Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Contract Management Software
The contract intelligence platform built for life sciences to manage contracts, maximize profitability, and streamline compliance. Contract Logix turns the rebate stacks, supply rate tables, trial milestone grids, and government pricing terms buried in your contracts into operational data your teams can act on.
The problem we solve
Life sciences contracts carry unusually high financial and regulatory stakes per agreement, and the operative data lives in the line items: tiered rebate stacks, supply rate tables, trial payment grids, and the terms that drive government pricing.
Government pricing exposure
AMP, Best Price, ASP, the 340B ceiling, and the Federal Ceiling Price are calculated from terms scattered across hundreds of agreements, and a single discount can reset Best Price across the Medicaid book.
Rebate and chargeback leakage
Duplicate rebates, chargeback abuse, and admin-fee creep erode gross-to-net when rebate-stack and fee terms are buried in PDFs and hard to audit across PBM and GPO contracts.
Line-item complexity locked in PDFs
Standard CLM stores a contract as a document and leaves rebate tiers, CDMO rate tables, milestone schedules, and per-line obligations as unstructured text.
Obligations across long-lived deals
Licensing royalties, CDMO minimum purchase commitments, and clinical trial milestones span years, so missed triggers and lapsed price-protection windows surface after the fact.
From contract pain to contract intelligence
Manage the contract lifecycle
A secure repository on Microsoft Azure with no-code workflow automation, parallel approval routing, role-based security, and a 6-year audit trail, plus Contract Binders that link master supply agreements to their POs and MSAs to their SOWs.
Maximize profitability
The Contract Intelligence Engine extracts the financial terms locked inside life sciences contracts, from rebate stacks by formulary tier and CDMO unit-price rate tables to chargeback spreads, royalty tiers, and milestone triggers, and puts them to work as operational data finance and market access can act on.
Streamline compliance
Required terms, approvals, and certifications are enforced in the workflow, so the record stays inspection-ready for OIG guidance, Corporate Integrity Agreements, and FDA oversight. Configurable dashboards surface government pricing exposure and obligation evidence.
Review contracts in minutes
Contract Logix Review delivers first-pass redlines in minutes, inside Microsoft Word and Google Docs, applying your organization’s own standards. Configure playbooks for clinical trial agreements, CRO MSAs, and supply agreements so first-pass review reflects your negotiated positions.
Built for every life sciences agreement type
- Managed-care and PBM rebate agreements. Tiered rebate stacks keyed to formulary placement, market-share thresholds, admin-fee rates, and price-protection caps, captured as structured data so gross-to-net stays visible.
- GPO, wholesaler, and chargeback agreements. Membership pricing, administrative-fee arrangements, and WAC-to-contract chargeback spreads, surfaced so fee creep and chargeback leakage do not slip through.
- CDMO and CMO supply and quality agreements. Unit-price rate tables, minimum purchase commitments, yield assumptions, and the GMP responsibilities allocated in the paired quality agreement.
- Clinical trial agreements and CRO MSAs. Per-patient and per-visit payment grids, milestone payments, indemnity terms, and the rate cards and pass-through terms in CRO statements of work.
- Licensing and royalty agreements. Royalty rate tiers, milestone-payment triggers, minimum-royalty floors, and territory and field-of-use terms tracked across the life of the deal.
Who it serves
Chief Compliance Officer
Reconstructs approval and obligation evidence for OIG, CIA, and inspection readiness from one defensible record. A primary economic buyer alongside the C-suite.
General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer
Sees portfolio-wide risk concentration and outlier terms across supply and rebate agreements without manual review.
VP, Government Pricing
Makes the discount terms that drive AMP, Best Price, ASP, and 340B ceiling calculations queryable, so Best Price contamination surfaces before it reports.
VP / Director, Market Access
Aggregates rebate-stack tiers and PBM and GPO admin-fee rates to manage gross-to-net and audit fee creep.
VP, Supply Chain and Manufacturing
Links master supply agreements to their POs with extracted rate tables, so minimum commitments and rate changes stay tracked.
Director, Clinical Operations
Compresses CTA and CRO SOW contracting cycle time with templates, workflows, and AI redlining. A primary platform user alongside legal operations.
What sets Contract Logix apart
- Built for regulated industries: a 6-year audit trail and role-based access that fit OIG guidance, Corporate Integrity Agreement reporting, and FDA inspection readiness.
- Line-item extraction with configurable, reprocessable fields, so rebate tiers, rate tables, chargeback spreads, and milestone grids stay current when government pricing rules or commercial terms change.
- Lifecycle management, line-item extraction, and AI contract review work together in Contract Logix, shortening the path from intake to managed obligation.
- Contract Binders model the parent-child relationships pharma economics follow: master supply agreement to PO, MSA to SOW, rebate master to amendment.
- Software plus managed services on Microsoft Azure (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, FISMA), with professional services for playbook architecture and data migration.
