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Contract management firms specialize in the creation, execution and analysis of any and all contracts for your business. Being experts in negotiation, contract management firms can assist a business in minimizing risk while maximizing the company's performance and financial gain. The use of Contract management firms also means the reduction of costly legal fees.

If you feel that Contract Management is the correct solution for your business, the companies on this page are some Leaders of the industry

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Introduction

The Procurement and Project Management Policy Directorate (PPMPD) is part of the Government Operations Sector within the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Its role is to provide strategic project and procurement management policy leadership to government departments, other central agencies, and other parts of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.

PPMPD is guided in its activities by the government's Management Accountability Framework, a foundation for modernizing management practices across government. Specifically, the Directorate is responsible for management excellence within project and procurement policies, practices, and key tools.

Key efforts centre on advancing Treasury Board's Policy suite renewal to promote a much stronger management foundation for major investments supported by projects and procurement. A key to this will be ensuring government has a comprehensive integrated approach to the management of assets and services supported by an effective performance management regime.

Policy Responsibilities

Contracting Policy

The Treasury Board is responsible for the government's Contracting Policy. The Contracting Policy is a major part of the procurement framework. This framework guides on average 500,000 transactions related to goods, services, and construction each year. Collectively, these contracts are valued between $10 and $13 billion each year.

PPMPD works with departments, agencies, and other stakeholders to improve the policy and its implementation.

Project Management Policies

The government has established project management policies to support the significant investments it makes through the design, development, and acquisition of various types of assets. An example that illustrates these significant investments is Major Crown Projects (MCP), which are high-risk projects, generally valued at over $100 million. Projects in the Government of Canada can often be expected to involve technical, business, and significant public policy risks and are critical to transforming service delivery to Canada.

Good project management contains costs and mitigates risks contributing to the successful delivery of program objectives.

Other policies:

Policy on Title to Intellectual Property Arising under Crown Procurement Contracts Policy on Decision Making in Limiting Contractor Liability in Crown Procurement Contracts

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» Contract Management - Ketera -

Ketera is the only affordable on demand spend management solution that reduces and controls corporate spending for direct and indirect goods and services. Ketera creates a "source to pay" loop to identify, capture and sustain bottom-line savings with spend analysis, sourcing, procurement, contract management and supplier performance.

Ketera Contract Management enables sourcing and purchasing professionals to sustain savings by providing a single repository for contracts, decreasing contract cycle time and enforcing contract compliance. Ketera Contract Management delivers comprehensive support throughout the contract management lifecycle including authoring, approvals and compliance monitoring. Ketera is responsible for the "heavy lifting" of importing and scanning existing contracts for enterprise-wide visibility into all active contracts. Ketera's contract analytics service converts contract terms and transactional data into interactive, actionable reports enabling internal and supplier compliance management.

» Contract Management - Sales Force Automation -

Contract Management

Salesforce's contract management capabilities seamlessly integrate back-office financial functionality into your front office. As a result, your organization is able to effectively manage the entire customer lifecycle - from a contract's approval through its renewal - to enhance profits.

BENEFITS

.: Provide one-stop access to key contract data

.: Shorten contract approval cycles

.: Initiate the renewal process in a timely matter

.: Reduce administrative costs

.: Improve visibility into contract deviations

HIGHLIGHTS

Contract Repository

Extend your customer view into the back office with a centralized online contract repository. Improve tracking and management of key deal data, including contract terms, value, conditions, signatures, and so on.

Approval Management

Automate the contract approval process to save time and respond to customers more quickly. Use security controls to ensure the right people have access to the appropriate customer contracts.

Renewal Management

Track contract expiration dates and initiate the contract renewal process with automatic notifications.

» Contract Management Software at Contract Assistant - Powerful Contract Management Software

Contract Assistant is affordable, feature-filled software that's easy to install, learn and use. Our Standard, PRO and Enterprise Contract Management Editions provide contract management software for any size organization or budget. With Contract Assistant you can quickly access important information, generate reports, receive automatic reminders of critical dates and more.

Enterprise Contract Management System

Contract Assistant Enterprise Edition, is our most comprehensive, powerful contract management solution. Scalable for Large Installations - Same Intuitive User Interface - Multi-Level Security - Email Notification of Alarms - Full-Text Searching - Custom Reporting - and More

Multi-user Contract Management Software

Contract Assistant PRO Edition allows 5 networked users concurrent access to your company's Contract Assistant database. Additional user licenses available. Multi-User Version - Same Intuitive User Interface - More Features - More Power

» Contract Management, US EPA -

Contract Management

The Contract Management Branch (CMB) provides leadership for the management of the Office of Superfund Remediation Technology Innovation's (OSRTI) Headquarters support contracts, that serve the Superfund, Emergency Response and Removal, and Oil Programs, as well as planning, oversight and support for all regionally-delegated and regional-support contracts (e.g., RAC, START, ERRS, and ESAT). CMB staff work closely with staff from other OSRTI Branches to coordinate cross-organizational contracts issues and support Regional needs.

» I-many Inc. - Contract and Compliance Solutions -

The I-many Contract and Compliance Management Solution enables enterprises to create, store, edit and manage any type of business contract and to ensure transaction compliance for the terms agreed to in those contracts. The solution is centered on a highly dynamic and flexible central repository allowing easy storage, retrieval and information management (terms, clauses, attachments, amendments, etc.). The solution includes the most intuitive contract drafting tool available today, as well as a powerful transaction compliance engine allowing for full reconciliation and matching of actual transactions, ensuring complete compliance to the terms in your agreements.

