MNCPPC: GIS Data Sales Agreement

The MC:MAPS Consortium agrees, that in order to provide the most unified and convenient GIS sales approach, for all those interested in purchasing Montgomery County GIS data products, that:

MC:MAPS (members represent M-NCPPC, Montgomery County Government, Montgomery College, Montgomery County Public Schools, and WSSC) is the GIS sub-commmittee of ITPCC. The GIS Sales Board is composed of designated members of MC:MAPS and will develop operating procedures for GIS data products sales.

The GIS Sales Board will provide periodic reports regarding GIS sales, products, and procedures, to ITPCC, for its review and approval.

Each agency of the Consortium can participate in the GIS data products sales initiative.

Any agency engaged in negotiations with a third party, pertaining to the marketing of the County’s GIS data, will present those plans to the GIS Sales Board. All members of MC:MAPS will be eligible to enter into any third party arrangement.

The attached GIS Data Products Price List includes all GIS data products for sale and each agency agrees to charge the prices stated on the Price List. Any member of the GIS Sales Board may add a new item for sale to the list. A majority of the GIS Sales Board must agree to the price of the new item.

Each participating agency will maintain a record of their GIS data products sales and provide a status report at the MC:MAPS meetings. The GIS Sales Board will report those figure to the ITPCC.

Any funds generated by the GIS data products sales will be transferred to M-NCPPC to be used for the maintenance of the planimetric/topographic basemaps. M-NCPPC will maintain an accounting of all funds from GIS sales transferred to them. The allocation of any funds that exceed the expense of maintaining the planimetric/topographic basemaps will be determined at a special GIS Sales Board meeting and will be applied to maintenance of other database layers or database development as specified in the countywide GIS Strategic Plan. Expenditures will be reviewed and approved by the GIS Sales Board.

MC:MAPS will provide to ITPCC an updated GIS Strategic Plan every three (3) years.

All MC:MAPS members agree to have customers sign a GIS Data Products License Agreement when an order for GIS data products is submitted.

A copying charge of $10 per tile will be collected for any GIS data request submitted by a business entity, under contract with a Consortium agency, who does not have that request filled by that agency. In addition, a signed Licensing Agreement and a letter from the agency, on the agency’s letterhead, must accompany the data request at the time the request is submitted.

Organizations with a 501(c)(3) status can purchase GIS data at a 50% reduced fee. These organizations will need to supply proper identification of their organization’s status when submitting their data request. A signed Licensing Agreement must be submitted with the data request.

The GIS Sales Board will discuss and approve any potential data exchange, whether with a private or public entity, on a case-by-case basis.

ITPCC Members
Dr. Charlene R. Nunley, President Montgomery College	Bruce Romer, CAO Montgomery County Government
Steve Farber, Staff Director County Council	William Husmann, Chairman M-NCPPC
Dr. Paul Vance, Superintendent Montgomery County Public Schools	Cortez White, General Manager WSSC
Rick Ferrara, Executive Director Housing Opportunities Commission