Terms & Conditions for Suppliers

As a supplier to NW Aeroforms Ltd, it is understood that your organisation agrees to meet the following stipulations / AS9100/ ISO9001

requirements.

The AS9100 standard requires that all applicable customer/ regulatory / AS9100 requirements in this purchase order including key characteristics where

applicable, must be flowed down to sub-tier suppliers.

NW Aeroforms Ltd reserves the right of access of our representatives, our customers and any regulatory authorities to applicable areas of all facilities, at any level of

supply chain involved in the order and to all applicable records.

Where documents are held by the supplier then these shall be retained as part of their document retention procedure or as specified by contract. (5 years for non-flying parts else life of aircraft)

Any special processes required by this purchase order must be performed by suitably qualified personnel.

Work-in-progress and/ or end items may be inspected at your works by NW Aeroforms Ltd and/ or our customer, quality assurance representative or regulatory authority for

compliance with drawings and specifications. Final acceptance shall be by NW Aeroforms Ltd at our works.

NW Aeroforms Ltd are to be contacted by the supplier in the event of non-conforming product/ material.

All deviations from drawing/ specification requirements are to be referred to our Purchasing department.

All approved suppliers are subject to performance monitoring. Performance monitoring will include data on quality and On Time Delivery. Where quality and On Time Delivery fall below the expected standard, NW Aeroforms will engage the supplier. The supplier must respond, in a timely manner, detailing root cause and corrective action. Failure to respond or provide sufficient root cause and corrective action, will result in removal from the approved suppliers list.

The seller’s acceptance of the purchaser’s NW Aeroforms Ltd order is subject to these conditions and any purported alterations or deletions to these

conditions in any document or documents of the seller, shall be inapplicable unless accepted in writing by the purchaser:-

 The Price to include free delivery and suitable packaging to the address stated on the face of the order, unless otherwise explicitly stated.

It shall be a condition of the Contract that:

  1. a) All goods supplied are of merchantable quality and are fit for the purpose for which they were ordered.
  2. b) If ordered by specification they correspond with that specification. Where special requirements, critical items and key characteristics are defined, the requirements, items and characteristics are considered, met and the resulting output conforms.
  3. c) Where the sale is by sample then the bulk shall correspond with the sample and the goods shall be free from defects rendering them unmerchantable which are not reasonably apparent on examination of the sample. Where statistical techniques / sampling is used as a means of product acceptance by the supplier, the supplier will communicate the techniques / sampling plan to NW Aeroforms, for approval, prior to use. Where statistical techniques / sampling is used as a means of product acceptance by NW Aeroforms, or defined by its customer, the techniques / sampling plan will be communicated to the approved sub-contractor at PO level.
  4. d) The contract is divisible. Each delivery made hereunder shall be deemed to arise from a separate contract and shall be invoiced separately, any invoice

for a delivery shall be payable in full in accordance with the terms of payment provided for herein, without reference to and notwithstanding any defect of

default in delivery of any other installment.

Kindly acknowledge receipt of this order. Time of delivery is to be the essence of the Contract. The purchaser reserves the right to terminate the contract, in

whole or part, without liability should the delivery date not be met. No quantity over and above that stated on the purchase order will be accepted or paid for

without the prior written consent of the purchaser. Any unauthorised excess quantities may be returned at the seller’s risk and expense.

All deliveries must be accompanied by a delivery note and/or invoice stating as a minimum supplier’s name, order number, product description/codes of

goods and quantity delivered. Full Certificates of Conformity shall also accompany the goods where appropriate.

In the event of labour difficulties, fire or other unforeseen cause, or circumstances beyond the purchaser’s control, the purchaser reserves the right to require the seller to suspend any deliveries until such date as the purchaser may, in writing, notify the seller that the purchaser is able to accept them.

The seller shall carry the sole risk of and indemnify the purchaser against all claims which may be made by any person arising out of the performance by the

seller or any person on the seller’s behalf of this contract, or out of the supply of anything thereunder, or by doing or omission of anything by any person in

the seller’s employment or any independent contractor acting on the seller’s behalf in the course of or for the purposes of the performance of this Contract,

and in particular all claims arising as aforesaid in any way whatsoever out of the presence of any workmen of the sellers upon any premises, plant, vessel or

erection in the purchaser’s occupation or under the purchasers control.

Title in all goods supplied shall be passed to the purchaser on delivery. Risk in all goods supplied shall be passed to the purchaser of payment. The seller

guarantees all goods or services supplied comply with any patent, trademark, registered design, copyright or similar law and to be useable by the purchaser

without restriction. The supplier will indemnify the purchaser against all liabilities, claims, demands, action, costs and damages arising out of or in

connection with any infringement or any alleged infringement.

Under the conditions of this Purchase Order, no third-party Sub-contract or Purchase is permissible without the prior consent of the purchaser. Third party Sub-

contract / Purchase is only permissible, if already contained within the end customers or the purchaser’s Approved Sub-contract / Suppliers’ listings. If

permission is given, all applicable conditions of this order must be cascaded to the third party.

The supplier shall notify the purchaser of any changes in product or process definition unless these have been approved by the Design Authority specified on

the purchase order and to whose Quality Management System requirements the supplier shall be approved.

If the supplier becomes insolvent or bankrupt, the purchaser may without prejudice to any of its rights, terminate the contract forthwith by notice to the seller or

 to any person to whom the contract may have been vested.

The Contract shall in all respects be governed by English Law.

The seller is required to comply with the following requirements as specified in the international standard, implement a quality management system, use customer-designated or approved external providers, including process sources eg special processes, notify the organization of nonconforming processes, products, or services and obtain approval for their disposition, prevent the use of counterfeit parts, notify the organization of changes to processes, products, or services, including changes of their external providers or location of manufacture, and obtain the organization’s approval. Flow down to external providers applicable requirements including customer requirements, provide test specimens for design approval, inspection, verification, investigation, or auditing, ensuring that persons are aware of their contribution to product or service conformity,

product safety, the importance of ethical behaviour.

In cases where free-issue material is provided by NW Aeroforms Ltd and the material is scrapped by the supplier of goods or services, material of identical specification and volume, must be replaced at the supplier’s expense.

Where information is supplied such as drawings and models, they will be provided when the purchase order is issued and will supersede all information provided prior.

To prevent delays in payment, all invoices must be sent to invoices-statements@nwaeroforms.com.