definiens: and are defined as aconsulting engagement pursuant to which Evolent has been engaged by a Person to assess what wouldbe required for the Person to ( a ) acquire or develop health plan capabilities, or ( b ) expand the Person’shealth plan capabilities, or ( c ) initiate or expand the Person ’s ability to establish value - based carecontracting arrangements ( i.e., contracts that contemplate a performance - based gain share payment or aset payment to a health care provider organization for each enrolled person assigned to such provider, fora period of time, for the provision of specified care ) . Evolent shall only permitted to provide consultingservices that Evolent is permitted to provide pursuant to this Section 6.2 and Blueprint Services for aPerson and its Affiliates for up to six ( 6 ) consecutive calendar quarters on an uninterrupted basis ( i.e., theservices can not commence, cease, and recommence during that period ; Evolent should have an ongoingconsulting relationship with that Person or its Affiliates during that period ) and Evolent thereafter mustcease charging fees for any services unless the Person or one or more of its Affiliates entered into animplementation and/or long - term services contract with Evolent ( i.e., Evolent can continue providingservices to such Person and its Affiliates after such six ( 6 ) calendar - quarter period, but can not becompensated for such services unless and until the Person enters into an implementation and/or long - term services contract with Evolent ) ; - 9 -(c ) any best practices membership programs or physician practice management or bundled or unbundledphysician practice management and other physician practice management consulting services, in eachcase referred that are substantially similar to, or that are competitive with, ( i ) ABCO ’s best practicesmembership programs or ( ii ) physician practice management or other physician practice managementconsulting services that were offered by ABCO as of August 2013 ; or(d ) any services which are competitive in any material respect with any ABCO products or services at thetime the Evolent service is promoted, marketed, or sold, where ( i ) the Evolent client will ( based onreasonable documented expectations with the Evolent client at the time the contract is signed by theclient ) generate Evolent revenue less than $ 1.75 million annually, on average, across the life of the initialcontract inclusive of the implementation and long - term contract fees, ( ii ) the average annual revenue fromall long - term services contract customers signed after June 27, 2013, inclusive of implementation andlong - term services revenue, is less than $ 5.0 million each year, and ( iii ) Evolent is not required to havemore than six and three quarter ( 6.75 ) Dedicated FTEs per year, on average, across the life of the clientcontract inclusive of the implementation and long - term contract scopes . The contract length shall begin onthe date of the first implementation and/or long - term services contract and extend through the expirationof such contract . For purposes of this provision, are defined as Evolent personnel whoare either directly tracking time to the Evolent Client or are allocated to the client from the Evolent nationalsupport model during the project pricing process . For the avoidance of doubt, Evolent general andadministrative full - time employees will not be allocated to the Evolent Client or considered DedicatedFTEs . Both national support model and general and administrative cost categories and related full - timeemployees shall be defined as they existed in the Evolent WorkDay ERP system as of January 1, 2015as described on Exhibit A hereto . For purposes of this section any long - term - services contracts with non - provider customers ( i.e., employers ) that are linked to a health system Evolent client shall not count as aseparate Evolent Client for purposes of calculating Dedicated FTEs if Evolent is serving the non - providercustomer in coordination with the Evolent Client where coordination means that Evolent is providing thenon - provider customer long - term contract services similar to those provided to the Evolent Client