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Gap Inc · 10-K · For 1/28/06 · EX-10.18

Filed On 3/28/06 2:41pm ET   ·   SEC File 1-07562   ·   Accession Number 1193125-6-64998

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing     As/For/On Docs:Pgs              Issuer               Agent

 3/28/06  Gap Inc                           10-K        1/28/06   13:1591                                   RR Donnelley/FA

Annual Report   ·   Form 10-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Form 10-K for Year Ended 01/28/2006                 HTML    593K 
 2: EX-10.18    Master Services Agreement Between Registrant and    HTML  9,565K 
                          Ibm                                                    
 3: EX-10.43    Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement         HTML     26K 
 4: EX-10.77    Summary of Non-Employee Director Compensation       HTML      8K 
 5: EX-10.81    Cash Payments in Connection With December 2005      HTML     25K 
                          Option Exchange                                        
 6: EX-12       Statement Regarding Computation of Ratios           HTML     21K 
 7: EX-13       Portions of Registrant's Annual Report              HTML    320K 
 8: EX-21       Subsidiaries of Registrant                          HTML     21K 
 9: EX-23       Consent of Deloitte & Touche Llp                    HTML      6K 
10: EX-31.1     Certification of Chief Executive Officer            HTML     12K 
11: EX-31.2     Certification of Chief Financial Officer            HTML     12K 
12: EX-32.1     Certification of Chief Executive Officer            HTML      7K 
13: EX-32.2     Certification of Chief Financial Officer            HTML      7K 


EX-10.18   ·   Master Services Agreement Between Registrant and Ibm


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  Master Services Agreement between Registrant and IBM  

Exhibit 10.18

MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

THE GAP, INC.

AND

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

DATED: JANUARY 13, 2006

This document contains confidential and proprietary information of The Gap, Inc. Except with the express prior written permission of The Gap, Inc., this document and the information contained herein may not be published, disclosed, or used for any other purpose.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1.

  Definitions    2
 

1.1

   “Acceptance Test” and “Acceptance Tests”    2
 

1.2

   “Additional Resource Charge” or “ARC”    2
 

1.3

   “Affected Employees”    2
 

1.4

   “Affiliate”    2
 

1.5

   “Aggregated Service(s)”    2
 

1.6

   “Aggregate Withhold Amount”    3
 

1.7

   “Agreement”    3
 

1.8

   “Annual Services Charge”    3
 

1.9

   “Applications”    3
 

1.10

   “Approve” or “Approval”    3
 

1.11

   “Approved Reassignments”    3
 

1.12

   “Authorized Users”    3
 

1.13

   “Benchmark”    4
 

1.14

   “Benchmarker”    4
 

1.15

   “Benchmarking”    4
 

1.16

   “Best Practices”    4
 

1.17

   “Business Day(s)”    4
 

1.18

   “Business Objectives”    4
 

1.19

   “CAS”    4
 

1.20

   “Change”    4
 

1.21

   “Change Control Procedures”    4
 

1.22

   “Charges”    5
 

1.23

   “Consents”    5
 

1.24

   Contract Year”    5
 

1.25

   “Damage Limit”    5
 

1.26

   “Data Center”    5
 

1.27

   “Days”    5
 

1.28

   “Deficiencies”    5
 

1.29

   “Deliverable”    5
 

1.30

   “Disabling Device(s)”    6
 

1.31

   “Disclosing Party”    6
 

1.32

   “Documentation”    6
 

1.33

   “Egregious Act Damage”    6
 

1.34

   “Egregious Acts”    6
 

1.35

   “Embedded Supplier Proprietary Documentation”    6
 

1.36

   “Embedded Supplier Proprietary Intellectual Property”    6
 

1.37

   “Embedded Supplier Proprietary Software”    7
 

1.38

   “Embedded Supplier Third Party Documentation”    7
 

1.39

   “Embedded Supplier Third Party Intellectual Property”    7
 

1.40

   “Embedded Supplier Third Party Software”    7
 

1.41

   “Employment Claim(s)”    7

 

