Offers of services are received at the Purchasing Department by appointment only.
STANDARD TERMS & CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS
Place of delivery
Place of delivery: 26, rue Paul Doumer, Villeneuve d’Ascq, "Service Réception" [“Incoming Goods”] Opening hours for acceptance of Incoming Goods: Monday to Thursday 0700 to 1130 and 1300 to 1530 (7–11.30 a.m. and 1–3.30 p.m.)
Type of delivery
All deliveries of equipment are made carriage paid, cost of carriage to be specified on invoice, except for purchases made
“carriage free”.
All deliveries to be accompanied by a slip, specifying number and date of our order. Our Incoming Goods department will refuse all deliveries not accompanied by a delivery note or not including the particulars requested.
Billing
Invoices must be supplied in duplicate for each delivery or provision of services.?Invoices will carry the order number, reference or references, date of dispatch or delivery, number and date of delivery slip or date of completion of works in the case of provision of services.
They will show the amount excluding taxes, the amount of VAT as well as the amount of any other taxes that might apply.
Invoices not meeting these absolute conditions will be returned.
Acceptance
On delivery to our stores or jobsites, quantity acceptance is carried out; quality acceptance is performed later by our inspectors. All costs subsequent to an acceptance refusal are at the vendor’s charge.
Rejects – Compliance work
In the case of delivery of equipment or performance of a service which subsequently transpires after acceptance or commissioning not to comply with the specifications of the contract, we shall be entitled to:
either to reject the supply and cancel the order; or
to reject the supply and to require replacement or compliance work, by agreement with us on the necessary resources and processes employed.
Once the defects recorded are eliminated, the supply will again be subject to the appropriate inspections and tests.
All costs incurred by replacement of or compliance work on the supply or the cancellation of the order are at the vendor’s charge, independently of penalties applying under the contract or compensation and damages.
Conditions of payment
Payment of our supplies is effected by pre-accepted computerised bill of exchange, computerised promissory note or transfer, made out exclusively to the order of the supplier.
Standard payment terms are at 45 days end of month of delivery or provision of services, unless special conditions specified on our order form are agreed.
Invoices must reach us before the 5th of the month following the month of delivery; in all other cases we shall be obliged to defer due date.
Penalties and cancellation
Our deadlines must be kept to rigorously and we may apply any of the following penalties of our choosing:
1) 1% per week’s delay, limited to 5% of the amount of the order, without further notice, or the outright cancellation of our order with no compensation.
2) In the event of prolonged delay, we will be obliged to pass on to you all costs incurred through your late delivery.
Disputes
In the event of any dispute, the Commercial Court of Roubaix has sole competence.
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