Item 1. Business
Item
1. Business
Corporate
Information
SCWorx, LLC (n/k/a SCW FL
Corp.) (“SCW LLC”) was a privately held limited liability company which was organized in Florida on November 17, 2016. On
December 31, 2017, SCW LLC acquired Primrose Solutions, LLC (“Primrose”), a Delaware limited liability company, which became
its wholly-owned subsidiary and focused on developing functionality for the software now used and sold by SCWorx Corp. (the “Company”
or “SCWorx”). The majority interest holders of Primrose were interest holders of SCW LLC and based upon Staff Accounting Bulletin
Topic 5G, the technology acquired has been accounted for at predecessor cost of $0. To facilitate the planned acquisition by Alliance
MMA, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Alliance”), on June 27, 2018, SCW LLC merged with and into a newly-formed entity, SCWorx
Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“SCW Acquisition”), with SCW Acquisition being the surviving entity. Subsequently,
on August 17, 2018, SCW Acquisition changed its name to SCWorx Corp. On November 30, 2018, the Company and certain of its stockholders
agreed to cancel 6,510 shares of common stock. In June 2018, the Company began to collect subscriptions for common stock. From June to
November 2018, the Company collected $1,250,000 in subscriptions and issued 3,125 shares of common stock to new third-party investors.
In addition, on February 1, 2019, (i) SCWorx Corp. (f/k/a SCWorx Acquisition Corp.) changed its name to SCW FL Corp. (to allow Alliance
to change its name to SCWorx Corp.) and (ii) Alliance acquired SCWorx Corp. (n/k/a SCW FL Corp.) in a stock-for-stock exchange transaction
and changed Alliance’s name to SCWorx Corp., which is the Company’s current name, with SCW FL Corp. becoming the Company’s
subsidiary. On March 16, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SCWorx established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Direct-Worx, LLC.
Our
principal executive offices are located at 590 Madison Avenue, 21 st Floor, New York, New York, 10022. Our telephone
number is (844) 472-9679.
In
this Annual Report, the terms “SCWorx”, “Alliance,” “Alliance MMA,” the “Company,”
“we,” “us” and “our” refer to SCWorx, Corp. (f/k/a Alliance MMA, Inc.). Unless specified otherwise,
the historical financial results in this Annual Report are those of SCWorx and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
Business Combination and Related Transactions
On February 1, 2019, Alliance
MMA completed the acquisition of SCWorx, changed its name to SCWorx Corp., changed its ticker symbol to “WORX”, and effected
a one-for-nineteen reverse stock split of its common stock, which combined the 100,000,000 Alliance shares of common stock issued to the
Company’s shareholders into 5,263,158 shares of common stock of the newly combined company.
From a legal perspective,
Alliance MMA acquired SCWorx FL Corp, and as a result, historical equity awards including stock options and warrants are carried forward
at their historical basis.
From an accounting perspective,
Alliance MMA was acquired by SCWorx FL Corp in a reverse merger and as a result, the Company has completed purchase accounting for the
transaction.
Our
Business
SCWorx
is a leading provider of data content and services related to the repair, normalization and interoperability of information for
healthcare providers, as well as big data analytics for the healthcare industry.
SCWorx
has developed and markets health care information technology solutions and associated services that improve healthcare processes
and information flow within hospitals and other healthcare facilities. SCWorx’s software enables a healthcare provider to
simplify and organize its data (“data normalization”), allows the data to be utilized across multiple internal software
applications (“interoperability”) and provides the basis for sophisticated data analytics (“big data”).
Customers use our software to achieve multiple operational benefits, such as supply chain cost reductions, decreased accounts
receivables aging, accelerated and completed patient billing in less than 72 hours, contract optimization, increased supply chain
management and total cost visibility via dynamic AI connections that automatically structures, repairs, synchronizes and maintains
purchasing (“MMIS”), Clinical (“EMR”) and finance (“CDM”) systems. SCWorx’s customers
include some of the most prestigious healthcare organizations in the United States. SCWorx offers an advanced software solution
for the management of health care providers’ foundational business applications, empowering its customers to significantly
reduce costs, drive better clinical outcomes and enhance their revenue. SCWorx supports the interrelationship between the three
core healthcare provider systems: Supply Chain, Financial and Clinical. This solution integrates common keys within distinct and
variable databases that allows the repaired foundational data to move seamlessly from one application to another enabling our
Customers to drive supply chain cost reductions, optimize contracts, increase supply chain management (“SCM”), cost
visibility, control rebates and contract administration fees.
