I suggest taking commercial prime contracts management ... and ... commercial
subcontracts management ... and ... commercial supplier contracts management to a higher
level by trying to discover problems and prevent problems from occurring by proactively involving the applicable managers in
the following commercial contracts management best practices for commercial prime contracts, commercial subcontracts,
and commercial supplier contracts:
1. Contract awareness
with contract summary and contract presentation
2. Communications management
3. SOW management
4. Deliverables and delivery schedule management
5. Quality management
6. Acceptance/Rejection management
7. Contract changes management
8. Stop work management
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Lower-level agreements management
10. Dispute management
11. Document management
12. Publicity management
13. IP management
14. Issues & risks management
15. Financial stability management
16. Warranty management
17. Insurance management
18. Confidentiality Management
19. Personal data management
20. Payment management
21. Compliance management
22. Service level agreement management
23. Health & safety management
24. COI management
25. Relationship management
26. Legal management
27. Margin protection & enhancement
28. Reputation management
29. Scorecard management
30. Termination.
31. Contract Close-out
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Lessons learned
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I refer to this type of activity as a ... "PROACTIVE CONTRACT
ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM" [ PCAP SM ].
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( PCAP SM is a service mark of John ["Johnny"] E. Miller )