If you would like to engage us to undertake any work for you the following Standard Terms and Conditions will apply. Click here for Website Terms of Use.

HOW WE WORK
These are our Terms and Conditions which govern how we work with our clients and your agreement to work in this way is an essential condition of our engagement. If you would like to agree anything different, we are happy to discuss this with you, but any changes must be agreed in writing.

WHO WE ARE
We are Business Moves Advisory Centre, a partnership.
Our principal office is located at: 10 John Street, London WC1N 2EB.
Contact: Stuart Mitchell
Telephone: +44 (0) 1903 202754
Email: info@business-moves.com

WHAT DO WE DO
Where possible we will work for you according to an agreed client Brief or Proposal (the “Brief”). Our consultancy services include:

• Research, feasibility and cost/benefit surveys
• Location analyses and comparisons
• Premises search and acquisition
• Project planning and management
• Workplace travel planning
• Grants and incentives

OBLIGATIONS

• We will both work according to any agreed Brief.
• The advice and consultancy will be provided with reasonable care and skill on the basis of our experience and knowledge.
• To get the best results for you, we will need your full cooperation in providing access to information, your personnel and premises.
• We will use our best endeavours to work to any agreed timetable. Please work with us to achieve any given deadlines and sign off our work or requests for approval promptly.
• We may engage third parties to undertake work for you, subject to your prior approval. We will take full responsibility for our own third party consultants and sub-contractors, unless you engage them directly.

PAYMENT

• In consideration of our work for you, you will pay us the agreed fees at the agreed time, subject to any changes that we may agree in writing with you. If we have not agreed a specific budget with you our standard charges will apply.
• Unless we have agreed a specific payment timetable, our invoices are payable within 21 days of invoice.
• VAT will be charged in addition to our fees.
• We shall be entitled to vary our standard charges, by reasonable amounts, by giving you 14 days notice. This will not affect agreed fixed quotes, unless the project has been delayed by you.
• If changes have been agreed to the original Brief, or if events mean that we encounter unexpected variations in our work, we shall be entitled to charge reasonably for additional work. This is important to enable us to achieve the best results for you.
• If you fail to make a payment, we shall be entitled to suspend all work for you, to charge any due amounts immediately and to charge you interest on any outstanding amounts at the statutory rate of 8% above the Bank of England base rate.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• If we have agreed to archive or store any materials for you, we cannot be held liable for loss, theft or damage to such materials.
• You appreciate that we are not a huge agency and that we rely on your assistance to get the right results. You acknowledge that the nature of consultancy work is that we express our opinions, but do not warrant the outcome or results of any of our recommendations. In providing our advice to you we are largely reliant on the information that you provide to us regarding your needs, preferences and circumstances. Therefore you agree that we cannot give you any warranties, indemnities or be held liable for any loss of profit, special, indirect or consequential loss or damage. Our entire liability to you (except in relation to death or personal injury) shall be capped at the amount of fees that you have paid to us for the specific project in question.

ENDING OUR RELATIONSHIP

• Our obligations to you will naturally end once all agreed work has been completed and paid for. However, in certain circumstances either you or we may terminate our agreement if the other party:
• has committed any serious breach of this contract and (if it could have been remedied) has not remedied that breach within 14 days of receiving notice from the terminating party; or
• fails to pay any sum due to the other party within 21 days of receipt of an invoice; or
• becomes insolvent or bankrupt, cannot pay its debts, ceases trading or otherwise appears to be in serious financial difficulties.
• In addition to the above, you may ask to cancel the project by letting us know immediately in writing so that we can minimise the disruption caused and make the necessary arrangements.
• If you cancel the project or if we terminate it, you shall be liable to pay us for all work done to and including the date of cancellation/termination and any costs that we have already committed to (such as through general preparation work, booking subcontractors, and booking time for our own personnel which cannot be easily transferred to other clients etc) so far as they are unrecoverable. We will do our best to minimise these costs. Any advance payment that you have made to us for work on the project shall only be refundable to you once we have deducted all of the above costs from any unused part of such payment.
• Termination or cancellation shall not affect the accrued rights and remedies of either of us up to such point.

PROBLEMS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL
If either of us is affected by problems beyond our reasonable control (such as act of God, war or military action, terrorism, sanction, strike, fire, natural disaster etc) they must let the other party know immediately. Neither of us shall be liable to the other for delays in the performance or for non-performance of our obligations to each other in these circumstances and we shall agree on how to handle the situation in good faith with each other.

GENERAL LEGAL MATTERS

• This contract will not create a partnership between us.
• Neither of us intends that any term of this contract shall be enforceable by a third party, under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
• If either of us allows the other leeway on any obligation owed under this contract, this shall not imply any waiver of any rights under this agreement.
• We may change these terms and conditions at any time by giving you 14 days’ written notice.
• This contract may only be amended in writing.
• English law will apply to this contract and any court proceedings will be dealt with by the English Courts.