Currently,
the business systems of hospitals are frequently deficient and often unconnected from each other. These deficiencies in part result
from the vast amount of unstructured, manually created and managed data that proliferates within the hospital’s supply chain,
clinical and billing systems. SCWorx’s solutions are designed to improve the flow of information quickly and accurately
between the buy-side (supply chain purchasing systems), the consumption-side (clinical documentation systems like the electronic
medical records (“EMR”)) and billing and collection systems (patient billing systems). The currently poor state of
interoperability limits the potential value of each independent system and requires significant expense and extensive human resource
commitments from senior personnel to stay ahead of problems and complete basic administrative tasks. SCWorx provides an information
service that ultimately leads to safer, more cost effective and financially efficient patient care.
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SCWorx
has demonstrated that in order for the core hospital systems to function properly there must be a Single Source of Truth (“SSOT”)
for all products utilized and ultimately billed for. The Item Master File (“IMF”), which is a database of all known
products used in hospital and health care settings, must be accurate at all times and expanded upon to hold both clinical and
financial attributes. An accurate and expanded Item Master File supports interoperability between the supply chain, clinical and
financial systems by delivering, on demand, reports detailing the purchasing, utilization and revenue associated with each and
every item used, allowing hospitals to better manage their business. The Single Source of Truth establishes a common vernacular
and syntax, while assigning a consistent meaning across the healthcare provider’s core systems and accurately migrating
data from one application to another and removing disconnects between critical business systems.
SCWorx’s
software solutions are delivered to clients within a fixed term period, where such software is hosted in SCWorx’s data center
and accessed by the client through a secure connection in a software as a service (“SaaS”) delivery method.
SCWorx
sells its solutions and services in the United States to hospitals and health systems through its distribution and reseller partnerships.
SCWorx’s
Software Solutions/Services
SCWorx
empowers healthcare providers to maintain comprehensive access and visibility to an advanced business intelligence that enables
better decision-making and reductions in product costs and utilization, ultimately leading to accelerated and accurate patient
billing. SCWorx’s software modules perform separate functions as follows.
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Virtualized
Item Master File repair, expansion and automation — The process begins with data normalization — data is put into
a simplified and normalized structure and location for use throughout the enterprise. The SCWorx software normalizes, automates
and builds interoperability via advanced attribution, vendor and contract mapping, product categorization, repairing the unit
of measure and establishing revenue codes and flags. SCWorx improves the healthcare providers’ business processes through
the establishment of a clean and normalized Item Master File that improves efficiencies, eliminates cumbersome and error-prone
manual processes, and provides an integrated cloud-based suite of services that enhances the productivity of operating room
staff, supply chain margins and billing revenue through the seamless sharing and accuracy of critical business data.
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Electronic
Medical Record Management — The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) module integrates the advanced data attributes created
by SCWorx in the Item Master into the EMR. The EMR serves as the database that hospitals use to document all clinical procedures
in terms of the products used and the costs that should be charged. What makes this module special is that prior to its creation
there was no mechanism that tied product purchases to actual utilization. Hospitals, being mass consumption businesses, had
no way to identify excess ordering that always accompanies mass consumption organizations. In addition, the automation and
consistency of delivered attributes dramatically reduces the administrative burden as today these additional attributes are
being created by expensive clinical resources manually — over and over again by each hospital. The SCWorx EMR management
system creates one vernacular for each hospital so they see the data in a manner that suits them — and then creates
a universal vernacular so they can see their performance against other like institutions.
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Charge
Description Master Management — The Charge Description Master (CDM) Management module assists healthcare providers by
integrating the CDM data into the workflow of the hospitals purchasing systems so that the latest costs can be automatically
updated against the hospitals charging systems. The CDM data provided by SCWorx is made more accurate, and the resulting data
is integrated to the Item Master for real-time delivery to the EMR — this data is the last remaining piece of information
that is consumed by the EMR and passed ultimately to the patient billing systems. SCWorx provides real-time integration, automation
and management of Item Master File, Clinical Information Systems and the Charge Description Master.
