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First Party
First Party
OCEAN FAST FERRIES INC. (OCEANJET for brevity) a domestic corporation duly organized
and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Philippines, with office address at Oceanjet
Corporate Building, Sergio Osmena Jr Avenue, North Reclamation Area, Pier 4, Cebu City,
represented in this act by its General Manager, Venisse Bette Lua-Chua, hereinafter referred
to as the “FIRST PARTY”
and
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the First Party is engaged in Sea and Coastal Water Transport currently plying the
routes of Cebu – Tagbilaran and vice versa; Cebu – Tagbilaran – Dumaguete - Siquijor and
vice versa;Tagbilaran-Larena and vice versa; CebuCamotes and vice versa; Cebu –
Ormoc and vice versa; Bacolod - Iloilo and vice versa; Calapan Mindoro - Batangas and
Vice Versa; Cebu –Gatafe and vice versa; Tagbilaran- Plaridel, Misamis Occidental and
Vice Versa;
WHEREAS, the Second Party intent (copy of the letter of intent is hereto attached and form
part of this MOA, and marked as annex “A”) to become an Authorized Ticketing Agent of the
First Party, and the latter accept the intention of the former;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises, and the mutual covenants
contained herein below, the Parties hereby mutually agree as follows:
Upon acceptance of this Agreement by the First Party OFFI (Oceanjet), the Second Party is
hereby appointed as a non-exclusive Authorized Ticketing Agent with the right to use PRIME as
Agents only and issue official e-tickets of Oceanjet pursuant to this Agreement. The Second
Party accepts such appointments and agrees to serve as Authorized Ticketing Agents as
provided herein.
1.1 That the Second Party must be equipped with communications facilities (i.e.
telephone, fax, scanner, computer unit, printer and etcetera) with internet access
connection to ensure efficient service and open communication with the First Party;
1.2 That the Second Party’s initial cash investment to the First Party for one Account
or Business Name shall be ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND (100,000.00) PESOS,
proof of said investment shall be emailed to the First Party for verification
(marketing@oceanjet.net) and confirmation;
1.3 That upon confirmation of the said investment, the First Party shall create a
user's account and install software through team viewer to the Second Party’s
Computer unit; Second Party is only allowed to have a maximum of two units per
user’s account or Business Name.
1.4 Additional installation of software under the same business name can only be
done upon approval of the written request. Approval of the said request is
determined through Second Party’s Sales Performance which the First Party has full
discretion upon and payment of installation fee in the sum of Five Thousand Pesos
(P5,000.00) per computer unit or device.
1.5 Additional Installation request for Second Party’s other branch with different
Business Address shall be deemed as a new application for new Account which will
have the same set of requirements.
1.6 In the event of damage and irreparable computer units, Second Party is allowed
to request additional installations with an installation fee of One Thousand Pesos
(Php 1,000.00) as long as it will not go beyond 2 working computer units under its
Account or Business Name.
1.7 That the Second Party or its representative’s duty is bound to protect the First
Party’s software against any form of deceit or illegal act. Any act of fraud or deceit
as far as the software is concerned shall be for the sole accountability of the Second
Party which will be deemed as major violation;
1.8 That with the Second Party’s initial investment of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
(100,000.00) PESOS, the Second Party can issue tickets and the amount of the
ticket net of five (5%) percent commission will automatically be deducted from the
initial investment or subsequent investment.
1.9 That the Second Party must follow the Physical and Digital Branding, Marketing,
Promotions, and Trademark Guidelines of the First Party.
1.10 That the Second Party cannot make their own promotion in behalf of Oceanjet
unless otherwise permitted by OFFI Oceanjet as the First Party.
1.11 That the Second Party understands and shall inform end-users
(“Customers/Passenger”) that the issued ticket is dependent upon Customers
agreeing and adhering to the OFFI (Oceanjet) Travel Policy, Requirements, and
Promo Conditions which are subject to changes without prior notice.
1.12 That the Second Party shall inform the passenger to check in with a valid
Identification Card (ID) at the First Party’s passenger terminal at least thirty (30)
minutes before their scheduled departure time.
1.13 That the Second Party shall be liable to their client/passenger, and obligated to
shoulder all necessary and related expenses the passenger may incur due to the
Second Party’s failure to give right information, error ticket and other
misrepresentation that prejudice the rights of the passenger.
1.14T That this Agreement is not exclusive to the agent, and OFFI reserves the
unrestricted right to grant to others the same right to issue, access PRIME and its
value-added versions thereof anywhere in the world. Agents shall not resell PRIME
to any business or to a sister company having the same effect.
All pricing and fees agreed in this agreement are exclusive of taxes and other fees. Agents shall
pay any government local and foreign taxes, fees or duties imposed on their sales which will not
concern the First Party which is the Ocean Fast Ferries Inc (Oceanjet)
2.1 Pricing
2.1.1 The Second Party shall follow the official price or rate given by
the First Party.
2.1.3 The Second Party does not have the right to change, alter,
impose and announce new ticket prices without the official OFFI
price advisory.
