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Collaboration, License, and Supply Agreements
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Collaborative Arrangement [Abstract]  
Collaboration, License, and Supply Agreements Revenue
The Company's accounts receivable included $71.1 million and $53.8 million related to amounts that were billed to customers and $52.6 million and $28.6 million related to amounts which had not yet been billed to customers as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, and 2022, changes in the Company’s accounts receivables, allowance for doubtful accounts, and deferred revenue balances were as follows (in thousands):
Balance, Beginning of PeriodAdditionsDeductions Balance, End of Period
Accounts receivable:
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023$96,210 $981,305 $(946,182)$131,333 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022454,993 1,519,345 (1,862,693)111,645 
Allowance for doubtful accounts(1):
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023$(13,835)$— $6,159 $(7,676)
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022— — — — 
Deferred revenue:(2)
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023$549,551 $422,766 $(171,288)$801,029 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 20221,595,472 96,298 (251,576)1,440,194 
(1)    There was no bad debt expense recorded during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 or 2022. There was a $6.2 million reversal of a bad debt allowance during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 due to the collection of a previously recognized allowance for doubtful accounts. To estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts, the Company evaluates the credit risk related to its customers based on historical loss experience, economic conditions, the aging of receivables, and customer-specific risks.
(2) Deductions from Deferred revenue generally related to the recognition of revenue once performance obligations on a contract with a customer are met. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, deductions included a $112.5 million reclassification of refundable upfront payments previously included in Deferred revenue to Other current liabilities. There were no such reclassifications during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
As of September 30, 2023, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to performance obligations that were unsatisfied (or partially unsatisfied), excluding amounts related to sales-based royalties, the Gavi APA, and the reduction in doses related to the Amended and Restated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Supply Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2022 (as amended on September 26, 2022, the “Amended and Restated UK Supply Agreement”) between the Company and the Authority, which amended and restated the Original UK Supply Agreement, was approximately $2 billion of which $801.0 million was included in Deferred revenue. Failure to meet regulatory milestones, timely obtain supportive recommendations from governmental advisory committees, or achieve product volume or delivery timing obligations under the Company’s advance purchase agreements may require the Company to refund portions of upfront and other payments or result in reduced future payments, which could adversely impact the Company’s ability to realize revenue from its unsatisfied performance obligations. The timing to fulfill performance obligations related to grant agreements will depend on the results of the Company's research and development activities, including clinical trials. The timing to fulfill performance obligations related to APAs will depend on the timing of product manufacturing, receipt of marketing authorizations for additional indications, delivery of doses based on customer demand, and the ability of the customer to request the Company’s updated vaccine in place of the prototype vaccine under certain of the Company’s APAs.
Under the terms of the Gavi APA and a separate purchase agreement between Gavi and SIIPL, 1.1 billion doses of the prototype vaccine were to be made available to countries participating in the COVAX Facility. The Company expected to manufacture and distribute 350 million doses of the prototype vaccine to countries participating under the COVAX Facility. Under a separate purchase agreement with Gavi, SIIPL was expected to manufacture and deliver the balance of the 1.1 billion doses of the prototype vaccine for low- and middle-income countries participating in the COVAX Facility. The Company expected to deliver doses with antigen and adjuvant manufactured at facilities directly funded under the Company's funding agreement with Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (“CEPI”), with initial doses supplied by SIIPL and SLS under a supply agreement. The Company expected to supply significant doses that Gavi would allocate to low-, middle- and high-income countries, subject to certain limitations, utilizing a tiered pricing schedule and Gavi could prioritize such doses to low- and middle- income countries, at lower prices. Additionally, the Company could provide additional doses of prototype vaccine, to the extent available from CEPI-funded manufacturing facilities, in the event that SIIPL could not materially deliver expected vaccine doses to the COVAX Facility. Under the agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $350.0 million from Gavi in 2021 and an additional payment of $350.0 million in 2022 related to the Company’s achieving an emergency use license for the Company’s prototype vaccine by the World Health Organization (“WHO”) (the “Advance Payment Amount”). The Company maintains that its termination of the Advance Payment Amount was valid and denies that Gavi is entitled to a refund.
