UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 8, 2020
NOVAVAX, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
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| Delaware | | 0-26770 | | 22-2816046 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | | (Commission File Number) | | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
21 Firstfield Road
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
(240) 268-2000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | | Trading Symbol(s) | | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 per share | | NVAX | | The Nasdaq Global Select Market |
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On June 8, 2020, Novavax, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a letter contract (the “DoD Contract”) with the U.S. Department of Defense (the “DoD”) Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (“JPEO-CRBND-EB”), under which JPEO-CRBND-EB will provide funding of up to $60.0 million to the Company to support the manufacture of NVX-CoV2373, the Company’s vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. Under the DoD Contract, the Company is currently authorized to make expenditures or incur obligations up to $22.0 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 in the fourth quarter of 2020. 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.
The foregoing description of the material terms of the DoD Contract does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreement, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2020.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| | Novavax, Inc. |
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| Date: June 11, 2020 | By: | /s/ John A. Herrmann III |
| | Name: | John A. Herrmann III |
| | Title: | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