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Contract
Management — SCWorx’s Contract Management Module assists healthcare providers to establish an efficient contract
management system and to provide first class care to patients, while reducing operating costs, assuring adherence to compliance
requirements, and mitigating risk. By linking the Item Master File to the healthcare providers contract management system
and procedures, SCWorx simplifies the way contracts are managed from start to finish by streamlining the processes of creating,
routing, reviewing and approving contracts. SCWorx delivers a data warehouse platform which integrates item master management,
spend analysis, and contract management. These solutions enable financial staff across the healthcare provider to drill down
quickly and deeply into actionable and real-time financial data and key performance indicators to improve revenue realization
and staff efficiency. This suite of solutions includes the ability to automatically push price changes to a contract, compliance
for standard and non-standard products, contract compliance and optimization reporting, reliable cost data for current and
alternate products, cost performance metrics, matching purchase order price to contract and contract repository.
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Request
for Proposal (“RFP”) Automation — With the reality of shrinking operating margins, increasing operating
expenses and decreasing insurance reimbursements, hospitals must evaluate all major expenditures. In addition, requirements
for provable quality of service supported by trackable metrics now frequently necessitate the search for better options available
in the marketplace. Since hospital-based provider subsidies are often a major expense item and since there are often perceived
opportunities for quality improvement, it is a reasonable practice for hospital leadership to carefully evaluate all of their
current hospital-based services and associated financial support before each contract renegotiation. The proliferation of
large regional and national providers, with their ability to derive benefits from economies of scale, have made RFPs much
more of a competitive process. Hospital administrators, however, often rely on poor or conflicting data when creating an RFP.
Through the integration and utilization of the SSOT SCWorx automates the RFP process and makes it more accurate. SCWorx automates
the core sourcing processes with the intention to accelerate cycle times, surveys and confirms business preferred processes,
designs and builds a flow chart for the current and desired workflows, cross references bid analysis, implements bid scoring,
customizes software to support automation and customizes the report writer and output documents.
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Integration
of Acquired Businesses — The agnostic design of the SCWorx solution enables rapid deployment of a virtual Item Master
File to quickly and easily allow combining healthcare providers to share information and achieve cost synergies and interoperability
without large and cumbersome upgrades or implementations. During the consolidation of healthcare providers, SCWorx cleans
the data and makes the data available to the disparate systems. In addition, M&A activity requires in-depth reporting
for comparison of Group Purchasing Organization (“GPO”) contract overlap. When healthcare providers that use different
GPOs merge, or are acquired, there is a lack of information to compare contracts. SCWorx provides information for comparative
purposes to solve these issues rapidly.
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Rebate
Management — Frequently, vendors use rebates and incentives as a key part of their pricing strategy and structure when
selling to hospitals. This tactic makes pricing more attractive to healthcare providers. When tracked through Accounts Payable,
and issued correctly, rebates can help healthcare organizations save money. At any large healthcare provider, vendor rebates
can be difficult to manage since they require a multi-step process to track dollars earned, credits issued, and monies paid.
Rebates frequently cause tracking challenges for Accounts Payable departments. Inconsistent tracking is the primary problem
for loss of savings with vendor rebate programs. SCWorx’s Rebate Management Module enables healthcare providers to correctly
calculate and track rebates provided by healthcare provider vendors. Purchasing or Contracting departments monitor rebates
by creating and maintaining a Rebates Master List which is provided to the Accounts Payable department. To assist in this
cumbersome process, SCWorx provides information from the SSOT, such as historical data, frequent updates, advanced administrative
fee reporting, purchase rebate tracking, early payment/discount management and Vendor Master Data alignment.
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Big
Data Analytics Model — SCWorx provides an in-depth, easy-to-use web portal for display, reporting and analysis of the
information contained within the SCWorx data warehouse. SCWorx’s analytics solution enables healthcare providers to
view benchmarking information, quickly add new items to the SSOT and identify cost savings through this real-time and on-demand
solution. In addition to simplifying the item add process, SCWorx provides peer comparison reporting against similar healthcare
providers and a list of informative reports for business measurement, such as spend trend analysis, contract gap analysis,
market price comparison, etc. The SCWorx product line is a simplified user experience and visual display for the hospital
employee which does not require access to the SCWorx application.
