premise: Confidential Information means all information relating to the Project or the Contractor’s proposal for the Project and all information relating to the nature of either Party’s business, affairs or trade secrets, which either Party directly or indirectly receives or acquires from the other Party, or the other Party’s representative, either in writing or verbally (but in the case of verbal information, only that which is reduced to writing by the Disclosing Party and delivered to the Receiving Party within 10 days of the verbal disclosure), or through observation of the Project, except information falling into any one or more of the following categories: