability is capped at 12 months' fees
  • There is no secondary cap on Lenovo's liability
  • Customer's liability is capped at 12 months' fees
  • There is no secondary liability cap on Customer's liability

Exceptions to the liability cap

  • Indemnification obligations relating to IP infringement are excluded from the cap on Lenovo's liability
  • Claims related to payment obligations by Customer are excluded from the cap on Customer's liability
  • Indemnification obligations relating to IP infringement are excluded from the cap on Customer's liability
  • At least some indemnification obligations (other than relating to data or IP infringement) are excluded from the cap on Customer's liability

Excluded damages

  • One or more forms of indirect damages are excluded from Lenovo's liability
  • One or more forms of indirect damages are excluded from Customer's liability

Exceptions to excluded damages

  • The damages excluded from Lenovo's liability do not include indemnification obligations relating to IP infringement
  • The damages excluded from Customer's liability do not include claims related to payment obligations
  • The damages excluded from Customer's liability do not include indemnification obligations relating to IP infringement
  • The damages excluded from Customer's liability do not include at least some indemnification obligations (other than relating to data or IP infringement)

Timing of claims

  • Claims against Lenovo must be brought by Customer in less than or equal to 18 months
  • There are no limits on when claims must be brought by Lenovo

Claims

  • Lenovo indemnifies Customer for claims based on third-party IP infringement
  • Customer indemnifies Lenovo for claims based on third-party IP infringement
  • Customer indemnifies Lenovo for claims arising from violation of laws

Scope of obligations

  • Not all types of IP are covered by Lenovo's IP indemnification
  • Lenovo's IP indemnification covers copyright claims
  • Lenovo's IP indemnification covers patent claims
  • Lenovo's indemnification obligations are the exclusive remedy for indemnified claims
  • Lenovo's indemnification includes the obligation to provide a defense
  • Lenovo's indemnification does not include the obligation to hold harmless
  • Customer's IP indemnification covers all types of IP
  • Customer's indemnification obligations are not limited to third-party claims
  • Customer's indemnification obligations are not the exclusive remedy for indemnifiable claims
  • Customer's indemnification includes the obligation to provide a defense
  • Customer's indemnification includes the obligation to hold harmless

Limitations, conditions, or exclusions

  • Obligations include conditions regarding Customer's cooperation or Lenovo's control of the defense
  • Obligations include conditions regarding Customer's use of the services in breach of the contract
  • Lenovo's IP indemnity does not cover claims resulting from modifications, combinations, or use of an outdated version of the service
  • Lenovo's indemnity obligations include conditions regarding settlements
  • Conditions or exclusions to Lenovo's indemnification obligations that TermScout was unable to classify - see citation
  • There are time constraints on when Customer must notify Lenovo of an indemnifiable claim
  • Obligations include conditions regarding Lenovo's cooperation or Lenovo's control of the defense
  • Customer's indemnity obligations include conditions regarding settlements
  • There are time constraints on when Lenovo must notify Customer of an indemnifiable claim

Risk of loss transferred

  • The risk of loss is not tied to an Incoterm
  • Risk of loss transfers on delivery to carrier

Acceptance deemed

  • The contract does not address when acceptance is deemed

Titled transferred

  • The title transfers to customer on delivery

Warranties Offered

Other warranties

  • Lenovo warrants that the services will meet specified standards of care or conduct
  • Lenovo provides warranties regarding defects, performance, and/or features

Implied warranties

  • Lenovo disclaims some or all implied warranties

Extended warranty

  • Lenovo does not offer an extended warranty

Duration of warranties

  • At least one warranty is effective for less than a year

Pass through to third parties

  • None of Lenovo's warranties pass through to Customer's end users

Defined remedies

  • There is a specified remedy for Lenovo's breach of at least one warranty provided
  • The specified remedies for Lenovo's breach of warranty are exclusive