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Data
Integration and Warehousing — Healthcare providers maintain a significant amount of data. In many cases the data is
not useful for analytics since the data is held within an individual “silo.” SCWorx establishes an expandable,
data warehouse of items that have been normalized, repaired and enriched as the SSOT for useful benchmarking, interoperability
and analytics. SCWorx’s data warehouse allows healthcare providers to effectively use the data contained in their environment
and efficiently establish the supply chain as a leading driver of revenue cycle management. The data warehouse is updated
as frequently as every five minutes without intervention.
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●
ScanWorx
— Our mobile perioperative closed loop scanning solution is driven by the SCWorx foundational data structure, and utilizes
interoperable data exchanges to push and secure the customer’s enriched item master, all built around the customer’s
internal business rules and chart of account requirements offering the following:
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Cloud
hosted mobile scanning solution, which automates the consumption of known and unknown implant device utilization during surgical
procedures via intuitive Scanning or smart searching features.
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All
scanned device utilization will capture all available attributes, such as Global Trade Item Number, Lot, Serial numbers, expiration
dates.
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ScanWorx
will establish the following connections with existing Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) and Electronic Medical
Record (“EMR”) enterprise systems for the following:
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EMR
— Daily scheduling feeds with case information
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ERP
— Bill-Only electronic purchase orders
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EMR
— Case closure with device utilization integration
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ScanWorx
has the ability to consume additional product utilization per case when provided by the EMR for surgical preference cards,
central sterile processing products, and anesthesia gas.
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ScanWorx
will identify and automate the Item-Add process for unknown items introduced during surgical procedures based on customer’s
existing business rules.
Direct-Worx
— In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
SCWorx established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Direct-Worx, LLC, with the intention of
utilizing the SCWorx database to identify trends within the purchasing supply chain and
then use this information to assist the Company in its endeavors to provide critical,
difficult-to-find items for the healthcare industry.
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The
Company sought to provide COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits and PPE — Personal Protective
Equipment to the healthcare industry. PPE includes items such as masks, gloves, gowns,
shields, etc.
The
Company has extensive experience in the healthcare industry and industry contacts, and a database of items specifically designated
to assist the healthcare industry in fulfilling its inventory demands.
The
sale of PPE and rapid test kits for COVID-19 represented a new business for the Company and is subject to the myriad risks associated
with any new venture. The Company encountered great difficulty in attempting to secure reliable sources of supply for both COVID-19
Rapid Test Kits and PPE The Company currently has no contracted supply of Rapid Test Kits or PPE. During the year ended December
31, 2020, the Company has completed only minimal sales of COVID-19 rapid test kits and PPE. In addition, changes in market conditions
and FDA processes governing the sale of COVID-19 serology tests could have the effect of rendering the COVID-19 serology tests
held by the Company not saleable in the United States, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial
condition and results of operations. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to generate any significant revenue
from the sale of PPE products or rapid test kits, and as of the date of this report, the Company has not generated any material
revenue from the sale of PPE or rapid test kits.
The
Company is no longer actively seeking to procure and sell Test Kits or PPE. Instead, the Company is focused on selling its current inventory
of PPE and Test Kits. The Company may receive commissions for acting as an intermediary with respect to the sale of PPE and/or Test Kits.
However, there is no assurance the Company will realize any material revenue from these activities.
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Clients
and Strategic Partners
SCWorx
continues to provide transformational data-driven solutions to some of the finest, most well-respected healthcare providers in
the United States. Clients are geographically dispersed throughout the country and the continued focus is to assist healthcare
providers with issues they have pertaining to data interoperability. SCWorx provides these solutions through a combination of
direct sales and relationships with strategic partners.
Competition
SCWorx
competes against a variety of vendors and smaller companies which provide solutions in the specific markets we address. Our principal
competitors include:
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purchasing
departments that have limited budgets and may be attempting to manually repair the item master file;
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large
companies with a long list of products and services and small companies which may provide item master normalization and data
cleanse services;
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software
companies or service providers, as well as small, specialized vendors, that provide complementary or competitive solutions
in benchmarking or data analytics and data warehousing that may compete with our offerings; and
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large
national medical supply companies which distribute PPE products and rapid test kits, such as Medline Industries, Inc.
