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Contract management or contract administration is the management of contracts made with customers, vendors, partners, or employees.Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.
Performance-based contracting (PBC) is about buying performance, not transactional goods and services, through an integrated acquisition and logistics process delivering improved capability to a range of products and services. PBC is a support strategy that places primary emphasis on optimising system support to meet the needs of the user.
Software development. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. Administered by the CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of ISACA, it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is required by many U.S. Government contracts, especially in software development.
e. Government procurement or public procurement is when a governing body purchases goods, works, and services from an organization for themselves or the taxpayers. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] In 2019, public procurement accounted for approximately 12% of GDP in OECD countries. [ 4 ][ 5 ] In 2021 the World Bank Group estimated that public procurement made ...
Contract awarding. Contract awarding is the method used during a procurement in order to evaluate the proposals (tender offers) taking part and award the relevant contract. [1][2] Usually at this stage the eligibility of the proposals have been concluded. So it remains to choose the most preferable among the proposed.
Contract research organization. In the life sciences, a contract research organization (CRO) is a company that provides support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries in the form of research services outsourced on a contract basis. A CRO may provide such services as biopharmaceutical development, biological assay ...
The legal origin of IDIQ contracts is the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 16.504 (a) (48 CFR 16.504). IDIQs are also sometimes called "Task Orders" or "Delivery Order Contracts." IDIQ contracts are a subtype of Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC), which is a "vehicle that has been awarded to one or more vendors to facilitate the ...
Agile contracts. The Agile fixed price is a contractual model agreed upon by suppliers and customers of IT projects that develop software using Agile methods. The model introduces an initial test phase after which budget, due date, and the way of steering the scope within the framework is agreed upon. This differs from traditional fixed-price ...