2.1.4 The Second Party shall clarify to its customers that the e-ticket
price is not inclusive of the Second Party’s service fee and that the
e-ticket purchased or issued by the Second Party as a whole is
composed of the regular e-ticket price plus the Second Party’s
Service Fee amount.
2.2 Loading
2.2.1 That the subsequent investment of the first party’s ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND (100,000.00) PESOS, with proof of
investment will be credited to the Second Party’s account from
Monday to Friday only. No credit shall be made on Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays, unless the First Party finds it necessary. Time
to credit subsequent investments, shall be as follows:
2.2.5. Local Bank deposits different from First Party’s Bank shall be
loaded or credited to the Agent’s Prime Account within 5 business
days.
2.3.1 All refunds shall be done in all First Party’s ticketing offices or
Corporate Office.
2.3.2 All Rebooking shall be done in all First Party’s ticketing offices
3.2 The Second Party shall pay a one-time payment of Agent’s Fee of Fifty
Thousand Pesos (Php 50,000.00) cash or check to the First Party upon signing this
agreement.
3.3 That the Second Party shall pay a contract bond of Fifty Thousand Pesos (Php
50,000.00) where penalty fees and other fees will be deducted from. (Please see
Section 8)
3.4 Contract Bond shall be reimbursable when Second Party requests for Stop
Operation less the deductions accumulated within the effectivity of the contract.
3.5 Contract Bond shall also be carried over during the annual renewal of contract
less the deductions accumulated within the effectivity of the contract and shall
deposit the remaining amount to reach the fifty thousand pesos contract bond.
3.6 Request to waive the Agent’s Fee must be done via formal letter of request and
shall be honored, recognized and contract effective until signed by the General
Manager.
3.5 Agent’s Fee may be collected from the Second Party during renewal of a new
agreement from at least one (1) year hiatus by Second Party’s discretion of non-
renewal or Termination of Contract.
3.6 That the foreign company as a Second Party will pay a contract bond of
500,000.00 Pesos cash or check to the First Party which will be refunded once
contract is terminated or ended less the accumulated charges (e.g penalties,
loading emergency and etc) and a one-time payment of Agent’s Fee of 50,000.00
Pesos also to the First Party upon signing this agreement.
4. Relationship of Parties
The parties are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement shall be
deemed or construed to create, or have been intended to create a partnership, joint
venture, employment or agency relationship between the parties. Each party agrees
that it neither has nor will give the appearance or impression of possessing the legal
authority to bind or to commit any other party in any way except as provided in this
Agreement.
5. Amendments
4.1 That after one (1) month from installation of software or atleast one (1) month
within the effectivity of the contract if the Second Party will have no transaction or
issuance of ticket or major violation to any provision of this agreement resulting in
termination the First Party shall rescind this MOA without any benefit of notice to the
Second Party. In effect, the Second Party’s initial investment shall be reimbursed
net of ten (10%) percent surcharge;
4.2 The Second Party can demand the reimbursement of their investment’s balance
(if there is any) by sending a letter request, and the First Party shall issue cheque in
favor to the Second Party;
4.3 That this Memorandum of Agreement is valid from the date of signing by the
parties thereto is and continue to be in full force and effect until revoked or
terminated. However, any party may pre-terminate this Memorandum of Agreement
by serving written notice to the other party at least one month prior to termination;
4.4 That the First Party reserves the rights to terminate this memorandum of
agreement in case of violation to any of the provisions thereof by the Second Party,
even without the benefit of thirty (30) days’ notice;
4.5 That the Second Party may apply again after termination at least one (1) year
from the date it was terminated.
4.6 That this MOA will expire after 1 year from the day it was signed but is
renewable.
4.7 That the Second Party should send a letter of intent to renew the MOA 30 days
before the MOA expires.
4.8 That there is no automatic renewal of this Memorandum of Agreement after its
expiration;
4.9 That in case in any dispute arising from this memorandum of agreement the
parties shall exhaust necessary means to settle the same amicably, in case of legal
action, the venue shall be at the appropriate Court of the City of Cebu.
7. Intellectual Property
5.1 OFFI Oceanjet the First Party retains all ownership rights to all applicable
copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, trade names and other
intellectual property rights in the Products. The Second Party shall not (i) copy,
modify or reproduce a Product or accompanying documentation in any way, (ii)
reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile a Product, (iii) remove, obscure or
alter the OFFI proprietary notices, any accompanying End User License Agreement
or other documentation for a Product, (iv) incorporate a Product into any other
software or hardware product, or (v) private label any Product or any portion thereof
or include any other party’s marks or legends on a Product or any portion thereof.
Any documentation accompanying a software product shall also be deemed part of
the Product and delivered to each end user as a complete Product.
5.2 The First Party grants the Second Party a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to
use the OFFI Oceanjet’s trademark, service marks, and trade names for the
purpose of advertising, promoting, merchandising and marketing.
5.3 The Second Party agrees that all such material relating to the Product shall
identify OFFI Oceanjet as the source of the product.
