Common use of Assignment Description Clause in Contracts

Assignment Description. The parties are concurrently executing and delivering three schedules (Schedules 8, 9 and 10). Together, these Schedules express an overall relationship under which the parties will collaborate on enhancing and extending Benefitfocus’ current offerings as more fully described in these Schedules and the accompanying Statements of Work. Aetna will pay Benefitfocus a fixed price of $[*] for the collection of services and software licenses described in detail in the three Schedules. Schedules 9 and 10 respectively address the subjects of software licensing and hosting to be supplied by Benefitfocus. The subject of this Schedule 8 is Services and software development work. In the initial phase, Benefitfocus shall provide subject matter experts in information technology design, development, and deployment in sufficient numbers and with sufficient knowledge and expertise to work with Aetna in the development of the specification of the information technology components of the Business Needs Analysis (“BNA”) documents for Chunk 1 of the projects identified in the Integrated Product Statement of Work, dated October 5, 2009, and as the parties subsequently may expand or modify (“Integrated Product Statement of Work”), attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit B. In later phases, using the BNA results, Benefitfocus shall contribute subject matter experts in information technology design, development, and deployment in sufficient numbers and with sufficient knowledge and expertise to define and develop application solutions that meet the needs defined in the BNAs. [*] Confidential treatment requested; certain information omitted and filed separately with the SEC. The Business Needs Analysis shall conform to the Aetna project development framework, a template for which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.