Common use of General Activities Clause in Contracts

General Activities. The Service Provider will be responsible for the following general activities with respect to the provision of electric service to customers of the T&D System: (a) Governance (i) assigning a full-time, core Senior Management team from the Service Provider with defined responsibilities (each a “Senior Manager”) to carry out in a timely manner the Service Provider’s obligations under this Agreement and from which one such Senior Manager, located on Long Island, shall be designated as the Service Provider’s single point of contact for LIPA with decision making authority and overall oversight responsibility related to the Operations Services; (ii) assigning and supervising the Service Provider, ServCo and Subcontractor workforce consistent with the day-to-day requirements of this Agreement; and (iii) assigning and allocating physical resources consistent with the day-to-day and special occasion operational requirements of this Agreement. (b) Information Technology (i) as more fully described in Section 4.11 hereof, providing information technology systems maintenance support and improvements in accordance with strategic goals of achieving interoperability and “near plug and play” flexibility of open design and standard-based data architecture and in compliance with requirements for technical architecture, data modeling and software development life cycle; and safeguarding the system software and data. (c) Human Resources (i) providing all personnel and human resource-related services and personnel training for the Service Provider and ServCo personnel and providing emergency and other training to LIPA personnel consistent with the other services provided by the Service Provider under this Agreement, including preparing, maintaining and providing to LIPA staffing and training plans; (ii) developing and maintaining System Policies and Procedures and any other procedures necessary, appropriate or advisable relating to the provision of Operations Services hereunder, and training the Service Provider and ServCo workforce in accordance therewith; (iii) interfacing with the labor union representing any ServCo employees and management of ServCo’s labor and employee relations; Benefit Plans; (iv) administration and management of the ServCo (v) recruiting, retaining, deploying, and supervising ServCo and subcontract labor and resources; and (vi) developing safety programs, safety reports, and written procedures and practices for the Service Provider’s staff.