Requesting Price Increase/Required Documentation Contractor must submit a written notification at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to the requested effective date of the change, setting the amount of the increase, along with an itemized list of any increased prices, showing the Contractor’s current price, revised price, the actual dollar difference and the percentage of the price increase by line item. Price change requests must include H-GAC Forms D Offered Item Pricing and E Options Pricing, or the documentation used to submit pricing in the original Response and be supported with substantive documentation (e.g. manufacturer's price increase notices, copies of invoices from suppliers, etc.) clearly showing that Contractor's actual costs have increased per the applicable line item bid. The Producer Price Index (PPI) may be used as partial justification, subject to approval by H-GAC, but no price increase based solely on an increase in the PPI will be allowed. This documentation should be submitted in Excel format to facilitate analysis and updating of the website. The letter and documentation must be sent to the Bids and Specifications manager, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, at Xxxxxxx.Xxxxxx@x-xxx.xxx Review/Approval of Requests If H-GAC approves the price increase, Contractor will be notified in writing; no price increase will be effective until Contractor receives this notice. If H-GAC does not approve Contractor’s price increase, Contractor may terminate its performance upon sixty (60) days advance written notice to H-GAC, however Contractor must fulfill any outstanding Purchase Orders. Termination of performance is Contractor’s only remedy if H-GAC does not approve the price increase. H-GAC reserves the right to accept or reject any price change request.
Introductory Caterpillar Financial Funding Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the "Depositor"), proposes to cause Caterpillar Financial Asset Trust 2007-A (the "Issuing Entity") to issue $19,798,000 aggregate principal amount of Class B 6.18% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and to sell the Class B Notes to Mxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Fxxxxx & Sxxxx Incorporated (the "Underwriter"). The assets of the Issuing Entity will include, among other things, a pool of fixed-rate retail installment sale contracts and finance leases (the "Receivables") secured by new and used machinery manufactured primarily by Caterpillar Inc. ("Caterpillar"), including rights to receive certain payments with respect to such Receivables, and security interests in the machinery financed by the Receivables (the "Financed Equipment"), and the proceeds thereof. The Receivables will be transferred to the Issuing Entity by the Depositor. The Receivables will be serviced for the Issuing Entity by Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Servicer" or "CFSC"). The Notes will be issued pursuant to the Indenture to be dated as of September 1, 2007 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "Indenture"), between the Issuing Entity and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association (the "Indenture Trustee"). Simultaneously with the issuance and sale of the Class B Notes as contemplated herein, the Issuing Entity will issue $150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Class A-1 5.67225% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), $75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Class A-2a 5.40% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a Notes"), $126,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b Notes," and together with the Class A-2a Notes, the “Class A-2 Notes”), $134,050,000 aggregate principal amount of Class A-3a 5.34% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3a Notes") and $155,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Class A-3b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3b Notes," and together with the Class A-3a Notes, the “Class A-3 Notes," together with the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-2 Notes, the "Class A Notes," and together with the Class B Notes, the "Notes") and Asset Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") each such certificate representing a fractional undivided interest in the Issuing Entity. The Class A Notes will be sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the "Class A Note Underwriting Agreement," together with this Agreement, the "Underwriting Agreements") among the Depositor and the underwriters named in Schedule I thereto. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement to be dated as of September 1, 2007 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"), among the Issuing Entity, the Depositor and the Servicer or, if not defined therein, in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement to be dated as of September 27, 2007 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), a Delaware banking corporation, and an affiliate of The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as owner trustee under the Trust Agreement (the "Owner Trustee").
