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AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT

Transition Agreement

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Title: AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT
Governing Law: Delaware     Date: 10/31/2007
Industry: Software and Programming     Sector: Technology

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT, Parties: mpc corp , gateway  inc , mpc-pro  llc
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AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT

AMENDMENT NO. 1 (this “ Amendment ”) dated as of October 24, 2007, to the Transition Services Agreement (the “ Agreement ”) among MPC-PRO, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and GATEWAY, INC., a Delaware corporation.

WHEREAS, the parties to the Agreement desire to amend the Agreement as set forth in this Amendment; and

 

ACCORDINGLY, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Amendment and the Agreement, as applicable, and for other good and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency are hereby acknowledged and intending to be legally bound hereby), the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

1.          Section 2(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

In consideration for the Services to be provided by Seller hereunder, Buyer shall pay to Seller a total fee of $6,500,000, payable as follows: (i) one payment of $723,530 due on the second Friday after the Closing Date, (ii) one payment of $805,880 due on the fourth Friday after the Closing Date, (iii) six bi-weekly installments of $764,705 due on the sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth and sixteenth Friday after the Closing Date and (iv) one payment of $382,360 due on the seventeenth Friday after the Closing Date.

 

2.          Section 2(b) of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

If any Extended Services are provided by Seller pursuant to Section 3(a), Buyer shall pay to Seller $626,592 for each week or part thereof that Seller performs such Extended Services, payable on the Friday of every week during which such Extended Services are being performed.

3.          The Schedules to the Transition Services are hereby amended and restated in their entirety as set forth in Attachment A to this Amendment.

4.          This Amendment shall constitute an amendment of the Agreement pursuant to Section 15 thereof. Except as expressly set forth in this Amendment, the Agreement is and shall continue to be in full force and effect and, as so amended hereby, is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects.

5.          This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

 

 

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6.                   This Amendment may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

MPC-PRO, LLC

By:

/s/ Jeffrey E. Fillmore

 

Name:

Jeffrey E. Fillmore

 

Title:

COO

 

 

GATEWAY, INC.

By:

/s/ John Goldsberry

 

Name:

John Goldsberry

 

Title:

SVP & CFO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 1 to Transition Services Agreement]

 

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Organization

Function

Scope of Service

Time Period

Transition Governance

 

 

 

Greg Salley

Transition Governance

      Gateway will maintain a single point of contact with authority to manage all Gateway resources in the performance of transition services.

      Gateway will maintain project leads within each functional area to monitor and manage progress against the transition project plan

      Gateway will maintain an issue escalation and resolution process through senior management to manage disputes and issues according to the terms of the Purchase Agreement.

17 weeks (120 days)

 

 

A-1

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Organization

Function

Scope of Service

Time Period

Operations

 

 

 

Kyle Price

New Product Introduction (NPI)

 

 

      Validate MRD complete

      Manage POR development and release

      Identify EOL products and develop EOL management plan

      Facilitate design readiness review

      Conduct Develop Phase Review

      Assure all Readiness reviews complete (material, manufacturing, service, etc...)

      Conduct MP/Launch Phase Review

4 weeks (30 days)

 

 

A-2

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Troy Pliska

Supply Planning

      Oversee/monitor PRO new product and feature launch “assumptions” and changes to existing offering/promos to ensure material feasibility

      Interface and collaborate with PRO forecasting team to provide intelligence driving the forecast

      Develop PRO MPS/supply plan and pass to ODMs/GCC

      Manage Clear to Build (CTB) and daily shortage allocation and procurement escalation

      Support ODM prioritization and allocation

      Services Includes PRO: DT, NB, SVR, MON, and ACCY

6 weeks (42 days)

 

 

A-3

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Troy Pliska

Configuration/Product Data Management

      PRO Part creation, setup, maintenance

      PRO AML creation, setup, maintenance

      PRO Sales BOM creation, setup, maintenance

      PRO Configuration rules setup and maintenance

      GCC Mfg BOM creation, setup, and maintenance

      Web Config “technical merchandizing” – presentation/organization of core system and options

      “What’s Changing” document creation and management to feed the web and downstream process

      Config Sheet development and maintenance for PRO contract compliance

      PRO product technical spec creation and management

      Includes system setup for Agile, JDE, GPS (OC 1.5, 2.0, 2.4), GCC QSAP

17 weeks (120 days)