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1.42

   “Equipment”    7
 

1.43

   “Excluded Fields”    8
 

1.44

   “Extended Term”    8
 

1.45

   “Extraordinary Event”    8
 

1.46

   “Finally Determined”    8
 

1.47

   “Full-Time”    8
 

1.48

   “Functional Service Area”    8
 

1.49

   “Functional Service Area Statement(s) of Work”    8
 

1.50

   “Gap”    9
 

1.51

   “Gap Base Case”    9
 

1.52

   “Gap Custom Documentation”    9
 

1.53

   “Gap Custom Intellectual Property”    9
 

1.54

   “Gap Custom Software”    9
 

1.55

   “Gap Data”    9
 

1.56

   “Gap Data Center”    10
 

1.57

   “Gap Delay Claim”    10
 

1.58

   “Gap Documentation”    10
 

1.59

   “Gap Equipment”    10
 

1.60

   “Gap Infrastructure Partnership Executive”    10
 

1.61

   “Gap Infringement Claim(s)”    10
 

1.62

   “Gap Infringement Exclusions”    10
 

1.63

   “Gap Infringement Trigger”    10
 

1.64

   “Gap Initiated Policy Change”    11
 

1.65

   “Gap Intellectual Property”    11
 

1.66

   “Gap IT Environment”    11
 

1.67

   “Gap Licensed Property”    11
 

1.68

   “Gap Modified Documentation”    11
 

1.69

   “Gap Modified Intellectual Property”    11
 

1.70

   “Gap Modified Software”    11
 

1.71

   “Gap Owned Intellectual Capital”    11
 

1.72

   “Gap Policies and Procedures”    12
 

1.73

   “Gap Proprietary Documentation”    12
 

1.74

   “Gap Proprietary Intellectual Property”    12
 

1.75

   “Gap Proprietary Software”    12
 

1.76

   “Gap Regulatory Requirements”    12
 

1.77

   “Gap Service Locations”    12
 

1.78

   “Gap Sites”    12
 

1.79

   “Gap Software”    13
 

1.80

   “Gap Systems”    13
 

1.81

   “Gap Third Party Claim(s)”    13
 

1.82

   “Gap Third Party Documentation”    13
 

1.83

   “Gap Third Party Intellectual Property”    13
 

1.84

   “Gap Third Party Software”    13
 

1.85

   “Gap Third Party Vendor”    13

 

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1.86

   “Generally Available”    13
 

1.87

   “GID”    14
 

1.88

   “HIPAA”    14
 

1.89

   “HVAC”    14
 

1.90

   “Implementation Agreement(s)”    14
 

1.91

   “Including”    14
 

1.92

   “Income Tax”    14
 

1.93

   “Initial Term”    14
 

1.94

   “Initiation Date”    14
 

1.95

   “insource”    15
 

1.96

   “Intellectual Property”    15
 

1.97

   “Interface(s)”    15
 

1.98

   “*”    15
 

1.99

   “Managed Strategic Supplier”    15
 

1.100

   “Material Move”    15
 

1.101

   “Migrated Service(s)”    16
 

1.102

   “Monthly Baseline”    16
 

1.103

   “Monthly Performance Review”    16
 

1.104

   “Moral Rights”    16
 

1.105

   “New Services”    16
 

1.106

   “New Sourcing Line(s)”    16
 

1.107

   “Non-Recurring Initiatives”    16
 

1.108

   “Non-Referral Quarter”    16
 

1.109

   “Notice of Failure”    17
 

1.110

   “Object Code”    17
 

1.111

   “Open Source Software”    17
 

1.112

   “Parties” or “Party”    17
 

1.113

   “Permitted Auditors”    17
 

1.114

   “PHI”    17
 

1.115

   “Primary Event”    17
 

1.116

   “Procedures Manual”    17
 

1.117

   “Project”    18
 

1.118

   “Proprietary or Confidential Information”    18
 

1.119

   “Provisioned”    18
 

1.120

   “Quarterly Executive Meetings”    18
 

1.121

   “Receiving Party”    18
 

1.122

   “Reduced Resource Credit” or “RRC”    18
 

1.123

   “Reference Date”    18
 

1.124

   “Refresh”    18
 

1.125

   “Release”    19
 

1.126

   “Residual Knowledge”    19
 

1.127

   “Resource Baseline”    19
 

1.128

   “Resource Charge”    19
 

1.129

   “Resource Unit”    19

* Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately with the Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions.

 

Gap Confidential and Proprietary Information

iii


 

