Terms of engagement

These terms govern professional work between Adapterroutepoint (“we”, “us”) and the organisation or person who signs an engagement letter or pays an invoice for a spend review, category study, supplier study, or briefing (“you”). Using this website to read about the work is not, by itself, a contract.

Acceptance

A contract is formed when both sides sign an engagement letter, or when you pay a deposit we have invoiced after a written estimate. Website copy, rates pages, and journal articles are invitations to talk, not offers capable of immediate acceptance.

You confirm that the person who signs has authority to bind the organisation named, and that the records you provide are yours to share.

The work

We classify purchase records and return maps, notes, and briefings as described in the letter. We do not provide audit opinions, legal advice, tax advice, or software. We do not run tenders or negotiate with your suppliers unless a separate, written instruction says so.

You remain responsible for decisions taken after a briefing, including budget changes and contract awards.

Your records

You warrant that files you send do not unlawfully include personal medical data, payroll of individuals, or material that is classified under Georgian law. If we notice such material, we will stop and ask you to withdraw it.

Intellectual property

You keep ownership of your invoices, ledgers, and other source records. The findings note, maps, and boards we create for you are licensed to you for internal use, including sharing with your auditors, parent body, or supervising ministry. You may not resell them or publish them as our work without written consent, except where a public-information law in Georgia requires disclosure — in which case you will tell us so we can mark confidential supplier detail.

Our working methods, category-tree patterns used across clients, and this website remain ours.

Fees and taxes

Fees are those in the engagement letter, in GEL, excluding VAT unless the letter says otherwise. Late invoices may draw interest at the statutory rate then applicable in Georgia. Disputes about fees do not permit use of the maps until the disputed amount is paid into a mutually agreed holding arrangement or resolved.

Liability

We perform the work with the care of a competent procurement analyst in Georgia. We are not liable for indirect loss, lost grants, or failed tenders. Our aggregate liability under an engagement is limited to the fees paid for that engagement, except in cases of wilful misconduct or where Georgian law forbids a cap (including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and other mandatory rules).

We are not liable for errors that follow from incomplete, late, or misleading source files, provided we described the gap in the findings note or at the midpoint briefing.

Confidentiality

We keep your unpublished figures confidential during the engagement and for five years after, except where a court or competent Georgian authority requires disclosure, or where you have already published the same figures.

Website

Pages may change. We try to keep rates and descriptions honest; they still yield to the signed letter. We do not promise uninterrupted access to this site.

Governing law and disputes

These terms and any engagement are governed by the law of Georgia. The courts of Kutaisi have jurisdiction, without prejudice to mandatory consumer venues where you are a natural person acting outside a trade.

Contact

Adapterroutepoint, Level 10, 64 Aghmashenebeli Street, Kutaisi 4600. Telephone +995 431 555 427. Email hello@adapterroutepoint.digital.