On November 18, 2022, the Company delivered written notice to Gavi to terminate the Gavi APA on the basis of Gavi’s failure to procure the purchase of 350 million doses of the Company’s prototype vaccine from the Company as required by the Gavi APA. As of November 18, 2022, the Company had only received orders under the Gavi APA for approximately 2 million doses. On December 2, 2022, Gavi issued a written notice purporting to terminate the Gavi APA based on Gavi’s contention that the Company repudiated the agreement and, therefore, materially breached the Gavi APA. Gavi also contends that, based on its purported termination of the Gavi APA, it is entitled to a refund of the Advance Payment Amount less any amounts that have been credited against the purchase price for binding orders placed by a buyer participating in the COVAX Facility. Since December 31, 2022, the remaining Gavi Advance Payment Amount, which is $696.4 million as of September 30, 2023, pending resolution of the dispute with Gavi related to a return of the remaining Advance Payment Amount, has been classified within Other current liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. On January 24, 2023, Gavi filed a demand for arbitration with the International Court of Arbitration based on the claims described above. The Company filed its Answer and Counterclaims on March 2, 2023. On April 5, 2023, Gavi filed its Reply to the Company’s Counterclaims. The arbitration hearing is scheduled for July 2024, with a written decision to follow. Arbitration is inherently uncertain, and while the Company believes that it is entitled to retain the remaining Advance Payment Amount received from Gavi, it is possible that it could be required to refund all or a portion of the remaining Advance Payment Amount from Gavi.
Product Sales
Product sales by the Company’s customer’s geographic location was as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
September 30,		Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2023202220232022
North America
$2,231 $129,718 $2,231 $194,480 
Europe— 347,005 59,322 760,750 
Rest of the world
— 149,368 218,384 311,944 
Total product sales revenue$2,231 $626,091 $279,937 $1,267,174 
In May 2023, the Company extended a credit for certain doses delivered in 2022 that qualified for replacement under the contract with the Australian government. This credit is the result of a single lot sold to the Australian government that upon pre-planned 6-month stability testing was found to have fallen below the defined specifications and the lot therefore was removed from the market. The credit will be applied against the future sale of doses to the customer and, during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded a reduction of $64.7 million in product sales, with a corresponding increase to Deferred revenue, non-current.
In April 2023, the Company amended the Canada APA to forfeit certain doses originally scheduled for delivery in 2022 for a payment of $100.4 million received in the second quarter of 2023. On June 30, 2023, the Company entered into an additional amendment (the “June 2023 Amendment”) to the Canada APA. Pursuant to the June 2023 Amendment, the parties revised the Canadian government’s previous commitment by (i) forfeiting certain doses of COVID-19 Vaccine previously scheduled for delivery, (ii) reducing the amount of doses of COVID-19 Vaccine due for delivery, (iii) revising the delivery schedule for the remaining doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to be delivered, and (iv) requiring use of the Biologics Manufacturing Centre (“BMC”) Inc. to produce bulk antigen for doses in 2024 and 2025. In connection with the forfeiture of doses of COVID-19 Vaccine, the Canadian government agreed to pay a total amount of $349.6 million to the Company in two equal installments in 2023, which total amount equals the remaining balance owed by the Canadian government with respect to such forfeited vaccine doses. The first installment was payable upon execution of the June 2023 Amendment and the second installment is contingent and payable upon the Company’s delivery of vaccine doses in the second half of 2023. The first installment of $174.8 million was received from the Canadian government in July 2023. If the Company fails to deliver COVID-19 Vaccine doses to the Canadian government in the fourth quarter of 2023, the second installment payment of $174.8 million will be terminated and not be payable to the Company. The Canadian government may terminate the Canada APA, as amended, if the Company fails to achieve regulatory approval for use of BMC for COVID-19 Vaccine production on or before December 31, 2024. The June 2023 Amendment maintained the total contract value of the original Canada APA. Pursuant to the June 2023 Amendment, the Company and the Canadian government will endeavor to expand the Company’s previously agreed in-country commitment to Canada and to further partner to provide health, economic, and future pandemic preparedness benefits to Canada, which value may be provided through a number of activities, including without limitation, capital investments, the performance of activities or services, or the provision of technology or intellectual property licenses. Further, the parties will endeavor to enter into a memorandum of understanding (the “MOU”) to illustrate the Company’s ability to deliver such benefits over a 15-year period with an aggregate value of not less than 100% of the amount remaining to be paid under the June 2023 Amendment and ultimately received by the Company. As of September 30, 2023, the Company is in the process of negotiating the MOU. The Company agreed to hold $20.0 million in escrow for the benefit of the Canadian government, which amount is the sole recourse available to the Canadian government in the event of non-performance under the MOU.