1.130

   “Revisions”    19
 

1.131

   “Sarbanes-Oxley Reporting Requirements and Process”    19
 

1.132

   “Service Levels”    19
 

1.133

   “Service Level Agreement(s)”    19
 

1.134

   “Service Locations”    20
 

1.135

   “Service Taxes”    20
 

1.136

   “Services”    20
 

1.137

   “Shared Subcontractors”    21
 

1.138

   “Software”    21
 

1.139

   “Source Materials”    21
 

1.140

   “Specifications”    21
 

1.141

   “Statement(s) of Work”    21
 

1.142

   “Stranded Costs”    21
 

1.143

   “Subcontractor”    22
 

1.144

   “Supplier”    22
 

1.145

   “Supplier Assumed”    22
 

1.146

   “Supplier Data Center”    22
 

1.147

   “Supplier Documentation”    22
 

1.148

   “Supplier Embedded Items”    23
 

1.149

   “Supplier Equipment”    23
 

1.150

   “Supplier Infringement Claims”    23
 

1.151

   “Supplier Infringement Exclusions”    23
 

1.152

   “Supplier Infringement Trigger”    23
 

1.153

   “Supplier Intellectual Property”    23
 

1.154

   “Supplier Key Employee”    23
 

1.155

   “Supplier Modified Documentation”    23
 

1.156

   “Supplier Modified Intellectual Property”    24
 

1.157

   “Supplier Modified Items”    24
 

1.158

   “Supplier Modified Software”    24
 

1.159

   “Supplier’s Outsourcing Relationship Executive”    25
 

1.160

   “Supplier Personnel”    25
 

1.161

   “Supplier Proprietary Documentation”    25
 

1.162

   “Supplier Proprietary Intellectual Property”    25
 

1.163

   “Supplier Proprietary Software”    25
 

1.164

   “Supplier Reference Intellectual Property”    25
 

1.165

   “Supplier Regulatory Requirements”    26
 

1.166

   “Supplier Service Locations”    26
 

1.167

   “Supplier Shared Service Center”    26
 

1.168

   “Supplier Software”    26
 

1.169

   “Supplier Systems”    26
 

1.170

   “Supplier Third Party Claim(s)”    26
 

1.171

   “Supplier’s Remedial Acts”    26
 

1.172

   “Supplier Third Party Documentation”    26
 

1.173

   “Supplier Third Party Intellectual Property”    27

 

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   1.174    “Supplier Third Party Software”    27
   1.175    “Supplier Tools”    27
   1.176    “Technology Change”    27
   1.177    “Term”    27
   1.178    “Termination Assistance Services”    27
   1.179    “Termination Transition Period”    27
   1.180    “Termination Transition Plan”    28
   1.181    “Third Party Service(s)”    28
   1.182    “Third Party Vendor”    28
   1.183    “third source”    28
   1.184    “Transition”    28
   1.185    “Transition Period”    28
   1.186    “Transitioned Employees”    28
   1.187    “Transition-In Plan” or “Transition Plan”    28
   1.188    “UPS”    29
   1.189    “Update”    29
   1.190    “VAT Taxes”    29
   1.191    “Version”    29
   1.192    “Virus(es)”    29

2.

   Term    29
   2.1    Initial Term    29
   2.2    Options to Extend    30
   2.3    Fees During Extended Term    30

3.

   Services    30
   3.1    Services    30
   3.2    Changes in Policies and Procedures    30
   3.3    Documentation    31
   3.4    Managed Network Services    31
   3.5    Cross Functional Services    31
   3.6    End User Support Services    32
   3.7    RESERVED    32
   3.8    Server Services    32
   3.9    Store Services    32
   3.10    Transition-In    32
   3.11    Equipment    33
   3.12    Replacement Services    33
   3.13    Technology Refresh Services    33
   3.14    Software Services    34
   3.15    Licenses and Permits    34
   3.16    Knowledge Transfer and Best Practices    34
   3.17    Strategic / Business Planning and Process Implementation    35
   3.18    Budgeting Services    35

 

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   3.19    Reporting Services    35
   3.20    Data Protection and Privacy    36
   3.21    New Services    36

4.

   Single Relationship Agreement    37

5.

   Implementation Agreements    37
   5.1    Execution    37
   5.2    Order of Precedence    38
   5.3    Terms and Conditions    38
   5.4    Parental Guarantee    39
6.    Unapproved Work    39
   6.1    Gap Approval    39
   6.2    Right to Reject    40
   6.3    Failure to Obtain Approval    40
7.    Service Levels    41
   7.1    Service Level Agreements    41
   7.2    Reports    41
   7.3    Root-Cause Analysis and Resolution    41
   7.4    Cost and Efficiency Reviews    41
8.    Benchmarking    42
   8.1    Benchmarking Process    42
   8.2    Benchmark Adjustments    44

9.

   Strategic Relationship Management    45
   9.1    Definitions    45
   9.2    Managed Strategic Supplier Services    45
   9.3    Appointment as Limited Agent    47
   9.4    Lease Management    47

10.

   Service Locations    48
   10.1    Service Locations    48
   10.2    Shared Environment    48
   10.3    Safety Procedures    49
   10.4    Security Procedures    49
   10.5    Access To Gap Sites    51
   10.6    Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment    51
   10.7    Gap’s Responsibilities Regarding Utilities    51
   10.8    Supplier’s Responsibilities Regarding Facilities    52
   10.9    Physical Security    52
   10.10    Employee Services    52
   10.11    Use of Gap Sites    52

 

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   10.12    Damage to Gap Facilities, Buildings, or Grounds    53
   10.13    Use of Supplier Service Locations    53

11.

   Data Backup and Disaster Plan    54
   11.1    Data Backup    54
   11.2