Some
of our actual and perceived competitors have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, greater financial, technical,
marketing or other resources, stronger brand and business user recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios, broader distribution
and presence, and competitive pricing. In addition, our industry is evolving rapidly and is becoming increasingly competitive.
Barriers
to entry to the data management market include technological and application sophistication, the ability to offer a proven product,
creating and utilizing a well-established client base and distribution channels, brand recognition, the ability to provide agnostic
interoperability and to operate on a variety of MMIS, EMR and financial platforms, the ability to integrate with pre-existing
systems and capital for sustained development and marketing activities. There are few barriers to entry to the PPE/test kit distribution
business.
SCWorx
believes that these obstacles taken together represent a moderate to high-level barrier to entry on the data management side of
our business. The principal competitive factors in our markets are product features, functionality and support, product depth
and breadth (number of items in the central data warehouse), flexibility, ease of deployment and use, total cost of ownership
and time to value. We believe that we generally compete favorably on the basis of these factors. For example, besides our agnostic
interoperability, additional key strengths include the SCWorx data warehouse, which exceeds 12 million items, SCWorx Big Data
analytics and benchmarking.
Contracts,
License and Service Fees
SCWorx
enters into agreements with its clients that specify the scope of the solution to be installed and/or services to be provided
by SCWorx, as well as the agreed-upon aggregate price, applicable duration and the timetable for the associated licenses and services.
For
clients purchasing software to be installed locally or provided on a SaaS model, these are multi-element arrangements that include
a term license granting the right to access the applicable software functionality (whether installed locally at the client site
or the right to use our company’s solutions as a part of SaaS services), terms regarding maintenance and support services,
terms for any third-party components such as infrastructure and software, and professional services for implementation, integration,
process engineering, optimization and training, as well as fees and payment terms for each of the foregoing. If the client purchases
solutions on a long-term license model, the client may be billed the license fee up front or on a monthly or quarterly basis.
Maintenance and support are provided on a term basis for separate fees, with an initial term of typically three to five years.
The license, maintenance and support fee is charged annually in advance, commencing either upon contract execution or deployment
of the solution in live production. If the client purchases solutions on a term-based model, the client is billed periodically
a combined access fee for a specified term, typically three to five years in length.
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SCWorx
also generally provides software and SaaS client’s professional services for implementation, integration, process engineering,
and optimization and training. These services and the associated fees are separate from the license, maintenance and access fees.
Professional services are provided on either a fixed-fee or hourly arrangements billable to clients based on agreed-to payment
milestones (fixed fee) or monthly payment structure on hours incurred (hourly). These services can either be included at the time
the related SaaS solution is licensed as part of the initial purchase agreement or added on afterward as an addendum to the existing
agreement for services required after the initial implementation.
For
one-time data normalization services clients, these normalization services are provided either through a stand-alone services
agreement or services addendum to an existing master agreement with the client. These normalization services are available as
either a one-time service or recurring monthly, quarterly or annual review structure. These services are typically provided on
a per item basis. Payment typically occurs upon completion of the applicable normalization project. The commencement of revenue
recognition varies depending on the size and complexity of the system and/or services involved, the implementation or performance
schedule requested by the client and usage by clients of SaaS for software-based components. SCWorx’s agreements are generally
non-cancelable but provide that the client may terminate its agreement upon a material breach by SCWorx and/or may delay certain
aspects of the installation or associated payments in such events. SCWorx does allow for termination for convenience in certain
situations. SCWorx also includes trial or evaluation periods for certain clients, especially for new or modified solutions. Therefore,
it is difficult for SCWorx to accurately predict the revenue it expects to achieve in any particular period, and a termination
or installation delay of one or more phases of an agreement, or the failure of SCWorx to procure additional agreements, could
have a material adverse effect on SCWorx’s business, financial condition, and results of operations. Historically, SCWorx
has not experienced a material amount of contract cancellations; however, SCWorx sometimes experiences delays during contract
implementation, and SCWorx accounts for them accordingly.
Third
Party License Fees
SCWorx
incorporates software licensed from various third-party vendors into its proprietary software. Stand-alone third-party software
is also required to operate certain of SCWorx’s proprietary software and/or SaaS services. SCWorx licenses these software
products and pays the required license fees when such software is delivered to clients.