Grants
The Company’s U.S. government agreement consists of a Project Agreement (the “Project Agreement”) and a Base Agreement with Advanced Technology International, the Consortium Management Firm acting on behalf of the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium in connection with the partnership formerly known as Operation Warp Speed (the Base Agreement together with the Project Agreement the “USG Agreement”). In February 2023, in connection with the execution of Modification 17 to the Project Agreement (“Modification 17”), the U.S. government indicated to the Company that the award may not be extended past its current period of performance, which is December 31, 2023. Also, Modification 17 included provisions requiring that the payment of up to $60.0 million of consideration associated with manufacturing work now be contingent upon meeting certain milestones, including the delivery of up to 1.5 million doses of its prototype vaccine and
development and regulatory milestones related to commercial readiness, expansion of the EUA and development of multiple vial presentations. As of September 30, 2023, the Company now expects to be entitled to the full $1.8 billion-funding under the USG Agreement by December 31, 2023, and accordingly, the Company recognized a $43.8 million cumulative increase to grant revenue under the contract during the three months ended September 30, 2023.
Royalties and Other
Royalties and other includes royalty milestone payments, sales-based royalties, and Matrix-M™ adjuvant sales.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized $6.0 million revenue related to sales-based royalties, and $13.8 million and $17.0 million, respectively in revenue related to a Matrix-M™ adjuvant sales. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company did not recognize revenue related to milestone payments.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized no revenue and $20.0 million, respectively, related to milestone payments, $1.3 million and $10.5 million, respectively, related to sales-based royalties, and $1.0 million and $13.4 million, respectively, related to a Matrix-M™ adjuvant sales.
Collaboration, License, and Supply Agreements
SIIPL
The Company previously granted SIIPL exclusive and non-exclusive licenses for the development, co-formulation, filling and finishing, registration, and commercialization of its prototype vaccine, its proprietary COVID-19 variant antigen candidate(s), its quadrivalent influenza vaccine candidate, and its CIC vaccine candidate. SIIPL agreed to purchase the Company's Matrix-M™ adjuvant and the Company granted SIIPL a non-exclusive license to manufacture the antigen drug substance component of the Company’s COVID-19 Vaccine in SIIPL’s licensed territory solely for use in the manufacture of COVID-19 Vaccine. The Company and SIIPL equally split the revenue from SIIPL’s sale of COVID-19 Vaccine in its licensed territory, net of agreed costs. The Company also has a supply agreement with SIIPL and SLS under which SIIPL and SLS supply the Company with prototype vaccine, its proprietary COVID-19 variant antigen candidate(s), its quadrivalent influenza vaccine candidate, and its CIC vaccine candidate for commercialization and sale in certain territories, as well as a contract development manufacture agreement with SLS, under which SLS manufactures and supplies finished vaccine product to the Company using antigen drug substance and Matrix-M™ adjuvant supplied by the Company. In March 2020, the Company entered into an agreement with SIIPL that granted SIIPL a non-exclusive license for the use of Matrix-M™ adjuvant supplied by the Company to develop, manufacture, and commercialize R21, a malaria candidate developed by the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford (“R21/Malaria”). Under the agreement, SIIPL purchases the Company's Matrix-M™ adjuvant for use in development activities at cost and for commercial purposes at a tiered commercial supply price, and pays a royalty in the single-to low- double-digit range based on vaccine sales for a period of 15 years after the first commercial sale of the vaccine in each country.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
