Do we owe Collabora money?

Hello @directors,

In this post, @mmeeks says we (= TDF) owe Collabora money and that they’ve been waiting for a while to receive the money we owe them:

  1. Is that true?
  2. If it is, what do we owe them for, and why haven’t we paid them on time? Does it have to do with the audit results?
  3. If it isn’t, can you explain what he’s referring to and why we don’t actually owe them money?

PS - There are no good tags for this sub-forum. finance? collabora? debt? contracts? none of those.

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So, if I am not mistaken, the money that we (=TDF) owe Collabora, which Michael referred to, is for work done on tenders. I wish I could get some details from people, but apparently it’s not just that tendering got suspended, but also that some work was already done on certain tenders, and invoices were sent (only for work carried out already? Also for expected work?) but were not paid.

I would ask that someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m not very hopeful that would happen.

I also don’t know how, if at all, we replied to those invoices. That is, it’s possible that the tendering process had flaws; but that does not mean that work already performed should remain unpaid. I don’t suppose we have put that money in some kind of escrow, or entered into another kind of arrangement?