Payment and Invoicing 12.1. The Purchaser must pay all sums due to the Service Provider within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice.
Invoicing and Payments II.4.1 Pre-financing: Where required by Article I.5.1, the Contractor shall provide a financial guarantee in the form of a bank guarantee or equivalent supplied by a bank or an authorised financial institution (guarantor) equal to the amount indicated in the same Article to cover pre-financing under the Contract. Such guarantee may be replaced by a joint and several guarantee by a third party. The guarantor shall pay to the Agency at its request an amount corresponding to payments made by it to the Contractor which have not yet been covered by equivalent work on his part. The guarantor shall stand as first-call guarantor and shall not require the Agency to have recourse against the principal debtor (the Contractor). The guarantee shall specify that it enters into force at the latest on the date on which the Contractor receives the pre-financing. The Agency shall release the guarantor from its obligations as soon as the Contractor has demonstrated that any pre-financing has been covered by equivalent work. The guarantee shall be retained until the pre-financing has been deducted from interim payments or payment of the balance to the Contractor. It shall be released the following month. The cost of providing such guarantee shall be borne by the Contractor.
Invoicing Except as may be prohibited by Applicable Laws, Supplier will implement an electronic invoicing process upon request by DXC and at Supplier’s sole expense, to submit invoices electronically to DXC or DXC’s third-party service provider in the electronic format specified by DXC or such third-party service provider. Supplier acknowledges and agrees that use of such process may entail disclosure of information to the service provider about the purchasing relationship between DXC and the Supplier, provided that such service provider is bound by DXC to confidentiality obligations as to Supplier’s information substantially similar to those provided under these terms. If Supplier fails to implement the electronic invoicing process within a reasonable time (not to exceed ninety (90) days) after DXC’s request, DXC may withhold payment on any invoice not received electronically until such time as Supplier submits the invoice electronically.