The Company has a collaboration and license agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) under which the Company granted Takeda an exclusive license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize the Company’s COVID-19 Vaccine in Japan. Under the agreement, Takeda purchases Matrix-M™ adjuvant from the Company to manufacture doses of COVID-19 Vaccine, and the Company is entitled to receive milestone and sales-based royalty payments from Takeda based on the achievement of certain development and commercial milestones, as well as a portion of net profits from the sale of COVID-19 Vaccine. In September 2021, Takeda finalized an agreement with the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ("MHLW") for the purchase of 150 million doses of its prototype vaccine. In February 2023, MHLW canceled the remainder of doses under its agreement with Takeda. As a result, it is uncertain whether the Company will receive future sales-based royalty payments from Takeda under the terms and conditions of their current collaboration and licensing agreement.
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
In May 2023, the Company entered into a 3-year agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
to provide the Company’s Matrix-M™ adjuvant for use in preclinical vaccine research.
SK bioscience, Co., Ltd
In February 2021, the Company entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement (“CLA”) with SK bioscience, Co., Ltd. (“SK”) to manufacture and commercialize its prototype vaccine for sale to the government of South Korea. The CLA was amended in December 2021 and July 2022 to include the sale of its prototype vaccine to Thailand and Vietnam and to supply the Company with the antigen component of prototype vaccine for use in the final drug product globally, including product to be distributed by the COVAX Facility. Under the CLA, as amended, SK agreed to pay the Company a royalty on the sale of its prototype vaccine in the low to middle double-digit range. The CLA was in addition to the Company's existing manufacturing arrangement with SK under a Development and Supply Agreement (“DSA”) entered into in August 2020. In July 2022, the Company signed an additional agreement with SK for the technology transfer of the Company’s proprietary COVID-19 variant antigen materials so that SK can manufacture the drug substance targeting COVID-19 variants, including the Omicron subvariants. The companies also signed an agreement to manufacture and supply its prototype vaccine in a prefilled syringe.
In June 2023, the Company entered into a material transfer agreement with SK for the use by SK of the Company’s Matrix-M™ adjuvant in preclinical vaccine experiments for shingles, influenza, and pan-COVID-19.
In August 2023, the Company and SK entered into a Settlement Agreement and General Release (the “Settlement Agreement”) regarding mutual release by the parties of all claims arising from or in relation to statements of work (“SOWs”) canceled by the Company under the DSA and the CLA (collectively the “Business Agreements”), and other SOWs under the Business Agreements (collectively, the “Subject SOWs”), in each case, in connection with the cessation of all drug substance and drug product manufacturing activity at SK for supply to the Company. Subject SOWs canceled by the Company under the Settlement Agreement included (i) Statement of Work No. 1 dated as of December 23, 2021 as amended to date under the CLA; (ii) Statement of Work No. 5 dated as of July 18, 2022 under the DSA; and (iii) Statement of Work No. 6 dated as of July 18, 2022, and as amended as of December 28, 2022 under the DSA.
Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Company is responsible for payment of $149.8 million to SK in connection with the cancellation of manufacturing activity for the SOWs under the Business Agreements, of which (i) $130.4 million was paid in August 2023 and (ii) the remaining balance is to be paid on or before November 15, 2023. Under the Settlement Agreement, the Company and SK agreed to a wind down plan with respect to the remaining products, materials and equipment under the SOWs.
