Vertex Decisions, LLC offers to license the use of the package of political position descriptions of which these samples are a part.  That offer is extended to candidates whose views and positions are in general agreement with those described herein.  The set of position descriptions is only offered as a package.  They are not being offered at this time on an individual basis.

 

Candidate Responsibilities

With respect to the use of position descriptions in this package, candidates and/or their campaigns…

  • Need not use all of the position descriptions in the package.
  • Are free to reword and/or reformat any or all of the descriptions so that they are tailored to the views of that particular candidate. (The price of the package includes up to 10 hours of consulting time by Vertex Decisions, LLC to assist with that tailoring.  Additional consulting hours are available at the rate of $100/hour.  Consulting will be done remotely via Skype, Google Hangouts, or similar open source software unless the candidate’s campaign pays for travel by Vertex Decisions, LLC employees.)
  • Will mark as copyrighted any campaign material that is derived from these political descriptions.
  • Will, in each piece of campaign material (e.g., each campaign web site page) that is based at least in part on these descriptions, include brief language crediting Vertex Decisions, LLC as providing at least some of the material on which the candidate’s copyrighted material is based. The specific language involved will be included in the License Agreement.
  • Will not share the Vertex Decisions, LLC political position descriptions with other campaigns, either inside or outside of the candidate’s district or state, either for the same or different offices.
  • Are responsible for formatting the campaign materials that are derived from political position descriptions provided by Vertex Decisions, LLC. Those position descriptions will be provided by Vertex Decisions, LLC in the 2016 version of Microsoft Word (unless another MS Word version is specifically requested).  Each campaign will be responsible for reformatting those descriptions as needed to match, for example, its own website’s formatting standards.  This can be done relatively easily within MS Word.
  • Will identify up to three points of contact within the campaign through which all communication with Vertex Decisions, LLC will be made.

Vertex Decisions, LLC Responsibilities

  • The current set of topics for which Vertex Decisions, LLC will develop political position descriptions is listed in Section 1.2 (Political Position Description List) That list shows the descriptions that have already been written.  Vertex Decisions, LLC commits to finishing the rest of the descriptions and distributing them to the campaigns that have purchased them by February 28, 2018.
  • If Vertex Decisions, LLC updates any of the position descriptions in the package after a campaign purchases them, Vertex Decisions, LLC will provide those updates to the campaigns that have purchased them.

Political Position Pricing Structure

  • Vertex Decisions, LLC currently offers its entire package of political position descriptions for $4,000. This is considerably less than the value of the time that a campaign would have to expend to develop a comparable set of position descriptions on its own over a substantially longer period of time.
  • This package includes:
    • The position descriptions that have already been written and those that are scheduled for completion by the end of February 2018 (see the Political Position Description List in Section 1.2 above).
    • A series of short bulletins that Vertex Decisions, LLC will develop over the course of the 2018 election cycle in response to major political events, e.g., Congressional votes on the Federal Government Shutdown. These bulletins can be used as the basis for emails sent by the campaign to those on its list of supporters.  Campaigns can request the development of these bulletins on particular topics of national interest as major events transpire in the coming months.
  • If a campaign wants the exclusive rights to use the Vertex Decisions, LLC position descriptions within a race (e.g., within the race for a US House of Representatives seat in a particular district), then Vertex Decisions, LLC will charge an additional $1000.
    • There will also be conditions for this exclusive use that will center on the extent to which the candidate and campaign commits to not substantively deviate from key provisions of some of the position descriptions identified by Vertex Decisions, LLC.
    • Vertex Decisions, LLC reserves the right to offer exclusive use of its political position descriptions to the candidate/campaign in a particular race that is most closely aligned with those political position descriptions.
  • As indicated above, the price of the package includes up to 10 hours of consulting time by Vertex Decisions, LLC to assist with tailoring the version of the position descriptions provided by Vertex Decisions, LLC to more closely fit the views of the candidate/campaign. Additional consulting hours are available at the rate of $100/hour.  Consulting will be done remotely via Skype, Google Hangouts, or similar open source software, unless the candidate’s campaign pays for travel by a Vertex Decisions, LLC employee.
  • These prices are for the use of the position descriptions during primary and general elections in the 2018 election cycle only. Vertex Decisions, LLC will offer extensions to the licensing agreement for later election cycles at substantially discounted rates.
  • After a signed License Agreement is in place, Vertex Decisions, LLC will send the position descriptions to the campaign within 48 hours of having received a check for the appropriate amount and receiving bank verification that the check has cleared.