Quality Assurance The parties endorse the underlying principles of the Company’s Quality Management System, which seeks to ensure that its services are provided in a manner which best conforms to the requirements of the contract with its customer. This requires the Company to establish and maintain, implement, train and continuously improve its procedures and processes, and the employees to follow the procedures, document their compliance and participate in the improvement process. In particular, this will require employees to regularly and reliably fill out documentation and checklists to signify that work has been carried out in accordance with the customer’s specific requirements. Where necessary, training will be provided in these activities.
No Consideration Absent Execution of this Agreement Employee understands and agrees that Employee would not receive the monies and/or benefits specified in paragraph “2” above, except for Employee’s execution of this Agreement and the fulfillment of the promises contained herein.
Manufacturing and Supply (a) Depomed shall supply Product for use in conducting Depomed’s development activities for Product in the Field and in the Territory as set forth in Exhibit D.
(b) During the four-year period beginning on the Effective Date (the “Supply Period”), Depomed shall supply and package (or have supplied and packaged) Product pursuant to this Section 4.8. Depomed will use commercially reasonable efforts to enter into a long-term Product supply agreement with [***] days after the Effective Date (the “Depomed Supply Agreement”) that will be freely assignable to Solvay or its Affiliates, successors or assigns at any time. In addition, Depomed and Solvay will negotiate and enter into a Product supply agreement with business terms substantially similar to the Depomed Supply Agreement concurrently with the execution and delivery by Depomed and [***] of the Depomed Supply Agreement (the “Solvay Supply Agreement”, and, together with the Depomed Supply Agreement, the “Supply Agreements”). The Supply Agreements will, together, contain the following provisions (among others mutually agreeable to the Parties):
(i) Under the Solvay Supply Agreement, Depomed will agree to supply Solvay with its requirements of finished, packaged Product during the Supply Period;
(ii) All manufacturing and records will be performed and maintained in accordance with specifications, cGMP and Applicable Law;
(iii) Depomed will provide reasonable assistance to Solvay in the event Solvay wishes to qualify a backup Product manufacturer;
(iv) Depomed shall [***];
(v) Solvay will pay Depomed the following amounts in connection with all activities performed by or on behalf of Depomed associated with Product manufacture and supply (other than activities specified on Exhibit D) (A) [***]% of Depomed’s out-of-pocket costs incurred in connection with such manufacture and supply of Product to Solvay, and (B) a labor charge equal to the FTE Charges for all Depomed employees allocated to the manufacture and supply of Product to Solvay, not to exceed FTE Charges for an aggregate of [***] during any given calendar quarter (and Depomed shall provide to Solvay periodic reports detailing the FTE Charges for which Solvay must pay Depomed hereunder);
Development Services During the term of this Agreement, the Provider agrees to provide to or on behalf of the Port the professional services and related items described in Exhibit A (collectively, the “Development Services”) in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The Provider specifically agrees to include at least one Port representative in any economic development negotiations or discussions in which the Provider is involved concerning (i) a port-related business prospect or (ii) a business transaction which will ultimately require Port involvement, financial or otherwise.
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