ELECTRONIC VENDOR PAYMENT
This outlines a significant change in UNICOR's method
of making payments!
Recent legislation signed by the President requires Federal agencies
to pay recipients by electronic funds transfer. Therefore, UNICOR,
Federal Prison Industries, Inc. is changing the way it pays vendors.
In the near future, we cannot issue purchase orders or contracts
to your company unless we can pay through the Automated Clearing
House (ACH) network banking system. Using this system, your company
will have its payments directly deposited into its checking or
savings account on the payment due date instead of receiving checks.
Receiving your payments electronically offers an immediate cash-flow
benefit. Your company will have prompt availability of funds on
the payment due date. There is no waiting for checks to arrive,
or deposit delays; and the chance for lost, stolen, or misplaced
checks is eliminated.
To assist your company in identifying its Federal payments, we
will include addendum information with each payment sent to your
bank. This addendum information will contain your invoice number.
You and your financial institution (FI) should agree on how and
when the addendum information will be provided to your company.
We will use the CCD+ ACH payment format to transmit your payments
and addenda records to your FI.
Use the ACH Vendor/Miscellaneous Payment Enrollment Form
(download or print below) to enroll in the program. Please complete
the Payee/Company Information section of the form and have your
FI complete the Financial Institution Information section. Return
only the original completed form to this agency address.
To ensure that we can issue future orders and make payment to
you, it is necessary that you provide us your Taxpayer Identification
Number (TIN) and other important information using this enrollment
form. If you do not have a Taxpayer Identification Number, you
may use your social security number.
We trust your company will find this a prompt, effective, and
reliable method for receiving payments; and we look forward to
your participation in this program.
The ACH form can be downloaded and submitted electronically.
ACH Form (PDF format)
Please direct any inquiries related to this website to the address
listed below.
Procurement Webmaster: scarter@central.UNICOR.gov
