Electronic Vendor Payments

Legislation requires Federal agencies to pay recipients by electronic funds transfer. Therefore, UNICOR, Federal Prison Industries, Inc. changed the way it pays vendors. Purchase orders or contracts cannot be awarded 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 should agree on how and when the addendum information will be provided to your company. We will use the ACH payment format to transmit your payments and addenda records to your financial institution.

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.

ACH Form (PDF format)

Please direct any inquiries to Sharon.Carter@usdoj.gov