 

Kyle Price

Quality

      Filed escalation support

      Manufacturing issue support

      Product HOLD and Deviation management

      Manufacturing improvement support

      Vendor 8D management

10 weeks (70 days)

 

17 weeks (120 days) for data flow process

 

 

A-4

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

Randy Johnson

Trading Company ROHS compliance

      Initiate RFI for new components

      Validate conformance to ROHS standards

      Request material composition and test reports for conformance

      Submit composition, test and certification reports to configuration management

10 weeks (70 days)

Randy Johnson

Co-marketing, supplier funding, tracking and collection

      Tracking of units purchased by commodity

      Coordinate rebate amounts through Finance

      Follow up Billing/Collection

17 weeks (120 days)


Randy Johnson

Finished goods procurement – monitors, monitor build planning and ODM management.

      Forecasting of monitor requirements for CTO demand

      Monitor IML inventory & reconcile against forecasted demand

      Forecast material requirements in support of monitors

      PO’s to support CTO build requirements

17 weeks (120 days)

Randy Johnson

Pro Accessory procurement for IML and EDI accessories

      Forecasting of accessory requirements

      Monitor IML inventory against forecasted demand

      Release PO’s to support accessories

      Manage supplier expedites

17 weeks (120 days)

Troy Pliska

Supply Planning

      Extended lead time management for PRO delivery date promising tool (JDE & OC)

      Service includes PRO: DT, NB, SVR, MON, and ACCY

17 weeks (120 days)

 

 

A-5

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Randy Johnson

 

 

Trading Company

      Evaluate CTO requirements MPS

      Forecast consolidated requirements to suppliers

      Monitor CTB for supply issues & reconcile against latest MPS

      Release purchase orders for CTO buy/sell components

      PO delivery & close out

      Monitor COA inventory & aging

      Maintain COA Pos to support build requirements

17 weeks (120 days)

Randy Johnson

E and O Trading company

      Update E&O report with current market value

      ODM interface, collection, assembly of parts liability files across CTO ODMs

      E&O reserve database management

      Quantity risk assessment

      Market recovery % assessment

      Reserve setting

      E&O disposition management & execution

      E&O PO/SO liquidation and management

      E&O disposition on-site physical count, PN verification, condition inspection, scrap verification

17 weeks (120 days)

 

 

A-6

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Troy Pliska

E&O ODM Owned

      ODM interface, collection, and assembly of part liability files across all CTO ODMs

      E&O reserve database management

      Quantity “risk” assessment

      Market recovery % assessment

      Reserve setting

      E&O disposition management and execution

      E&O PO/SO liquidation creation and management

      Includes both ODM owned-GTW liable and GTW owned at IML inventory liabilities

      E&O disposition on-site physical count, PN verification, condition inspection, scrap verification

17 weeks (120 days)

 

Kyle Price

Product Qualification

      Component Qualification (MB, Opticals, HDD, Chassis, PS, Video, add-on, etc...)

      System Qualification

      Pilot Golden Sample review

      Bug list management

      MP release support

      Sub part quality support

17 weeks (120 days)

 

 

A-7

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Kyle Price

Develop Operations

      Process DCR, sign-off in Agile, route

      Implement DCR

      Create & submit CCO for part & BOM creation

      Create & submit AML for parts & BOM

      Move to production

6 weeks (42 days)

Troy Pliska

Quote management, cost set-up, PO audit

      Interface and development of A part cost roadmap to suppliers

      PRO system/feature ODM quote development (GCC) and review/audit (ODM)

      PRO system/feature cost setup and control

      PRO price / invoice (PPV) variance tracking and analysis

      PRO 856/810 EDI workbench monitoring and resolution

17 weeks (120 days)

Troy Pliska

Pro CTO ODM management

      Monthly RFQ with Quanta & Arima

      Evaluate BOM quotes against VE costs

      Evaluate monthly layering

      Authorize layering

17 weeks (120 days)

Dave Schroeder

Inventory Management

      Inventory systems support

      BAX management

17 weeks (120 days)

Dave Schroeder

Traffic & Logistics

      Support GCC & ODM relationship through partial transition period

17 weeks (120 days)

 

 