PPE
and Rapid Test Kit Products
We are endeavoring to sell our existing inventory of PPE products
primarily through use of our internal and external sales personnel. Through the date of filing we have not had significant sales of PPE
products.
CageTix
Ticketing Platform
In 2020, the majority of paid tickets for regional MMA events were
sold by the fighters appearing on the event fight card. Referred to as “fighter consigned” tickets, sales are generally made
in face-to-face cash transactions. The CageTix event ticketing platform allowed regional promoters to control the ticketing sales chain.
The CageTix platform provided benefits to regional promotions, including the security of credit/debit card sales processing, immediate
revenue recognition, and real time sales reporting. Due to the Covid restrictions which were put in place for large gatherings, SCWorx
has paused business activity for Cagetix.
Property
The
company does not own any real property. The principal executive offices are located at an office complex in New York, New York,
consisting of shared office space that we are leasing. The lease had an original one-year term that commenced on December 1, 2015,
which was renewed until November 30, 2018 and now is under a month-to-month lease agreement. The lease allows for the limited
use of private offices, conference rooms, mail handling, videoconferencing, and certain other business services.
The
company also has a lease for office space in Greenwich, Connecticut which expired in March 2020 and is now Month-to-month.
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Government
Regulation
Management
believes that governmental regulation is not material to our current core data management business.
The sale of tests to identify
antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the blood (i.e., COVID-19 serology tests) in the United States is subject to regulation by the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In order for such COVID-19 serology tests to be sold in the United States, they must be authorized
for sale by the FDA, either by being cleared under FDA’s 510(k) pathway, approved under FDA’s Premarket Approval pathway,
or, more commonly, authorized under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process developed by FDA for COVID-19 serology tests during
the duration of the current public health emergency.
The Company believes that the COVID-19 serology tests held by the
Company will conform with the FDA EUA process for COVID-19 serology tests and therefore can be lawfully distributed in the United States.
Changes in FDA processes governing the sale of COVID-19 serology tests could have the effect of rendering the COVID-19 serology tests
to be sold by the Company not saleable in the United States, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company.
Intellectual
Property
We
protect our intellectual property rights by relying on federal, state and common law rights, as well as contractual restrictions.
We control access to our proprietary technology by entering into confidentiality agreements, invention assignment agreements and
work for hire agreements with our employees and contractors, and confidentiality agreements with third parties. We further control
the use of our proprietary technology and intellectual property through provisions in our websites’ terms of use. Agreements
between the Company and end-users includes a license agreement in which a non-transferable non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, limited
use license to use the licensed products for the duration of the service order. Customers may not modify, copy, translate, decompile,
disassemble, reverse engineer, loan, rent, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works of the licensed products, in whole or
in part. Customer agrees to maintain software and data as Confidential Information.
The
Company currently hosts our solution, serves our customers, and supports our operations in the United States through an agreement
with a third party hosting and infrastructure provider, Rackspace. The Company incorporates standard IT security measures, including
but not limited to; firewalls, disaster recovery, backup, etc.
Circumstances
outside our control could pose a threat to our intellectual property rights. For example, effective intellectual property protection
may not be available in the United States or other countries in which we seek protection of our marks or our copyrighted works.
Also, the efforts we have taken to protect our proprietary rights may not be sufficient or effective. Any significant impairment
of our intellectual property rights may harm our business or our ability to compete.
Seasonality
We
do not believe that SCWorx’s revenues are impacted by seasonality.
Employees
As
of December 31, 2020, we had 9 employees, of which 2 were management and finance and the rest in operations. We primarily utilize
independent contractors and third-part vendors for software, maintenance of our database and customer software installation.
Legal
Proceedings
In
conducting our business, we may become involved in legal proceedings. We will accrue a liability for such matters when it is probable
that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. When only a range of possible loss can be established,
the most probable amount in the range is accrued. If no amount within this range is a better estimate than any other amount within
the range, the minimum amount in the range is accrued. The accrual for a litigation loss contingency might include, for example,
estimates of potential damages, outside legal fees and other directly related costs expected to be incurred.
On
April 29, 2020, a securities class action case was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York against us and our CEO. The action is captioned Daniel Yannes, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated,
Plaintiff vs. SCWorx Corp. and Marc S. Schessel, Defendants.
