--- title: Life Sciences and Pharma Contract Management | Aavenir url: https://aavenir.com/industries/life-sciences-pharma/ description: Contract management for pharma, biotech and medical device teams: CDAs, clinical trial agreements, CRO and CMO contracts, with milestones owned after signature. updated: 2026-11-07 --- [Home](https://aavenir.com/) / [Industries](https://aavenir.com/industries/) / Life sciences and pharma Industries · Life sciences and pharma # From CDA to clinical milestone, every agreement on one record. Pharma, biotech and medical device teams use Aavenir for confidentiality, clinical, CRO and manufacturing agreements. Aavenir AI reads each draft against your playbook, and every milestone and quality duty gets an owner after signature. Our customers ## Procurement, legal, IT, finance, and sales teams run their contracts on Aavenir. American Seafoods Group T.D. Williamson Thrive Express Employment Professionals MUFG State of Utah Definition ## What is contract management for life sciences? Contract management for life sciences is software that runs the agreements pharma, biotech and medical device companies depend on, such as CDAs, clinical trial agreements, CRO and CMO contracts and licenses, and tracks the milestones and quality duties inside them. A late CTA delays a study start, and a quality agreement that splits GxP duties unclearly becomes an inspection finding. Aavenir gives legal, clinical operations and procurement one place to draft, negotiate and approve these contracts, then hands each obligation to a named owner. Validation for 21 CFR Part 11 stays a joint exercise with your quality team, using the audit history Aavenir keeps. - CDAs and NDAs self served from approved templates, at the volume research needs - CTA and CRO terms extracted to fields: budgets, milestones, publication and IP rights - Quality agreement responsibilities assigned to owners, with evidence attached - Mass amendments find every contract a template change affects - Every version, approval and signature stays in the audit history What you contract for ## The contracts that set your pipeline's pace. Most of the risk in life sciences contracting sits in a handful of agreement types, and in the regulations they point to. ### CDAs and NDAs Early science runs on confidentiality agreements with sites, partners and investors. Self service from templates. Third party paper scored by Aavenir AI. ### Clinical trial agreements Site budgets, payment schedules, indemnity, publication and subject injury terms. Milestone payments tracked. Fallback clauses for site redlines. ### CRO master services and SOWs Multi party outsourcing where each work order adds deliverables and dates. SOWs linked to the MSA. Deliverables owned after signature. ### CMO and supply agreements Manufacturing capacity, forecasts, change control and batch release terms. Forecast and notice dates as tasks. Sourced through RFPflow. ### Quality and GxP agreements Who owns deviations, audits and release decisions between the parties. Responsibilities as named tasks. Evidence checked before close. ### Licensing and IP agreements Exclusivity, royalties, diligence obligations and territory rights. Royalty and diligence dates tracked. Searchable across the portfolio. ### FDA, EMA and 21 CFR Part 11 Regulators expect a reliable record of who changed and approved what, and when. Complete version history. Role based access and SSO. ### Mass amendments A new privacy or safety standard can touch hundreds of agreements at once. Find every affected contract. Track each amendment to signature. How it works ## A clinical study's contracts, start to finish. - Clinical teams request a CDA from an approved template Site paper goes through Aavenir AI review instead of a queue Legal handles only the flagged clauses. - Redlines come back to the record as new versions Aavenir AI suggests fallback language from your library Approvals route by value and clause risk. - Site payments, enrollment reports and audits become tasks Quality agreement duties go to the named function Uploaded evidence is checked before a task closes. Built on ServiceNow, or standalone ## One platform for legal, clinical operations and procurement. On ServiceNow, Aavenir runs as scoped apps inside your instance, with your users, roles, workflow and audit history. Teams that do not run ServiceNow get the same contracts, AI review and obligation tracking in Aavenir's own environment. - Providerflow verifies providers against HHS-OIG, FDA and State Medicaid exclusion lists - Onboardingflow checks supplier documents before activation - Customer contract data is never used to train external models [See Providerflow](https://aavenir.com/solutions/providerflow/) Results ## What customers report after moving to Aavenir. 42%reduced contract risk at a leading Southeast Asian bank [Case study](https://aavenir.com/case-study/contract-management-for-leading-banking-financial-services-company-servicenow/) 5xfaster approval cycle at the same bank [Case study](https://aavenir.com/case-study/contract-management-for-leading-banking-financial-services-company-servicenow/) 70%faster contract cycle at a Fortune 500 insurer on RFPflow and Contractflow [Case study](https://aavenir.com/case-study/source-to-contract-workflow-improve-contract-cycle-time-efficiency/) 5xfaster contract cycle time at a mining company on RFPflow, Onboardingflow and Contractflow [Case study](https://aavenir.com/case-study/accelerate-sourcing-cycle-by-25-source-to-contract/) “ Breakthrough results for our legal team. **Dominic Gyngell**General Counsel, Speedcast, on Contractflow in ServiceNow Aavenir and the alternatives ## How Aavenir