RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

12 Months Ended

Feb. 02, 2024

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Allocated Expenses

For the periods presented, Dell has provided various corporate services to Secureworks in the ordinary course of business. The costs of services provided to Secureworks by Dell are governed by a shared services agreement between Secureworks and Dell Inc. The total amounts of the charges under the shared services agreement with Dell were $2.9 million, $3.8 million, and $3.8 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively. Management believes that the basis on which the expenses have been allocated is a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services provided to or the benefit received by the Company during the periods presented.

Related Party Arrangements

For the periods presented, related party transactions and activities involving Dell Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries were not always consummated on terms equivalent to those that would prevail in an arm’s-length transaction where conditions of competitive, free-market dealing may exist.

The Company purchases computer equipment for internal use from Dell Inc. and its subsidiaries that is capitalized within property and equipment in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Position. Purchases of computer equipment from Dell and EMC Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell that provides enterprise software and storage, or EMC, totaled $0.5 million, $0.9 million, and $0.7 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively.

EMC previously maintained a majority ownership interest in VMware, Inc., or VMware, a company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services. The Company’s purchases of annual maintenance services, software licenses and hardware systems for internal use from Dell, EMC and VMware totaled $0.9 million, $1.1 million, and $1.6 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively. On November 1, 2021, Dell Technologies completed its spin-off of all shares of common stock of VMware that were beneficially owned by Dell Technologies and its subsidiaries, including EMC, to Dell Technologies’ stockholders. As a result of the spin-off transaction, the businesses of VMware were separated from the remaining businesses of Dell Technologies, although Michael S. Dell, the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and majority stockholder of Dell Technologies, continued to serve as Chairman of the Board of VMware until VMware was acquired by Broadcom Inc. on November 22, 2023.

The Company recognized revenue related to solutions provided to VMware that totaled $0.5 million, $0.6 million and $0.5 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023 and January 28, 2022, respectively. In October 2019, VMware acquired Carbon Black Inc., a security business with which the Company had an existing commercial relationship. Purchases by the Company of solutions from Carbon Black totaled $2.0 million, $2.9 million, and $6.2 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively.

The Company also recognized revenue related to solutions provided to significant beneficial owners of Secureworks common stock, which include Mr. Dell and affiliates of Mr. Dell. The revenues recognized by the Company from solutions provided to Mr. Dell, MSD Capital, L.P. (a firm founded for the purposes of managing investments of Mr. Dell and his family), DFI Resources LLC, an entity affiliated with Mr. Dell, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation totaled $0.2 million, $0.3 million, and $0.2 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively.

The Company provides solutions to certain customers whose contractual relationships have historically been with Dell rather than Secureworks, although the Company has the primary responsibility to provide the services. Effective August 1, 2015, in connection with the IPO, many of such customer contracts were transferred from Dell to the Company, forming a direct contractual relationship between the Company and the end customer. For customers whose contracts have not yet been transferred or whose contracts were subsequently originated through Dell under a reseller agreement, the Company recognized revenues of approximately $56.6 million, $65.0 million, and $61.7 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively. In addition, as of February 2, 2024, the Company had approximately $2.9 million of contingent obligations to Dell related to outstanding performance bonds for certain customer contracts which Dell issued on behalf of the Company. These contingent obligations are not recognized as liabilities on the Company’s financial statements.

As the Company’s customer and on behalf of certain of its own customers, Dell also purchases solutions from the Company. The Company recognized revenues from such purchases of approximately $0.9 million, $4.6 million, and $11.7 million for the fiscal years ended February 2, 2024, February 3, 2023, and January 28, 2022, respectively.

As a result of the foregoing related party arrangements, the Company has recorded the following related party balances in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as of February 2, 2024 and February 3, 2023:

	February 2, 2024		February 3, 2023
	(in thousands)
Related party payable (in accrued and other current liabilities)	$	4,868	$	1,141
Accounts receivable from customers under reseller agreements with Dell (in accounts receivable, net)	$	5,748	$	5,584
Net operating loss tax sharing receivable under agreement with Dell (in other current assets)	$	4,976	$	3,472