The Enterprise Contract Management Process

Contract

Contract and Obligation Management - Improve productivity and contract consistency by automating the contract management lifecycle and ensuring fulfillment of contract obligations such as dates, events, commitments and payments. With I-many Contract Manager you can:

Increase revenue and reduce costs by alerting you to pending contract renewals and expirations

Reduce time, cost and risk of legal exposure associated with contract inaccuracies and associated penalties

Ensure adherence to sales and purchase approval processes

Automate the evaluation of trading partner's adherence to terms and conditions of contractual obligations

Enable collaborative authoring of terms sheets and proposals with all required internal parties via online workflow and role-based access

Enforce a best practice approach to contract creation

Comply

Compliance Management - Hard ROI is achieved through contract transaction compliance. Realize dramatic profitability improvements by reducing transactions that do not match contract terms. With I-many Compliance Manager you can:

Monitor and analyze root-cause to improve corporate performance

Reduce "maverick" procurement and sales orders by ensuring all transactions are tied back to the contract

Reduce overpayments on non-compliant invoices that don't match

contract pricing

Manage discounts by monitoring purchases/sales against commitments

Reduce legal exposure to contract inaccuracies and associated penalties

Apply financial controls relevant to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Provide detailed analysis of transactions that are not compliant

» International Contract Management Benchmarking Association -

International Contract Management Benchmarking Association (ICMBA™)

is currently a free association of corporations with contract management processes. ICMBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the overall operations of the members.

Mission

To identify "Best in Class" contract management business processes, which, when implemented, will lead member companies to exceptional performance.

Objectives

To conduct benchmarking studies of important contract management processes.

To create a cooperative environment where full understanding of the performance and enablers of "best in class" contract management processes can be obtained and shared at reasonable cost.

To use the efficiency of the association to obtain process performance data and related best practices from regarding contract management.

To support the use of benchmarking to facilitate contract management process improvement and the achievement of accuracy, timeliness and efficiency.

Membership

The scope of ICMBA™ membership includes individuals who work in eCommerce companies.

Company membership will be considered with respect to compliance with ICMBA™ mission, goals and operating guidelines, as well as, qualification of the organization within the scope of membership.

Participation in specific efforts will be optional and open only to members with costs shared by the participants. Members pay only if they join a specific study. Currently, membership in ICMBA™ is free. We reserve the right to review membership applications and to make the final decision whether or not to accept any application. Consulting firms are ineligible for membership.

Benefits of Membership

Studies:

ICMBA™ will identify and present to members opportunities to participate in Benchmarking studies on various topics addressing issues of importance to the procurement and supply chain functions.

There are two types of Benchmarking studies provided:

Consortium studies are offered to the membership as a whole with costs divided.
Single company sponsored studies addressing the interest of one member company can be offered to other selected members for no fee.

The association will also support contract management benchmarking efforts:

Research - Access public and private databases. Identify study participants - Top companies in with contract management organizations. Collect data - Manage response collection with the participants as a third party.

Lead site visits - Structured with best participants.

Roundtables:

Interest group roundtables will be organized throughout the year. Members will pay a nominal fee to join real and virtual roundtable discussions that address specific contract management processes.

Cost:

Currently, membership in ICMBA™ is FREE! Costs of studies are shared by the participants.

» National Contract Management Association -

Contract Management a monthly, full-color magazine, is NCMA's number-one member benefit. Not only do members receive this publication each month, they also can access past articles of interest through our Contract Management Learning Center. If you would like to access these articles, please Join NCMA today.

Written and edited specifically for contract management professionals, and established in 1977, CM is NCMA's flagship publication, providing comprehensive reporting on current issues and trends relevant to both public and private sectors.

Editorial is presented from both government and commercial viewpoints. CM articles keep readers on top of late-breaking developments. Editorial "departments" present opinion pieces, information for beginners and for legal scholars, information for small businesses, as well as rich and varied feature material.

» NextPage Inc. - Contract Management Software -

Contract Management Software

Most businesses have one small problem: When it comes to creating polished contracts, proposals, and group documents, every business professional wants perfection; but business is, and always has been ruled by ad hoc processes. In a successful business, due dates will always loom just around the corner and perfection seems almost impossible, especially when speed is absolutely necessary.

NextPage® 2 Contract Management Software

With NextPage 2 Contract Management Software, the following scenario could be yours:

Let’s imagine for a moment that you draw up a contract, and send it to three or four of your co-workers for edits and approval. You want to make sure the contract is error free, so you also send the contract to a business associate for additional proofreading. After you send the original contract, your co-workers and your associate read the contract, make the changes they feel are necessary, and e-mail their versions of the document back to you. You receive their versions and all you do is simply merge all versions of the document together. This contract management software product helps to produce the most polished and most effective contracts for your business.

Note: NextPage 2 Contract Management Software can be used with anyone, regardless of whether or not they subscribe to NextPage.

NextPage 2 Keeps Track of the Whens, Wheres, Whys and Hows

NextPage 2 Contract Management Software weaves a Digital Thread™ through your documments, which allows you to see, through a NextPage Activity Center, when your document was created, where each version is located, who created the documents, and how each version fits together.

Last Updated: 2005-10-27 03:04:50