compares with the other ways teams do this. | What matters | Aavenir | Standalone contract lifecycle management tools | Shared drives, email and spreadsheets | | Where it runs | Native on ServiceNow, or deployed standalone | Their own platform, connected to other systems by integration | Wherever the file was last saved | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | One record across the lifecycle | Sourcing, contract, obligations and invoices on one record | Usually the contract stage, other stages through partners | No record, only files and threads | | AI at each stage | Aavenir AI extracts terms, reviews against your playbook and tracks obligations, and a person approves | Varies by product, often strongest in review and search | None | | After signature | Obligations assigned, evidence checked, renewals flagged before the notice window | Varies by product | A calendar reminder, if someone set one | | Where others can be stronger | Configured to your workflow, one module or the whole suite | Often a quick start for a single legal team | Free and familiar, until volume grows | Comparisons describe categories of tools, not named products. For named comparisons, see [Aavenir compared](https://aavenir.com/compare/). ## Further reading [AI in contract lifecycle management AI-native vs bolt-on contract lifecycle management: how to tell the difference before you buy Read the article](https://aavenir.com/blog/ai-native-vs-bolt-on-clm/)[Contract management Where contract value goes after signature Read the article](https://aavenir.com/blog/post-signature-value/)[AI in contract lifecycle management AI agents in contract management: what they actually do Read the article](https://aavenir.com/blog/ai-agents-contract-management/) ## Guides for life sciences [Guide The Pharma Leader’s Guide to Clinical Trial Agreement Automation Read the guide](https://aavenir.com/industries/clinical-trial-agreement-automation-guide/)[Datasheet Obligation Management for Life Sciences: Never Miss a Regulatory Commitment Read the datasheet](https://aavenir.com/industries/obligation-management-life-sciences-datasheet/)[Checklist 21 CFR Part 11 & GxP: What Your CLM Must Prove in an Audit Read the checklist](https://aavenir.com/industries/21-cfr-part-11-gxp-clm-audit-checklist/) Questions ## Talk to someone who knows your contracts Bring a few sample agreements. We will show you Aavenir AI reading them, on ServiceNow or standalone. Schedule a demo ## Where life sciences teams start [Contract obligation tracking Milestones and duties with owners and evidence Learn more](https://aavenir.com/use-cases/contract-obligation-tracking/)[Change of control review Consent clauses before a licensing deal or acquisition Learn more](https://aavenir.com/use-cases/change-of-control-review/)[Source to contract From CMO sourcing event to signed supply agreement Learn more](https://aavenir.com/use-cases/source-to-contract/)[For legal teams CDAs and CTAs without the queue Learn more](https://aavenir.com/solutions/legal-contract-management/)[For procurement teams CRO and CMO contracts tied to sourcing Learn more](https://aavenir.com/solutions/procurement-contract-management/)[Contractflow Intake, drafting, review, approval and signature Learn more](https://aavenir.com/solutions/enterprise-contract-management-software/) Frequently asked questions (FAQ) ## Common questions ### ### What is clinical trial agreement management software? It is software that drafts, negotiates and tracks the agreements between sponsors, CROs and sites. Aavenir stores site budgets, payment milestones and publication terms as fields, routes site redlines through Aavenir AI review, and turns each milestone into an owned task after signature. [See contract obligation tracking](https://aavenir.com/use-cases/contract-obligation-tracking/). ### ### Is Aavenir validated for 21 CFR Part 11? Aavenir keeps a full version, approval and signature history on every record, with role based access and SSO, and holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022. Part 11 validation depends on how you configure and use the system, so it is completed with your quality team. [See Contractflow](https://aavenir.com/solutions/enterprise-contract-management-software/). ### ### Can Aavenir manage CRO and CMO contracts? Yes. Master services agreements and each statement of work or work order are linked, so deliverables, forecasts and notice dates roll up to one supplier view. CMO sourcing events can run in RFPflow, and the award drafts the supply agreement. [See source to contract](https://aavenir.com/use-cases/source-to-contract/). ### ### How does Aavenir handle quality agreement obligations? Responsibilities such as audits, deviation reporting and change notices become tasks assigned to the right function. When a supplier uploads evidence, such as an audit report or certificate, Aavenir AI checks it against the clause and a person confirms before the task closes. [See Obligationflow](https://aavenir.com/solutions/contract-obligation-management-software/). Have a question we have not answered? [Ask the Expert](https://aavenir.com/contact/) Schedule a demo ## See your contracts run on one record. - **1****A 30 minute walkthrough**Built around your team, whether that is procurement, legal, IT or finance. - **2****Your contracts, not ours**Bring a few sample agreements and watch Aavenir AI extract and review them. - **3****ServiceNow or standalone**We show the deployment that fits the systems you already run. Prefer to talk first? [Contact the team](https://aavenir.com/contact/). The form did not load. [Contact the team](https://aavenir.com/contact/) instead, or refresh the page.