Suppliers

The Administrators may request that you continue to supply goods and services to the Company during the administration and will provide assurance that these goods and services will be paid for. 

Goods and services ordered by the Administrators or their authorised representatives will be paid for by the administration estate.

All purchases will be ordered using a new sequence of purchase order forms. This will be signed by one of the authorised signatories whose names and signatures are shown on the suppliers’ letter, a copy of which will be made available to you.

Goods and services provided prior to the date of appointment will not be paid for.

The Administrators will issue a letter to all known creditors of the Company within 7 days of the Administrators’ appointment. This letter will include details for creditors on how to make a claim in the administration. 

The Administrators will also publish their proposals for achieving the purpose of administration to all known members and creditors via this case website (see documents to download section) within eight weeks of the Administration appointment. This report will outline steps taken by the Administrators since their appointment, detailed information on the proposed strategy for the administration going forwards, including estimated returns for the various classes of creditor.

The Administrators are also required to provide a written update on the administration to all known creditors every six months. This report will be published directly to the case website within one month of every six-month anniversary

If you believe you have a Retention of Title claim over goods that you have supplied to the Company, please contact us at uk_ncp_suppliers@pwc.com to request a retention of title questionnaire for completion.

If you believe you have a claim over leased assets that you have supplied to the Company, please contact the Administrators' team at uk_ncp_suppliers@pwc.com who will deal with your enquiry.

Our appointment means that you can’t start or continue legal action, enforce security or repossess any goods held by the Company unless we agree or the court allows it.

Goods and services provided prior to the date of the administration appointment will not be paid for as an expense of the administration estate. 

All outstanding amounts at the date of the Administrators’ appointment rank as an unsecured claim in the Administration. At this early stage, we do not know whether there will be funds available to make a distribution to unsecured creditors as this will depend on the final level of asset realisations and level of preferential claims received. Please note that it is too early to give any indication of the prospects of return for creditors.  

Once we have more information on dividend prospects, we will update the FAQs on our website and if we think there will be funds available to pay a dividend to unsecured creditors in due course, we will write to all creditors to set out how to make a claim. You do not need to take any action at this stage with regard to submitting a claim to the Administrators.

The Administrators will include an update of dividend prospects and, if possible, a timeframe in their proposals and reports. 

If your claim includes VAT, you may be able to obtain VAT bad debt relief six months after your supply.

We are unable to refund the costs in preparing a claim. Consequently, we cannot refund any expenses incurred in obtaining information necessary to make a claim.

For all other supplier queries, please email: uk_ncp_suppliers@pwc.com