Common use of Operational Context Clause in Contracts

Operational Context. Talk Groups are considered to be “Owned” by the agency requesting the creation of the Talk Group, similar to the ownership that applies to conventional RF resources. As the owner of the Talk Group the owning agency has the authority and control to define who can and cannot use the Talk Group and to what “degree. Traditionally this process has been primarily accomplished with “letters of authorization.” The optional method to simplify this process is for the owning agency to predefine sharing authorization, as diagrammed in the table example below. The predefined authorizations would be kept in the Talk Group spreadsheet maintained by the System Managers. These spreadsheets would be shared between the System Managers, and would be a reference available for Talk Group planning. If an agency does not pre-define sharing authorization for a particular talk group, the default will be a “P” as defined below.