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Terms of Use
The rules for using this site, what our published information does and does not commit us to, and the limits of our liability.
1. Acceptance
These Terms of Use apply to lot9llc.com and everything published on it, including our capabilities pages, our capability statement in both web and PDF form, the blog we publish as The Brief, and its RSS feed. We call all of it "the Site." By using the Site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.
These Terms are between you and Lot 9 LLC, a Colorado limited liability company.
2. What this Site is
Lot 9 LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We resell IT hardware and software, communications and radio equipment, and medical equipment, mainly to United States federal agencies.
This Site is marketing and reference material. It exists so contracting officers, contract specialists, and prime contractors can see what we do, confirm our registration details, and reach us. It is not a store, an ordering system, or a quoting system.
3. Nothing here is an offer
Everything on this Site is general information. Descriptions of our capabilities, product lines, manufacturers, contract vehicles, lead times, and any pricing are provided for reference. None of it is an offer to sell, a quotation, a bid, a proposal, or a commitment, and none of it can be accepted so as to create a contract. Treat it as an invitation to contact us.
We are bound only in writing, off this Site. A contract forms when we submit a signed quotation, offer, or proposal in response to a specific solicitation or request and that submission is accepted on its own terms. Reading a page, sending the contact form, or exchanging email does not create a contract.
A written quote controls over this Site. If anything here conflicts with a quotation, proposal, purchase order, contract, teaming agreement, or reseller agreement between us, that document governs. Nothing in these Terms modifies any offer we submit under a federal, state, or local solicitation, or any clause incorporated into it by the Federal Acquisition Regulation or an agency supplement.
Availability and pricing move. Part numbers, configurations, lead times, and prices in the government market change constantly and are often outside our control. Anything here may be stale by the time you read it. Ask us for a current quote before relying on it for a requirement, an independent government estimate, or a market research determination.
4. Our registration details
We publish our Unique Entity ID, CAGE code, NAICS codes, and small business status because buyers ask for them. They are accurate to the best of our knowledge as of the date shown, but this Site is not the authoritative record. Verify our registration at SAM.gov and our certification through the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification program. If the government records and this Site disagree, the government records are correct.
5. No government endorsement
Lot 9 LLC is certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and a Veteran-Owned Small Business. We display the SBA certification marks to show that certification and for no other reason.
Certification is not endorsement. The Small Business Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and every other agency named or referenced on this Site do not endorse, sponsor, or approve Lot 9 LLC, our products, our services, or anything we publish here. References to agencies, contract vehicles, or solicitations do not imply any agency's approval of this Site.
6. The Brief is information, not advice
We publish The Brief as a free service for people working in federal procurement and federal IT. It summarizes published reporting about vulnerabilities, advisories, patch cycles, and procurement deadlines, and adds context about what those mean for buying decisions.
We are not a security research firm. Everything in The Brief comes from public reporting by vendors, government agencies, and news organizations, all of which we link. We read, condense, and comment. We do not test, verify, or reproduce the findings we describe.
It is not professional advice of any kind. Not cybersecurity advice, not incident response advice, not legal, compliance, procurement, or engineering advice. It is not tailored to your systems, your environment, your agency's policies, or your contractual obligations. Reading it creates no advisory, consulting, professional, or fiduciary relationship between you and Lot 9 LLC.
Verify before you act. Security information changes by the hour. Advisories get revised, severity scores get rescored, patches get pulled and reissued, deadlines shift, and different trackers legitimately report different numbers for the same event. Before acting on anything here, confirm it against the primary source: the vendor's own advisory, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, the National Vulnerability Database, or your agency's own guidance. Where we describe a remediation step or a deadline, treat it as a pointer to the primary source, not a substitute for reading it.
Deadlines and directives. Where we mention a federal remediation deadline, a Binding Operational Directive, or a compliance date, the authoritative statement is the issuing agency's own document, not our summary. Do not rely on The Brief to establish whether you are in compliance with anything.
You own what you do with it. Applying a patch, changing a configuration, taking a system offline, or choosing not to, are your decisions, in your environment, under your authority. To the fullest extent Colorado law permits, Lot 9 LLC is not liable for any loss arising from action or inaction based on The Brief, including any security incident, breach, data loss, downtime, remediation cost, missed deadline, or compliance finding.
We may be selling something related. We resell products from some of the manufacturers we write about. The Brief is editorially independent of any specific deal, but read it knowing we are a reseller and not a neutral party. We accept no payment to cover, favor, or omit any vendor or product.
Corrections. If we get something wrong, tell us through the contact form. We correct errors and mark corrected posts.
7. Links to other sites
The Brief links heavily to other people's work, which is the point of it. A typical post cites twenty or more outside sources. We do not control any of them and are not responsible for them. A link is not an endorsement. Linked sites can change, move, go behind a paywall, disappear, or become unsafe after we link to them, and their terms and privacy practices are theirs, not ours. Follow outside links at your own risk.
8. Our content
The text, layout, design, graphics, and code on this Site are owned by Lot 9 LLC or used with permission. The Lot 9 name and mark are ours.