5.4 The Second Party will discontinue all use of OFFI Oceanjet’s marks and names
promptly upon the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
6.1 Confidential Information. Any information disclosed by one Party (the “Disclosing
Party'') to the other Party (the “Receiving Party”) in connection with this Agreement
or otherwise relating to the business or technology of Disclosing Party and which
the Receiving Party knows or has reason to know is regarded as confidential
information by the Disclosing Party including, without limitation, manufacturing,
advertising and obtaining End-Users, or confidential or secret ideas, designs,
processes, plans, End user lists or material, quantity or products shipped, pricing,
product returns, unannounced products, confidential product and process
information, methodologies, know-how, and in general such information which if
disclosed to others would be detrimental to the best interest of OFFI shall be
considered “Confidential Information”. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, any information related to the Products shall be considered Confidential
Information of OFFI. Notwithstanding the foregoing and anything to the contrary in
this Agreement, OFFI shall be entitled to use without restriction any End-User
information, provided by the Second Party or otherwise, in its dealings with such
End-User and otherwise.
6.3 Exceptions. The obligations specified in this Section shall not apply to any
Confidential Information to the extent that it is (a) already known to the Receiving
Party without restriction prior to the time of disclosure by the Disclosing Party, (b)
acquired by the Receiving Party from a third party without confidentiality restriction,
(c) independently developed or acquired by the Receiving Party by employees or
contractors without access to such Confidential Information, (d) approved for
release by written authorization of the Disclosing Party, (e) in the public domain at
the time it is disclosed or subsequently falls within the public domain through no
wrongful action of the Receiving Party, or (f) disclosed pursuant to the requirement
of a governmental agency or disclosure is permitted or required by operation of law,
provided that the Receiving Party use its best efforts to notify the Disclosing Party in
advance of such disclosure and seeks confidential treatment for such Confidential
Information.
6.4 Confidentiality of Agreement. The parties shall mutually agree on any press
release announcing this business relationship. The specific terms of this Agreement
shall not be disclosed by either party to any third party without the prior written
approval of the other party except as (i) may be required by law or by any
competent government authority, or (ii) such limited disclosures in confidence as
may be reasonably necessary to either party’s bankers, investors or potential
investors, attorneys and accountants.
6.6 Non-Solicitation. During the term of this Agreement, and for a period of two (1)
year, following the expiration or termination of this Agreement, Authorized Agent or
the Second Party shall not induce or attempt to induce (i) any customer or supplier
of OFFI to reduce the business done by such customer or supplier with OFFI; or (ii)
any employee, consultant, sales representative, reseller or distributor of OFFI, to
leave the employ of, or otherwise terminate its relationship with OFFI.
6.7 Injunctive Relief. The parties acknowledge that each other would be irreparably
damaged if any of the provisions of this Section are not performed by them in
accordance with their specific terms. Accordingly, the other party is entitled to an
injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Section by the other party and
has the right to specifically enforce this Section against the other party in addition to
any other remedy to which it may be entitled at law or in equity. If any court
determines that the restraints provided in this Section are too broad, the restraints
may be reduced to whatever extent the court deems reasonable and appropriate.
The obligations of this Section will survive any termination of this Agreement.
9. Miscellaneous
7.1 Sub-Agent. The First Party herein acknowledges and honors only the agreement
signed between OFFI Oceanjet and the Second Party. Any business transaction
between the Second Party to its Sub-Agents or Sister Company will have no
bearing in this agreement.
7.2 That the Second Party is accountable to any damage, failure, chaos or to the
extent of the same effect caused by its sub-agent and therefore is the sole party to
face, fix and give remedy to whatever their sub-agent is involved with.
8.1 Violations
Aside from the possible violations that the Parties may violate from the provisions
stated above that may result to termination, the First Party identifies minor and
major violations with degree of penalties with fines;
8.2 Penalties.
8.2.1 Minor Violations are cumulative within the same year which
shall have the following penalties;
First Violation-Written Reprimand
Second Violation-Suspension of 3 days
or Three Thousand Pesos Penalty (Php 3,000.00)
Third Violation-Suspension of 1 week
or Five Thousand Pesos Penalty (Php 5,000.00)
Fourth Violation- Suspension of 1 month
Or Ten Thousand Pesos Penalty (Php 10,000.00)
Fifth Violation- Termination
9.1 That the First Party shall adhere to any government recommendations or
whenever it deems necessary to stop operation should this kind of situation arise.
9.2 That the First Party shall release its own guidelines in accordance with the
competent government agencies recommendations to any means or medium on
how to move forward with the business operation concerning the Second Party.
9.3 That the Second Party will follow guidelines officially released by the First Party.
9.4 That the Second Party shall inform the First Party through a formal letter of
temporary deactivation should the same situation of Sec 11 arise affecting the
operation of the First Party in a specific region, province, city or municipality.
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Cebu City, Philippines. ______________________
BY;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This Agreement relates to the Memorandum of Agreement as e-ticket outlet situated in the
above mentioned address of the Second Party, consist of Twelve (12) pages, including this
where the Acknowledgement is stated, was signed by the parties on the left margin hereof.
Witness my hand and seal on the place and date written above.