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Contract Lifecycle Management
Clauses
There are multiple clauses in an agreement, and these are basically drafted between
entities/companies/organizations that would help discharge their duties in a proficient manner that
would help enable it to be mutually beneficial. There are no set standards per se, like different
organizations might word the agreement in a different manner. To ensure the respective employee
understands the respective clause, it would be in the best interest if he/she is trained to understand
the same. It would be better if the following clauses are discussed:
Introduction clause to help identify the parties and the explanation of affiliates and
referencing in documentation with other documents like MSA reference in SOW so on and
so forth
Recital clause
Limitation of liability
Indemnity
Governing Law including dispute resolution
Term and Termination (all forms of termination and termination fees) including verbiage
of autorenewal
Termination and Transition Assistance
Confidentiality and its survivability
Payment terms and delayed payment
Benchmarking
True-up
Data protection verbiage
Travel Policy inclusion
Price Adjustments language
COLA
Discount for early payment
Contractor and Subcontractor provisions
IPR ownership
Productivity/efficiency clauses
Non-exclusivity
Proprietary rights
Disaster recovery
Non-solicitation
Non-compete
Most favored customer
Boilerplate clauses including but not limited to assignment, extraordinary clause, notices,
waiver, severability to name a few
Ancillary documents
There are multiple documents that are a part of the contract. There are commercial documents that
refer it and contain important information for our Contract database management. Some of the
documents that employees would need to be trained on would include the following:
P.O
Quotes
Proposals
Attachments/Exhibits/Annexures/Schedules