Without asking, you may read the Site, print or save pages for your own reference, share our capability statement PDF whole and unmodified for procurement purposes, quote short excerpts from The Brief with attribution and a link back, and subscribe to the RSS feed.
Without our written permission, please do not republish a Brief post in full or in substantial part, remove our attribution, alter our capability statement and present it as ours, or use our name, logo, or content in a way suggesting we endorse you or are affiliated with you.
All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
9. Other companies' trademarks
Product and brand names appearing on this Site, including Dell Technologies, Carahsoft, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Check Point, are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. We use them only to identify the products and manufacturers we resell, source, or write about. That is a referential use and not a claim of ownership.
We are not affiliated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of these companies except where we specifically say so and describe the relationship. Where we describe an authorized reseller, partner, or distributor relationship, that description means exactly what it says and nothing more.
If you own a mark that appears here and believe our use is improper, tell us through the contact form and we will review it promptly.
10. Using the Site
This is a small business website. Please use it like one. You agree not to:
- Scrape, harvest, or systematically copy the Site, including any attempt to harvest contact details.
- Send requests at a rate that degrades the Site for other visitors.
- Submit false, misleading, or impersonated information through our contact form, or use it to send spam or malware.
- Probe, scan, or test the security of the Site, or try to get around any access control.
- Use the Site for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of United States export control laws or sanctions.
We may block access to anyone engaged in the above.
11. What you send us is not confidential
Our contact form is the way to reach us and we read everything that arrives. Please understand what it is.
It is not a secure channel. Do not send classified information, controlled unclassified information, export-controlled technical data, source selection information, protected health information, or personal information about other people. If your requirement involves any of that, say so and we will arrange an appropriate channel first.
Submissions are not confidential unless we agree in writing. Anything you send is treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary unless a signed non-disclosure agreement covers it, or the solicitation or contract you are working under makes it confidential. Marking a message "confidential" does not by itself obligate us.
Suggestions. If you send us an idea for The Brief, feedback about the Site, or a general suggestion, we may use it freely without owing you compensation or credit, and we may already be working on something similar. This does not apply to your specific requirement documents, which we use only to respond to you.
A third party handles the form. Submissions are processed by an outside form-handling service before reaching us. Our Privacy Policy explains what that means.
12. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."
We work to keep this Site accurate, but we do not promise that it is. To the fullest extent the law allows, Lot 9 LLC disclaims all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the information here is accurate, complete, or current; that the security information in The Brief is complete or correct for your systems; that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, or free of harmful components; that outside links will work or lead to safe content; or that any product, part number, configuration, price, or lead time described here is currently available on those terms.
This section is about the Site. It does not disclaim any warranty on products we actually sell you. Those are governed by your purchase order, your contract with us, the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses, and the manufacturer's own warranty.
13. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent Colorado law permits, Lot 9 LLC and its owner, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business opportunity, a missed proposal or bid deadline, procurement delay, security incident, system compromise, remediation cost, or reputational harm, arising out of your use of this Site or your reliance on anything published here. This applies even if we were told such damages were possible.
To the fullest extent Colorado law permits, our total liability for all claims arising out of the Site, taken together, will not exceed the greater of one hundred United States dollars ($100.00) or the amount you paid us, if anything, for access to the Site in the twelve months before the claim.
What this does not do. Nothing here limits liability that Colorado law does not allow us to limit, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for willful and wanton conduct, for gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any liability that may not be limited under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.
This section is about the Site. It does not limit our liability under any purchase order, contract, subcontract, or teaming agreement between us. Those are governed by their own terms and by applicable contract law.
14. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Lot 9 LLC and its owner, employees, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, or expense, including reasonable attorney fees, arising out of your use of the Site in violation of section 10, your submission of material you had no right to send us or that infringes someone's rights, or your republication or alteration of our content in violation of section 8. This does not apply to anything caused by our own conduct.
15. Availability
This Site runs on third-party hosting we do not control. We make no promise it will be available at any particular time, and we may change, suspend, or remove any part of it, including archived Brief posts, at any time without notice.
16. Governing law
These Terms and any dispute arising from them or from your use of the Site are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any lawsuit must be brought in the state or federal courts located in El Paso County, Colorado, or in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and you consent to their jurisdiction.
This section applies to the Site only. Disputes arising from a contract, subcontract, or purchase order between us are governed by that document, and where a federal contract is involved, by the Contract Disputes Act and the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses.
17. General
If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a sale or reorganization of the business. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us about your use of the Site and replace any earlier version.
18. Changes
We may update these Terms. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top and note material changes here for at least 30 days. Changes apply going forward, not backward.
19. Contacting us
Use our contact form. We do not publish an email address or phone number on this Site, deliberately, to keep them away from automated harvesting. Everything sent through the form goes directly to the owner. Use it for questions about these Terms, to report an error in a Brief post, to raise a trademark or copyright concern, or to report an accessibility barrier.
Formal legal notice, including service of process, should go to our registered agent of record for Lot 9 LLC as listed in the Colorado Secretary of State business database. That record is public and is the authoritative address for legal notice. The contact form is not a substitute for service of process and we do not agree to accept service through it.