EARNOUT LIABILITY BACKBONE ENTERPRISES	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
EARNOUT LIABILITY BACKBONE ENTERPRISES
17. EARNOUT LIABILITY - BACKBONE ENTERPRISES	17. EARNOUT LIABILITY – BACKBONE ENTERPRISES On October 31, 2019, we entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Backbone Purchase Agreement”) with Backbone Enterprises Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Backbone”), and its stockholders, (the “Stockholders”), pursuant to which we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock (the “Shares”) of Backbone from the Stockholders. Pursuant to the Backbone Purchase Agreement, the aggregate purchase price paid for the Shares consisted of (i) a cash payment of $5.5 million, less certain transaction expenses (the “Cash Consideration”), (ii) the issuance of 491,804 shares of our common stock to the Stockholders, pro rata among the Stockholders in proportion to each Stockholder’s ownership of the Shares, and (iii) an earn-out, pursuant to which the Stockholders may be entitled to an additional $4.0 million based upon the post-closing financial performance of Backbone, to be calculated annually based upon revenue generated by the Backbone business during each year of the three-year earn-out period. The Cash Consideration was subject to adjustment based on closing working capital of Backbone, and $1.5 million of the Cash Consideration was placed into a third-party escrow account by us, against a portion of which we may make claims for indemnification. There was no earnout paid for the first year of the earnout period. We performed a valuation of the contingent earn-out and marked down the fair value balance from $2.4 million to $1.3 million based on the potential of achieving a portion of the year two and three targets. This resulted in a gain from the reduction of the contingent earnout liability of $1.1 million in 2020. We performed an updated valuation of the contingent earn-out as of June 30, 2021, which resulted in a full write-off of the previous estimate of $1.3 million. The Company renegotiated the terms of the earnout and as a result performed an updated valuation of the contingent earn-out as of September 30, 2021, which resulted in a recovery from the previous estimate of $0.3 million. As of December 31, 2021 we updated our valuation of the contingent earn-out which resulted in an additional recovery of $0.5 million. The earnout for year two of the earnout period totaled $0.3 million. Total cumulative amount earned for the year three earnout period through June 30, 2022 totaled $359,000 with payments related to year three earnout period during the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $259,000.

EARNOUT LIABILITY BACKBONE ENTERPRISES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

EARNOUT LIABILITY BACKBONE ENTERPRISES

17. EARNOUT LIABILITY - BACKBONE ENTERPRISES

17. EARNOUT LIABILITY – BACKBONE ENTERPRISES

On October 31, 2019, we entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Backbone Purchase Agreement”) with Backbone Enterprises Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Backbone”), and its stockholders, (the “Stockholders”), pursuant to which we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock (the “Shares”) of Backbone from the Stockholders.

Pursuant to the Backbone Purchase Agreement, the aggregate purchase price paid for the Shares consisted of (i) a cash payment of $5.5 million, less certain transaction expenses (the “Cash Consideration”), (ii) the issuance of 491,804 shares of our common stock to the Stockholders, pro rata among the Stockholders in proportion to each Stockholder’s ownership of the Shares, and (iii) an earn-out, pursuant to which the Stockholders may be entitled to an additional $4.0 million based upon the post-closing financial performance of Backbone, to be calculated annually based upon revenue generated by the Backbone business during each year of the three-year earn-out period. The Cash Consideration was subject to adjustment based on closing working capital of Backbone, and $1.5 million of the Cash Consideration was placed into a third-party escrow account by us, against a portion of which we may make claims for indemnification.

There was no earnout paid for the first year of the earnout period. We performed a valuation of the contingent earn-out and marked down the fair value balance from $2.4 million to $1.3 million based on the potential of achieving a portion of the year two and three targets. This resulted in a gain from the reduction of the contingent earnout liability of $1.1 million in 2020. We performed an updated valuation of the contingent earn-out as of June 30, 2021, which resulted in a full write-off of the previous estimate of $1.3 million.

The Company renegotiated the terms of the earnout and as a result performed an updated valuation of the contingent earn-out as of September 30, 2021, which resulted in a recovery from the previous estimate of $0.3 million. As of December 31, 2021 we updated our valuation of the contingent earn-out which resulted in an additional recovery of $0.5 million. The earnout for year two of the earnout period totaled $0.3 million. Total cumulative amount earned for the year three earnout period through June 30, 2022 totaled $359,000 with payments related to year three earnout period during the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $259,000.