Warranty conditions

  • The origin of purchase and/or the identity of the purchaser is a condition to Lenovo's warranties
Data & Privacy
70% Customer Favorable

Summary

Vendor's confidential information

  • Customer must provide some protection of Lenovo's confidential information

Customer's confidential information

  • Lenovo must provide some protection of Customer's confidential information
  • Lenovo explicitly commits not to disclose Customer's confidential information, except as necessary to provide the services
  • Lenovo explicitly commits not to use Customer's confidential information, except as necessary to provide the services

Mutuality

  • All commitments concerning confidential information are mutual

Residuals clause

  • There is no residuals clause

Warranties Offered

Compliance with documentation/specifications

  • Lenovo warrants that the services will comply with certain documentation and/or specifications, but the warranty has some conditions or qualifications
Commercial & Payment Terms
50% Balanced

Buying Thresholds

Minimum order quantity

  • Lenovo does not require a minimum order quantity

Maximum order quantity

  • Lenovo does not impose a maximum order quantity

Charges and Penalties

Price increases

  • Lenovo does not reserve the right to increase prices based on manufacturing or other cost increases

Penalties on Vendor

  • Liquidated damages are not imposed on Lenovo

Penalties on Customer

  • Liquidated damages are not imposed on Customer

Orders and Availability

Availability

  • Order quantities are not subject to availability

Payment Terms

Late payment penalties

  • There are penalties for late payments

Payments due

  • Customer has at least 30 days to pay

Vendor's expenses

  • Lenovo reserves the right to bill Customer for one or more types of expenses incurred by Lenovo
  • Lenovo reserves the right to bill Customer for expenses beyond the collection of unpaid fees

Security Interests

Security interest

  • Lenovo does not reserve a security interest in the products sold to Customer
Term, Termination, & Control
70% Customer Favorable

Summary

Customer's termination rights

  • Customer has certain rights to terminate for cause
  • Customer has certain rights to terminate for convenience

Refunds

  • Customer's termination rights do not include the right to a refund

Auto-renewal

  • The contract and/or any order under it does not auto-renew

Vendor's termination and suspension rights

  • Lenovo may terminate for convenience by giving between 16 and 30 days' notice
  • Customer has between 11 and 30 days to cure a breach before Lenovo can terminate for cause
  • Lenovo may suspend Customer's access to the service for payment-related issues
IP & Ownership
80% Customer Favorable

Customer's IP

Licenses to Customer IP

  • Lenovo does not receive a license to any customer IP that is broader than necessary to provide the services

Assignment of Customer IP or work product

  • Customer does not assign any work product or other IP to Lenovo

Vendor's IP

Embedded software/firmware

  • Customer receives a right to use software and/or firmware included with or embedded in the products
  • Lenovo does not offer maintenance and/or updates for embedded software
  • Lenovo does not offer support for embedded software
Restrictions & Controls
70% Customer Favorable

Summary

Non-compete

  • There are no restrictions on Customer's ability to compete as long as Customer doesn’t violate the agreement or use the services to compete

Non-solicit

  • There are no restrictions on Customer's right to solicit

Exclusivity

  • There are no restrictions on Customer's ability to procure similar products or services from other vendors

Vendor's assignment rights

  • Lenovo is allowed to assign in the event of a merger or acquisition
  • Lenovo is allowed to assign in the event of a corporate reorganization
  • There are consent requirements restricting Lenovo's ability to assign the contract
  • Consent requirements do not apply in the event of a merger or acquisition
  • Consent requirements do not apply in the event of a corporate reorganization
  • There are no notice requirements restricting Lenovo's ability to assign the contract
  • There are no restrictions or conditions on Lenovo's right to assign to a competitor of Customer

Customer's assignment rights

  • Customer is allowed to assign in the event of a merger or acquisition
  • Customer is allowed to assign in the event of a corporate reorganization
  • There are consent requirements restricting Customer's ability to assign the contract
  • Consent requirements do not apply in the event of a merger or acquisition
  • Consent requirements do not apply in the event of a corporate reorganization
  • There are no notice requirements restricting Customer's ability to assign the contract
  • There are restrictions or conditions on Customer's right to assign to a competitor of Lenovo

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Certified Contract Reports, Explained

Verified™ contract reviews are reviews of contracts that have been carefully checked by contract experts. This review is designed to help users understand the rights and obligations associated with the Lenovo Framework Agreement (Purchase Terms) ("FA") for Lenovo. We looked at the issues found in 'Term Sheets' and did not look for any other issues.