A-8

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Dave Schroeder

Traffic & Logistics

      Production Support- Testing from Order Entry to Varsity through EDI to external parties

      Item Weight Maintenance

17 weeks (120 days)

Kyle Price

Quality Database

Use of Qpulse

17 weeks (120 days)

Gary Elasser /

Phil Osako

Software Licenses

Assistance for securing appropriate licenses to applications required for the continuing function of the GCC for which MPC has no current licensing agreement, including but not limited to:

a) SAP (26 weeks)

b) Agile

c) Softthinks

d) PC Doctor

e) Eurosoft

f) Ghost

4 weeks (30 days), unless otherwise noted in scope of service

 

 

 

A-9

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Organization

Function

Scope of Service

Time Period

Information Technology Services

 

 

17 weeks (120 days)

 

Responsible parties: Ger Purcell; Timm Hoffman; Hani Yassin

 

Information Technology services will only include break/fix, application support and maintenance and data extracts will be performed on a commercially reasonable effort basis.

This agreement will exclude all enhancements or new project efforts on behalf of Mozart

Table below outline help desk severity levels and response times:

 

 

After Transition period begins; Gateway will set up Help Desk Services to provide Mozart with issue management, coordination, and resolution.  Gateway will provide appropriate personnel for a Help Desk that provides Mozart 24-hour centralized technical assistance seven days a week.

Help Desk Service Levels are as follows:

 

Severity Levels

One

The outage terminates the operations of any installation and any workstations comprised therein or the outage corrupts any database used in conjunction with the Software or major function of normal operation and use of the Software has become unusable and there is no workaround available.

Two

A major function in normal operation and use of the Software has become unstable and there is an awkward work-around or any other function has become unworkable and there is no known work-around

Three

A major function has become unworkable and there is an effective workaround

Four

No functional impact on software

 

 

A-10

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

a)  

The Gateway Help Desk will log all calls taken, be responsible for problem resolution and call escalation reporting. 

b)         The Gateway Help Desk will monitor un-escalated/unresolved calls and communicate to Gateway immediately.  Status information on all calls will be maintained by and can be obtained from the Gateway Help Desk.

c)         The Gateway Help Desk will initiate escalation of unresolved calls to the appropriate responsibility level as designated by Gateway for resolution.

 

Time to Start and Target to Fix Times for each Severity Levels

One

Time to Respond: 15 minutes

Time to Start: 0 to 2 hours

Target to Fix: 6 hours

First update will be provided within 1 hour of initial call

Further updates will be made every 2 hours

Resolutions will be documented and provided back within 24 hours of resolution

Two

Time to Respond: 15 minutes

Time to Start: 0 to 4 hours

Target to Fix: Less 24 hours

First update will be provided within 1 hour of initial call

Further updates will be made every 2 hours

Resolutions will be documented and provided back within 24 hours of resolution

Three

Time to Respond: 15 minutes

Time to Start: Less than two days

Target to Fix: Less than seven days

First update will be provided within 1 hour of initial call

Further updates will be made every 4 hours

Resolutions will be documented and provided back within 24 hours of resolution

 

 

A-11

 

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Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

Four

Time to Start: Next Update/Patch

Target to Fix: Next Update/Patch

 

a)  

Mozart will provide appropriate security rules for validating user access to Help Desk Services.

b)         Mozart will provide to Gateway appropriate access to any data reasonably necessary to assist in the security validation process.

c)  

Mozart will provide escalation points and contacts at Gateway for the Help Desk.

 

 

Gateway will provide application access to those resources transitioned as of the effective date of the Purchase Agreement. Additional requests for access must be approved by a central point of contact within Mozart and are subject to approval by the Gateway business application owner and IT security management.

 

There will be a scheduled maintenance window for applications and servers of approximately four hours per month. Generally, one week’s notice will be provided. However, Gateway reserves the right to perform maintenance as required to ensure proper function of the systems.

 

Gateway will continue to provide the current level of disaster recovery support to all in-scope applications.

 

Gateway will create data extracts to support the transition of services. Requests for data must be submitted by a central point of contact within Mozart and is subject to the approval of the appropriate Gateway business owner.

 

A-12

 

(MP) 08481/006/TSA/TSA.amend1.doc

 



Attachment A

Project Symphony Transition Services Schedules

All Time Periods begin at Closing Date

 

 

 

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