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U.S. Government Agreements, Grants and Licenses
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
U.S. Government Agreements, Grants and Licenses  
U.S. Government Agreements, Grants and Licenses

Note 12 – U.S. Government Agreements, Grants and Licenses

Operation Warp Speed

In July 2020, the Company entered into a Project Agreement (the “Project Agreement”) with Advanced Technology International, Inc. (“ATI”), the Consortium Management Firm acting on behalf of the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium in connection with OWS. OWS is a partnership among components of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Defense working to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. The Project Agreement relates to the Base Agreement the Company entered into with ATI in June 2020 (the “Base Agreement”, together with the Project Agreement, the “OWS Agreement”). Under the OWS Agreement, the Company is entitled to receive funding of up to $1.6 billion to support certain activities related to the development of NVX-CoV2373 and the manufacture and delivery of the vaccine candidate to the U.S. Government. Pursuant to the OWS Agreement, the Company is currently authorized to make expenditures or incur obligations of up to $800 million, and the parties have committed to negotiate a definitive agreement by December 2020 that provides for aggregate costs payable to the Company up to but not in excess of the approved budget of $1.6 billion. If the parties have not agreed on definitive pricing or other terms by December 2020, or any extension of such target date granted by the U.S. Government, the U.S. Government has the discretion to unilaterally determine a fair and reasonable price for completion of the definitive agreement.

The OWS Agreement requires the Company to conduct certain clinical, regulatory and other activities, including a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy of NVX-CoV2373, and to manufacture and deliver to the U.S. Government 100 million doses of the vaccine candidate. Funding under the OWS Agreement is payable to the Company for various development, clinical trial, manufacturing, regulatory and other activities. The OWS Agreement contains terms and conditions that are customary for U.S. Government agreements of this nature, including provisions giving the U.S. Government the right to terminate the Base Agreement and/or the Project Agreement based on a

reasonable determination that the funded project will not produce beneficial results commensurate with the expenditure of resources and that termination would be in the U.S. Government’s interest. If the Project Agreement is terminated prior to completion, the Company is entitled to be paid for work performed and costs or obligations incurred prior to termination and consistent with the terms of the OWS Agreement. The performance period under the Project Agreement extends from July 2020 through December 2021, subject to early termination by the U.S. Government or extension by mutual agreement of the parties. During the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized revenue from the OWS Agreement of $39.4 million.

U.S. Department of Defense

In June 2020, the Company entered into a letter contract (the “DoD Contract”) with the DoD Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (“JPEO-CRBND-EB”), under which JPEO-CRBND-EB agreed to provide funding of up to $60.0 million to the Company to support the manufacture of NVX-CoV2373. Under the DoD Contract, the Company is currently authorized to make expenditures or incur obligations up to $30.0 million, and the Company and the DoD have committed to negotiate a definitive cost-reimbursement contract by December 2020 that provides for costs payable by the DoD not to exceed $60.0 million. If the Company and the DoD have not agreed on pricing or terms by December 2020, or any extension of such target date granted by the DoD, the DoD has the discretion to determine a reasonable price or fee for completion of the contract.

Under the DoD Contract, the Company is expected to deliver 10 million doses of NVX-CoV2373 to the DoD. The 10 million doses of NVX-CoV2373 may be used in Phase 2/3 clinical trials or under an Emergency Use Authorization, if approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). Pursuant to the DoD Contract, if NVX-CoV2373 is approved by the FDA, the DoD is entitled to most-favored customer status for a period of five years from the award of the DoD Contract, meaning that the Company cannot give any comparable commercial client in the United States more favorable pricing than the DoD under similar transactional circumstances. During the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized revenue from the DoD Contract of $3.6 million and $3.9 million, respectively.

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

In May 2020, the Company entered into a restated funding agreement which was modified in November 2020 (the “CEPI Funding Agreement”) with CEPI, under which CEPI agreed to provide funding of up to $399.5 million to the Company to support the development of NVX-CoV2373, in addition to the $3.9 million of funding CEPI provided to the Company pursuant to an initial funding agreement entered into between the Company and CEPI in March 2020. The  CEPI Funding Agreement provides up to $257.0 million in Grant Funding and up to $142.5 million in Forgivable Loan Funding, which loans are in the form of one or more forgivable no interest term loans in order to prepay certain manufacturing activities and are not subject to restrictive or financial covenants. The Company is only required to repay any CEPI Forgivable Loan Funding under certain circumstances to the extent it sells doses of NVX-CoV2373, produced with the funds provided and included in such loan(s), to a third party.

Under the terms of the CEPI Funding Agreement, among other things, the Company and CEPI agreed on the importance of global equitable access to any vaccines produced pursuant to the CEPI Funding Agreement. Any such vaccines, if approved, are expected to be procured and allocated through global mechanisms under discussion as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, an international initiative launched by the World Health Organization (“WHO”), Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, CEPI and other global non-governmental organizations and governmental leaders in 2020.