For more information on TermScout's contract review process, visit our methodology page.

In order to qualify for Certification, a contract must meet the following criteria:

  • Achieve a TermScout rating of Balanced or Customer Favorable, and
  • Be free of all designated Deal Breaker clauses.

The difference between certified Balanced and certified Customer Favorable is the TermScout favorability rating achieved by the contract. Each of these criteria is more fully described below.

A contract is balanced when it allocates risks between the parties in a roughly equal manner, as determined by TermScout's two-step, data-driven analysis. First, we use our proprietary AI to abstract over 750 defined data points from each contract we analyze. Then, we use an algorithm to objectively score that data. Because TermScout looks at the exact same set of data points and uses the exact same scoring algorithm in every contract analysis we conduct, you can now compare contracts on an apples-to-apples basis.

This enables us to objectively rate contracts at both the agreement level and by key topic area (e.g., limitations of liability, indemnification, warranties, etc.) and show you which contracts are vendor favorable, which are customer favorable, and which are balanced.

Not all risks are created equal. Even if a contract shifts only a single risk to the buyer, the contract still may not merit certification if that risk is material enough. Examples of these types of Deal Breakers include exclusivity, complete disclaimers of liability, etc. Accordingly, TermScout will not certify a contract if it contains any of the following Deal Breaker clauses,² which TermScout identified by reference to market data and input from prominent buy-side and sell-side legal experts from TermScout's Innovation Advisory Council:

This makes it nearly impossible for a customer to recover from a vendor, no matter what goes wrong - even if the vendor violates other provisions of the contract.

Signing non-competes means contractually promising not to engage in a certain line of business. This is something most businesses want to avoid where possible.

Agreeing not to solicit a vendor's employees, customers, or vendors sounds reasonable, but it places challenging burdens on the customer to ensure they comply.

Agreeing not to procure similar services from other companies can severely hinder a company's ability to do business.

Privacy laws require companies to follow strict rules with respect to how they handle certain types of data. This clause presents major risks to a company's ability to comply with such laws.

It's extremely rare for a customer to need to assign IP rights to an IT vendor. Doing so can materially jeopardize a company's rights in its own IP.

Since most IT services today are delivered "as a service", customers often upload wide varieties of information onto vendors' servers. Confidentiality commitments are expected by most customers.

The goal of TermScout's reports is to provide users with the data necessary to make an informed decision about whether they can accept the terms. The data provided in TermScout's reports includes:

  • Term Sheet: A full report of the key rights and obligations contained in the agreement.
  • Overall Ratings: TermScout's overall impression of the favorability of the contract vis a vis the parties. These ratings are algorithmic approximations of favorability that are based on market data and the subject views of contract experts with experience in the specific type of contract.
  • Rare Clause Radar: TermScout identifies and surfaces a list of the most rare and material clauses that favor your counterparty.
  • Playbooks: Playbooks are a way of programming into TermScout's software a specific set of acceptance criteria for a contract type. All accounts have access to sample Playbooks for select templates, and Pro accounts have the ability to build custom Playbooks.
  • Comparable Contracts: We'll show a list of contracts sorted by favorability ratings and allow for the comparison of similar contracts based on position, industry, and contract type.
  • Market Data: Any right or obligation in a contract can be compared to market data for similar contract types, including data from TermScout's Contract Market Database™ of thousands of public contracts and anonymized and aggregated data from hundreds of negotiated contracts.

