Using one question of Donald Kettl's smart-buyer problem as the basis of investigation, this study empirically examines the relationship between five selected services contract characteristics related to requirements and evaluation ratings of 120 federal information technology investments. The five contract characteristics selected for investigation were: Contract Type, Extent Competed, Performance-Based Acquisition, Integrated Process Team, and Program Manager Qualification. Analysis of these characteristics is relevant because current federal acquisition policy advocates particular contract characteristics as the preferred methods of procurement and others as widely accepted best practices. The five selected contract characteristics were analyzed for over 200 information technology services contracts using two separate statistical tests and four variants of information technology investment ratings as the dependent variable. Empirical evidence failed to reject the null hypothesis that there is no statistically significant correlation between selected service contract characteristics related to contract requirements and investment ratings. This failure of rejection through multiple tests led to the conclusion that service contract requirements are not better defined in cases when they should be based on selected contract characteristics. In order to better inform and understand the quantitative findings, interviews were conducted with over 20 senior acquisition and information technology executives representing 11 different federal departments and industry. None of the senior executives interviewed disputed the null finding and nearly 70 percent of subject matter experts interviewed were unsurprised that the selected service contract characteristics did not correlate with investment ratings. The lack of correlation between selected contract characteristics related to requirements and investment ratings indicates that service contract requirements definition is a significant problem for federal agencies. That conclusion was confirmed by interviews with senior subject matter experts who consistently stated that accurately defining and managing information technology service contract requirements is a genuine challenge facing the federal government today. Although empirical evidence failed to reject the null hypothesis, subsequent interviews revealed other factors that may have greater bearing on requirements and acquisition program outcomes than the five selected service contract characteristics. They present promising topics that merit further research. / Ph. D.

Cizojazyčné resumé The thesis is dedicated to the matter of a bank account. The bank account is considered to be a financial product that serves for depositing of temporarilly free financial funds and primarily for realizing cashless payment system. The aim of this thesis is to provide an analysis of current applicable and effective legislation considering the bank account in Civil Code, where newly contained the bank account legislation as a result of recodification of private law. In some sections of the thesis the analysis of the legislation is accomplished in the context of the antecedent legislation in former Commercial Code. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to analyse the basis of the bank account from the point of view of legal doctrine. The second chapter provides fundamental legal charakteristic of bank account contract. This chapter describes the bank account contract as banking contract and focuses on the bank account contract from the point of view of consumer law. This chapter also provides analysis of parties of the bank account agreement. The end of the chapter discusses the general charakterization of banking terms and conditions. Third chapter provides analysis of general legislation of the bank account from the perspective of Civil Code. These legal...

- THE CURRENT ACCOUNT CONTRACT CONSIDERING GERMAN LEGISLATION In my diploma thesys I have focused on legal regulation of current account contract not only in czech law but also in german law. Is not comparison in strict sence, but just a considiration of in my opinion more exact and explicit legislation of legal institute. In introduction part I have pointed out the term of current account, its purpose and fuction. The main part is focused on applicable legislation of current account contract, its characteristic and to statutes concerning above mentioned questions (for example Act on banks, Act on payment system act). I also mention issuies of contracting parties position, management of banc account , fee for account maintenance, interest on the balance of funds on accounts, termination of contract, account owners death, payments and related deadlines for execution of payment transactions or unilateral changes to terms and conditions. I also consider to be relevant that the czech legislator introduced dual regulation of current account contract in connection with the implementation of european directive. Czech legislator distinguish between current account contract that is not a payment service contract and current account contract that is payment service contract. In my opinion this duality causes...

Šio mokslinio tiriamojo darbo tema „Atsakomybė pagal turizmo paslaugų sutartį: teismų praktikos analizė“. Darbe atskleidžiamos sutartinių santykių pagrindu kylančių teisinių ginčų galimos priežastys, vadovaujantis teismų praktikos išsamia analize - sistemiškai nagrinėjami atsakomybės pagal turizmo paslaugų sutartis ypatumai. Be kita ko, magistro baigiamajam darbe pateikiama turizmo paslaugų teikimo sutarties samprata, esminiai sutarties požymiai bei trumpai aptariami reglamentuojantys teisės aktai. Taip pat atskleidžiama atsakomybės pagal turizmo paslaugų sutartis specifika ir probleminiai klausimai. Analizuojama Lietuvos teismų praktika, atskleidžiant teismų praktikoje formuojamą atsakomybės pagal turizmo paslaugų teikimo sutartis problematiką, turizmo paslaugų teikimo sutarčių šalių teisių ir pareigų apimtį. Teismų praktikos nagrinėjimas vykdomas išskiriant kylančius teisminius ginčus į atskirų kategorijų (atskirus požymius turinčias) civilines bylas: dėl netinkamo paslaugų teikimo (kokybės, apimties ir asmenų atžvilgiu), dėl klaidinančios ar nepakankamos informacijos suteikimo, dėl kelionių organizatoriaus aplaidumo ir netinkamo atsisakymo vykdyti sutartis požymių. Mokslinio tiriamojo darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos išvados apie esamą teismų praktikos kryptį, jos formavimą ir atitikimą Bendrijos ir tarptautinės teisės aktams, taip pat vertinamas su tuo glaudžiai susijusio turizmo paslaugų sutarčių atsakomybės klausimo teisinio reglamentavimo išsamumas, nustatomos jo spragos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The theme of this scientific research work is "The liability by the tourism services contract: analysis of jurisprudence". The work highlights the contractual relationship arising from the possible causes of legal disputes, in accordance with a detailed analysis of jurisprudence – there have been systemically investigated issues of liability by the tourism service contracts. Furthermore, in the final master work there has been presented the concept of tourism service contract, the essential features of the contract and briefly described the legislation. Also there has been presented specifics of tourism and problematic issues about liability by the contracts. There has been made the analysis of the Lithuanian jurisprudence, revealing the formation of the jurisprudence (case-law) of liability by the tourism service contracts, the problems of tourism service contract’s parties rights and obligations. Analysis of the jurisprudence has been made by the distinction arising legal disputes in a separate category (with different features) civil cases: cases for the inadequate provision of services (because of the quality, coverage and persons), for misleading or insufficient information that was provided, for the travel organizer's negligence and for improper refusal to carry out the contracts. At the end of the scientific research work, there have been made the conclusions about the present direction of the jurisprudence, its development and compliance with Community and... [to full text]