The scope and continuation of the CEPI Funding Agreement may be modified depending on ongoing developments of the COVID-19 outbreak and the success of NVX-CoV2373 relative to other third-party COVID-19 vaccine candidates or treatments. If the WHO, CEPI or a regulatory authority having jurisdiction over a clinical trial of NVX-CoV2373 determines that a third-party product candidate has substantially greater potential than a Company vaccine product, the Company must cease its clinical trial in the relevant region, and will be reimbursed for any costs incurred as a result thereof. In addition, CEPI has the right to unilaterally terminate the CEPI Funding Agreement if CEPI reasonably determines that (i) there are material safety, regulatory or ethical issues with the development of NVX-CoV2373, (ii) NVX-CoV2373 development should be limited in scope or terminated, (iii) the Company becomes unable to discharge its obligations under the agreement, (iv) the Company fails to meet certain milestones, or (v) the Company commits fraud or a financial irregularity.

Payments received in advance that are related to future performance are deferred and recognized as revenue when the research and development activities are performed. Cash payments received under the funding agreements are restricted as to their use until expenditures contemplated in the funding agreements are incurred. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized revenue from the funding agreements of $111.3 million and $147.8 million, respectively.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

In support of the Company's development of ResVaxTM, in September 2015, the Company entered into the grant agreement with BMGF (the “BMGF Grant Agreement”), under which it was awarded a grant totaling up to $89.1 million (the “Grant”). The Grant supports ResVax development activities, including the Company's global Phase 3 clinical trial in pregnant women in their third trimester and other regulatory efforts. Unless terminated earlier by BMGF, the BMGF Grant Agreement will continue in effect until the end of 2021. The Company concurrently entered into a Global Access Commitments Agreement (“GACA”) with BMGF as a part of the BMGF Grant Agreement. Under the terms of the GACA, among other things, the Company agreed to make a certain amount of ResVax available and accessible at affordable pricing to people in certain low- and middle-income countries. Unless terminated earlier by BMGF, the GACA will continue in effect until the later of 15 years from its effective date, or 10 years after the first sale of a product under defined circumstances. The term of the GACA may be extended in certain circumstances, by a period of up to five additional years.

In July 2020, the Company entered into a grant agreement with BMGF (the “BMGF SA Grant Agreement”) under which it was awarded a grant of $15.0 million to support a Phase 2b clinical trial in the Republic of South Africa to evaluate the safety, immunogenicity, and potential efficacy of NVX-CoV2373.

Payments received in advance that are related to future performance are deferred and recognized as revenue when the research and development activities are performed. Cash payments received under the BMGF Grant Agreement and the BMGF SA Grant Agreement are restricted as to their use until expenditures contemplated in the agreements are incurred. During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized revenue from the BMGF Grant Agreement of less than $0.1 million and $0.4 million, respectively, and has recognized approximately $82 million in revenue since the inception of the agreement. During the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized revenue from the BMGF SA Grant Agreement of $2.4 million.

Serum Institute of India Private Limited

In July 2020, the Company entered into a supply and license agreement with Serum Institute of India Private Limited (“SIIPL”), as amended by the parties in September 2020, under which the Company granted exclusive and non-exclusive licenses to SIIPL for the development, co-formulation, filling and finishing, registration and commercialization by SIIPL of NVX-CoV2373. SIIPL has agreed to purchase Matrix-M adjuvant from the Company and the Company has granted SIIPL a non-exclusive license to manufacture the antigen drug substance component of NVX-CoV2373 in SIIPL’s licensed territory solely for use in the manufacture of NVX-CoV2373 under the terms of the agreement. The parties will equally split the revenue from sale of NVX-CoV2373 by SIIPL in its licensed territory, net of agreed costs. The Company granted to SIIPL (i) an exclusive license in India during the agreement, and (ii) a non-exclusive license (a) during the “Pandemic Period” (as declared by the World Health Organization), in all countries other than specified countries designated by the World Bank as upper-middle or high-income countries, with respect to which the Company retains rights, and (b) after the Pandemic Period, in only those countries designated as low or middle-income by the World Bank. Following the Pandemic Period, the Company may notify SIIPL of any bona fide opportunities for the Company

to license NVX-CoV2373 to a third party in such low and middle-income countries and SIIPL would have an opportunity to match or improve such third party terms, failing which, the Company would have the discretion to remove one or more non-exclusive countries from SIIPL’s license.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

In August 2020, the Company announced a partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) for the exclusive development, manufacturing and commercialization of NVX-CoV2373 in Japan. Takeda will receive funding from the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to support the technology transfer, establishment of infrastructure and scale-up of manufacturing. The Company will be entitled to receive payments based on the achievement of certain development and commercial milestones, as well as a portion of proceeds from the sale of the vaccine.

UK SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Supply Agreement

In October 2020, the Company entered into a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine supply agreement with The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, acting on behalf of the United Kingdom (“UK”) government (the “Authority”) under which the Authority agreed to purchase up to 60 million doses of NVX-CoV2372, plus such additional orders as the Authority may make from time to time. The Company agreed to continue to conduct its UK-based Phase 3 clinical trial of NVX-CoV2373, establish a committed supply chain for NVX-CoV2373 in the UK and seek regulatory approval for NVX-CoV2373 in the UK.

Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the Company agreed to supply the initial 60 million doses of NVX-CoV2373 to the Authority on a priority supply basis and to supply any additional orders of NVX-CoV2373 to the Authority on an equal priority basis with other third parties. The Authority has certain termination rights, or rights to reduce or cancel orders, if the Authority's supply of NVX-CoV2373 is materially interrupted, delayed or deferred.