Under the Settlement Agreement, the Company and SK agreed to remove certain restrictions under the CLA that have been triggered by the launch of SK’s competing vaccine SKYCovione™ in the Republic of Korea. In addition, the Company agreed to extend the term of an exclusive license to SK under the CLA for the exploitation of antigen and vaccine products utilizing Company’s proprietary coronavirus vaccine antigens and Matrix-M adjuvant in certain territories. The Company recorded $4.0 million to Deferred revenue related to the extended licenses granted to SK under the Settlement Agreement.
In August 2023, the Company also entered into a Securities Subscription Agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”) with SK, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue to SK, in a private placement (the “Private Placement”), 6.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”) at a price of $13.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $84.5 million. The closing of the Private Placement occurred on August 10, 2023. The fair value of the Company’s common stock on the date of closing, based on the quoted market price, was $46.5 million, which results in a premium paid by SK of approximately $38.0 million.
The Settlement Agreement and the Subscription Agreement were negotiated concurrently between the parties, and therefore were combined for accounting purposes and analyzed as a single arrangement. As a result, the Company recorded the $46.5 million fair value of common stock issued to SK, based on the quoted market price on the date of close, as an equity transaction. The remaining elements of the arrangement were deemed to relate to the settlement of the Company’s outstanding liabilities due to SK. These elements consist primarily of the cash payable to SK of $149.8 million, offset by the premium paid on the common stock purchase by SK of $38.0 million, which resulted in a net gain upon derecognition of the liabilities due to SK of $79.2 million in connection with the settlement. As a result, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded this net gain of $79.2 million between research and development expense, for $57.7 million, and cost of sales, for $21.5 million, proportionally based on the where the underlying costs were originally recorded.
Other Supply Agreements
On September 30, 2022, the Company, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies UK Limited (“FDBK”), FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas, LLC (“FDBT”), and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies USA, Inc. (“FDBU” and together with FDBK and FDBT, “Fujifilm”) entered into a Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release (the “Fujifilm Settlement Agreement”) regarding amounts due to Fujifilm in connection with the termination of manufacturing activity at FDBT under the Commercial Supply Agreement (the “CSA”) dated August 20, 2021 and Master Services Agreement dated June 30, 2020 and associated statements of work (the “MSA”) by and between the Company and Fujifilm. The MSA and CSA established the general terms and conditions applicable to Fujifilm’s manufacturing and supply activities related to the Company’s prototype vaccine under the associated statements of work.
Pursuant to the Fujifilm Settlement Agreement, the Company agreed to pay up to $185.0 million (the “Settlement Payment”) to Fujifilm in connection with cancellation of manufacturing activity at FDBT under the CSA, of which (i) $47.8 million, constituting the initial reservation fee under the CSA, was credited against the Settlement Payment on September 30, 2022 and (ii) the remaining balance is to be paid in four equal quarterly installments of $34.3 million each, which began on March 31, 2023. As of September 30, 2023, the remaining payment of $68.6 million was reflected in Accrued expenses. Under the Fujifilm Settlement Agreement, the final two quarterly installments due to Fujifilm were subject to Fujifilm’s obligation to use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate losses associated with the vacant manufacturing capacity caused by the termination of manufacturing activities at FDBT under the CSA. Any replacement revenue achieved by Fujifilm’s mitigation efforts between July 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023 would offset the final two settlement payments owed by the Company. On October 2, 2023, the Company sent a notice of breach under the Fujifilm Settlement Agreement to Fujifilm setting forth the Company’s position that Fujifilm had not used commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate losses. The Company withheld the $34.3 million installment payment due to Fujifilm on September 30, 2023, pending resolution of the issues identified in the notice of breach. On October 30, 2023, FDBT filed a demand for arbitration with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (“JAMS”) seeking payment of the third quarter installment of the Settlement Payment.
The Company continues to assess its manufacturing needs and intends to modify its global manufacturing footprint consistent with its contractual obligations to supply, and anticipated demand for, its COVID-19 Program, and in doing so, recognizes that significant costs may be incurred.