On
May 27, 2020, a second securities class was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against
us and our CEO. The action is captioned Caitlin Leeburn, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff
v. SCWorx Corp. and Marc S. Schessel, Defendants.
On
June 23, 2020, a third securities class was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against
us and our CEO. The action is captioned Jonathan Charles Leonard, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated,
Plaintiff v. SCWorx Corp. and Marc S. Schessel, Defendants.
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All
three lawsuits allege that our company and our CEO mislead investors in connection with our April 13, 2020 press release with
respect to the sale of COVID-19 rapid test kits. The plaintiffs in these actions are seeking unspecified monetary damages. These
three class actions were consolidated on September 18, 2020 and Daniel Yannes was designated lead plaintiff. A consolidated Amended
Complaint (“CAC”) was filed on October 19, 2020. The Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the CAC on November 18,
2020, and the briefing on that motion was complete on January 8, 2021. We are still awaiting a ruling on the motion, and we intend
to continue vigorously defending against this lawsuit.
On
June 15, 2020, a shareholder derivative claim was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
against Marc S. Schessel, Steven Wallitt (current directors), and Robert Christie and Charles Miller (former directors) (“Director
Defendants”). The action is captioned Javier Lozano, derivatively on behalf of SCWorx Corp., Plaintiff, v. Marc S. Schessel,
Charles K. Miller, Steven Wallitt, Defendants, and SCWorx Corp., Nominal Defendant. This lawsuit alleges that the Director Defendants
breached their fiduciary duties to the Company, including by misleading investors in connection with our April 13, 2020 press
release with respect to the sale of COVID-19 rapid test kits, failing to correct false and misleading statements and failing to
implement proper disclosure and internal controls. The Plaintiff, on our behalf, is seeking an award of monetary damages, improvements
in our disclosure and internal controls, and legal fees. The Director Defendants intend to vigorously defend against these proceedings.
This derivative action is also still pending, and the plaintiff in such action has agreed to voluntarily stay the case until a
ruling on a motion to dismiss, which we intend to file in the securities class action case.
On
August 21, 2020, a shareholder derivative claim was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York against Marc S. Schessel, Steven Wallitt (current directors), and Robert Christie and Charles Miller (former directors) (“Director
Defendants”). The action is captioned Josstyn Richter, derivatively on behalf of SCWorx Corp., Plaintiff, v. Marc S. Schessel,
Charles K. Miller, Steven Wallitt, Defendants, and SCWorx Corp., Nominal Defendant. This lawsuit alleges that the Director Defendants
breached their fiduciary duties to the Company, including by misleading investors in connection with our April 13, 2020 press
release with respect to the sale of COVID-19 rapid test kits, failing to correct false and misleading statements and failing to
implement proper disclosure and internal controls. The Plaintiff, on our behalf, is seeking an award of monetary damages, improvements
in our disclosure and internal controls, and legal fees. The Director Defendants intend to vigorously defend against these proceedings.
On
August 27, 2020, the Lozano and Richter derivative actions were consolidated and jointly stayed until a ruling on a motion to
dismiss which we filed in the securities class action case.
On
September 30, 2020, a shareholder derivative action was filed in the Supreme Court State of New York, New York County against
Marc S. Schessel and Steven Wallitt (current directors) and Charles Miller (a former director). The action is captioned Hemrita
Zarins, derivatively on behalf of SCWorx Corp. v. Marc S. Schessel, Charles Miller, Steven Wallitt and SCWorx, Nominal Defendant.
This lawsuit alleges that the Director Defendants breached their fiduciary duties to the Company, including by misleading investors
in connection with the Company’s April 13, 2020 press release with respect to the sale of COVID-19 rapid test kits, failing
to correct false and misleading statements and failing to implement proper disclosure and internal controls. The Plaintiff, on
our behalf, is seeking an award of monetary damages, improvements in our disclosure and internal controls, and legal fees. On
October 28, 2020, Zarins withdrew this action and refiled an action in the Chancery Court in the State of Delaware on October
29, 2020. Zarins named as Defendants Marc S. Schessel, Robert Christie (a former director), Steven Wallitt and SCWorx, Nominal
Defendant. The allegations, as well as the relief sought, in the Delaware Chancery Court proceeding are substantially the same
as that filed in the New York State Action. This action has been stayed pending the ruling on the motion to dismiss in the aforementioned
securities class action. The Director Defendants intend to vigorously defend against these proceedings.