Certified Contract Reports contain only a subset of the above data. To access all of the data available, create a free account here and search for the desired contract in Triage.

Please note that this report focuses on the identification of terms from the contract documents listed under 'Scope of Review' and compares them against a defined set of criteria. Certain services may be subject to additional terms not available to TermScout, such as purchase orders and other deal-specific documents. You should always review the terms associated with the specific service you are using and know that TermScout's ratings generally do not cover (a) services purchased through a reseller, (b) offline variants of any of the Agreements, (c) service-specific terms that override any of the terms discussed here, or (d) free services. You also should consult your legal counsel if you have any questions about the meaning, significance or assessment of any agreement or provision.

TermScout prepared this report with an average use-case customer in mind and operated under the assumptions listed below (the "Key Assumptions"). To the extent that provisions in a contract vary based on specific circumstances that differ from the Key Assumptions, TermScout ignores those variations. Additional contract-level assumptions, if any, are disclosed in 'Notes to Customer'.

Key Assumptions

  1. Customer is an average "end user" of the service (i.e. not a partner, distributor, or developer).
  2. Customer is not a government entity.
  3. Customer is a US-based company and is using the service in the US.
  4. Customer is a paying user (i.e. not a user of free services).
  5. Customer is not using beta services.
  6. Unless otherwise noted, service-specific terms that may override or supersede the terms of the Agreement are not reviewed by TermScout.

We reviewed the FA for Lenovo and any documents specifically listed under 'Scope of Review'. For purposes of this report, "Customer" means the party contracting with Lenovo and "Vendor" means Lenovo.

References herein to the "Agreement" are to the following documents:

TermScout did not review any documents other than those listed above. If other documents form part of this Agreement, the answers provided by TermScout may be incomplete or incorrect. TermScout's accuracy commitments only cover documents specifically identified in this section.

Documents that do not form part of the Agreement:

TermScout could not find any clear language stating that these documents are incorporated by reference into the Primary Document. Documents that are not incorporated into a contract by reference may not be contractually binding; therefore, they were not reviewed by TermScout.

This TermScout review of the One Lenovo Framework Agreement takes only Attachment A, General Terms, into account.

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Legal and security teams often escalate infrastructure agreements when confidentiality obligations do not adequately reflect the sensitivity of operational, architectural, and system-level information handled by the vendor. Additional scrutiny is common when contracts contain broad internal-use exceptions, weak subcontractor restrictions, or vague handling obligations for infrastructure telemetry and operational metadata. Enterprise buyers increasingly expect infrastructure providers to maintain stronger governance controls because exposure of system-level information can create significant downstream security and continuity risks.

Procurement delays frequently occur when agreements rely heavily on external confidentiality policies, permit broad vendor reuse of operational data, or provide limited transparency into third-party access environments. Buyers also react cautiously when confidentiality obligations expire quickly or exclude categories of infrastructure-related information that are operationally sensitive. Friction increases when the contract does not clearly define how infrastructure data is retained, segregated, or shared across distributed environments and subprocessors.

Buyers typically compare confidentiality obligations against vendors supporting similar categories of hosting, networking, cloud, or operational infrastructure. Agreements generally appear more market aligned when restrictions on disclosure, access, retention, and downstream usage are operationally specific and enforceable across integrated environments. Contracts may attract additional scrutiny when confidentiality structures appear overly permissive relative to the operational dependency and infrastructure visibility granted to the vendor.

Enterprise review teams often flag agreements that permit extensive reuse of infrastructure-related operational data, limit customer oversight into third-party environments, or broadly exempt diagnostic and telemetry information from confidentiality protections. Additional concern arises when vendors reserve unilateral authority to modify handling practices without customer review. Buyers generally interpret these patterns as indicators of elevated governance complexity and long-term operational risk within critical infrastructure relationships.

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