In
addition, following the April 13, 2020 press release and related disclosures (related to COVID-19 rapid test kits), the Securities
and Exchange Commission made an inquiry regarding the disclosures we made in relation to the transaction involving COVID-19 test
kits. On April 22, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered that trading in the securities of our company be suspended
because of “questions and concerns regarding the adequacy and accuracy of publicly available information in the marketplace”
(the “SEC Trading Halt”). The SEC Trading Halt expired May 5, 2020, at 11:59 PM EDT. We are fully cooperating with
the SEC’s investigation and are providing documents and other requested information.
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In
April 2020, we received related inquiries from The Nasdaq Stock Market and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
We have been fully cooperating with these agencies and providing information and documents, as requested. On May 5, 2020, the
Nasdaq Stock Market informed us that it had initiated a “T12 trading halt,” which means the halt will remain in place
until we have fully satisfied Nasdaq’s request for additional information. We fully cooperated with Nasdaq and responded
to all of Nasdaq’s information requests as they were issued. The T12 trading halt was lifted on August 10, 2020.
Also
in April 2020, we were contacted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, which is seeking information
and documents from our officers and directors relating primarily to the April 13, 2020 press release concerning COVID-19 rapid
test kits. We are fully cooperating with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in its investigation.
In
connection with these actions and investigations, the Company is obligated to indemnify its officers and directors for costs incurred
in defending against these claims and investigations. Because the Company currently does not have the resources to pay for these
costs, its directors and officers liability insurance carrier has agreed to indemnify these persons even though the $750,000 retention
under such policy has not yet been met. The Company estimates it is currently obligated to pay approximately $700,000 of the retention,
which payments could have a material adverse effect on the Company. The $700,000 have been accrued in accounts payable and accrued
liabilities in theses financial statements.
David
Klarman v. SCWorx Corp. f/k/a Alliance MMA, Inc.,
Index
No. 619536/2019 (N.Y. State Sup. Ct., Suffolk County)
On
October 3, 2019, David Klarman, a former employee of Alliance, served a complaint against SCWorx seeking $400,000.00
for a breach of his employment agreement with Alliance. Klarman claims that Alliance ceased paying him his salary in March 2018
as well as other alleged contractual benefits. SCWorx does not believe that it owes the amount demanded and intends to vigorously
defend against these claims. On March 6, 2020, SCWorx filed an answer and counterclaims against Mr. Klarman. On September 18,
2020, the Court granted Klarman’s counsel’s motion to withdraw as counsel due to irreconcilable differences. “The Court stayed the case for 45 days after service of the Court’s order. Mr. Klarman’s wife, Marie Klarman, Esq.,
filed a Notice of Appearance on November 6, 2020 and filed a motion on November 9, 2020 seeking various forms of relief -- in
violation of the Court’s Individual Rules and the Commercial Division Rules. We opposed Klarman’s motion on December
31, 2020 and the case was marked fully submitted on January 21, 2021. By Decision and Order dated March 26, 2021, the Court granted
Klarman’s motion to dismiss four (4) of fourteen (14) defenses, denied Klarman’s motion to dismiss SCWorx’s
counterclaims against him; denied Klarman’s motion for summary judgment and denied Klarman’s motion to strike allegations
contained in the Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaims based on his contention that such allegations were “scandalous”
or prejudicial. The Court has scheduled a conference for April 28, 2021 presumably to set a discovery schedule.
At
this time, we are unable to predict the duration, scope, or possible outcome of these investigations and lawsuits.
Available
Information
Our
website address is www.SCWorx.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K,
and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange
Act), are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We are subject to the informational requirements of the
Exchange Act and file or furnish reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC. Such reports and other information
filed by us with the SEC are available free of charge on our website at www.SCWorx.com when such reports become available on the
SEC’s website. The public may read and copy any materials filed by SCWorx Corp. with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference
Room at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, DC 20549 on official business days during the hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC
maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that
file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. The contents of the websites referred to above are not incorporated into this
filing. Further, our references to the URLs for these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
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