- Honest scope: Contract Logix is configurable for pharma rather than pre-loaded with pharma-specific templates, and it complements revenue-management systems like Model N rather than replacing their government-pricing calculations.
Proven at scale
More than 60,000 professionals across hundreds of organizations run their contract operations on Contract Logix, across healthcare, financial services, insurance, life sciences, and other regulated industries. Contract Logix has built purpose-made contract software since 2013, out of Carnegie Mellon University.
Enterprise-grade security on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure hosting, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA compliance, AES-256 encryption, role-based access, and a 6-year audit trail suited to OIG and Corporate Integrity Agreement recordkeeping. See Security & trust for the full specification.
Pharmaceutical contract management: a complete guide
Life sciences organizations operate in one of the most heavily regulated commercial environments in the United States, where a single contract term can move gross-to-net by hundreds of millions of dollars or trigger civil monetary penalties. This guide explains why pharmaceutical contract management matters and the practices that make a program successful.
What is pharmaceutical contract management?
Pharmaceutical contract management applies contract lifecycle management to the agreements between manufacturers and their payers, PBMs, GPOs, wholesalers, contract manufacturers, research partners, and licensees. It covers negotiating and executing terms, then monitoring and enforcing the financial and regulatory obligations throughout the life of each agreement.
What makes it distinct is the data. The operative terms live at line-item granularity, in rebate tiers, rate tables, chargeback spreads, and milestone grids, and contracts are interdependent: a master supply agreement spawns purchase orders, an MSA spawns statements of work, and a rebate master spawns quarterly amendments that change the parent’s economics.
Why it is critical
The contracts hold the data that drives both revenue and regulatory exposure. Government price reporting under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B program, federal pricing, and the Inflation Reduction Act all draw from terms spread across the commercial book. Anti-Kickback and False Claims exposure traces back to rebate, fee, and consulting terms, and the Sunshine Act requires annual reporting of transfers of value.
When those terms stay locked in PDFs, reconciliation is manual and audit-exposed, earned rebates go unclaimed, and obligations are discovered after the fact rather than managed proactively.
Pharmaceutical CLM best practices
- Use standard templates and clear policies for negotiating and executing rebate, supply, and research agreements.
- Track deadlines, renewals, milestone triggers, and price-protection windows in one system rather than spreadsheets.
- Automate intake, approval routing, and alerts so multi-stakeholder sign-off across legal, regulatory, quality, and finance does not stall deals.
- Structure and enforce compliance requirements in the workflow, so the record stays inspection-ready for OIG, CIA, and FDA review.
- Extract the line-item data inside contracts, from rebate stacks and chargeback spreads to CDMO rate tables and royalty tiers, so finance can manage gross-to-net and surface government pricing exposure.
- Maintain accurate, searchable records of every agreement and its amendments so price-affecting changes surface quickly.
What to look for in pharmaceutical CLM software
- Line-item data extraction with fields you define and reprocess as government pricing rules or commercial terms change.
- Parent-child relationship modeling, so master agreements, POs, SOWs, and amendments stay connected.
- A no-code workflow designer with parallel approval routing for multi-function sign-off.
- Configurable dashboards for government pricing exposure, rebate and admin-fee tracking, and milestone and obligation tracking.
- AI-assisted contract review and redlining against your own playbook-driven standards.
- Enterprise security and a long audit trail, hosted on Microsoft Azure, suited to OIG and CIA recordkeeping.
- Integration with the revenue-management, ERP, and e-signature systems you already run.
How Contract Logix helps
Contract Logix gives life sciences teams a configurable platform to author and negotiate agreements, extract their line-item data, and apply playbook-driven first-pass review, all on infrastructure certified to SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA. It complements revenue-management systems by structuring the contract terms those systems compute on, and professional services support teams without deep internal CLM resources.
Frequently asked questions
- What makes pharmaceutical contract management different?
- Life sciences contracts hold line-item financial data that a standard CLM does not model: tiered rebate stacks, CDMO rate tables, chargeback spreads, royalty tiers, and trial milestone grids. They are also interdependent, with master agreements spawning POs, SOWs, and amendments. Pharmaceutical contract management captures those terms as structured data and keeps the relationships explicit.
- How does Contract Logix help with government pricing?
- The Contract Intelligence Engine extracts the discount and pricing terms that feed AMP, Best Price, ASP, and 340B ceiling calculations, and a configurable dashboard surfaces terms that could affect those figures. This makes price-affecting terms queryable so teams can spot Best Price contamination before it reports. This is general information, not legal or regulatory advice.
- Can it handle rebate, chargeback, and admin-fee terms?
- Yes. Rebate tiers, market-share thresholds, admin-fee rates, price-protection caps, and WAC-to-contract chargeback spreads are captured as structured data and aggregated across PBM and GPO contracts, so market access and finance can manage gross-to-net and audit fee creep.
- How does it support clinical trial contracting?
- Templates, structured intake, no-code workflows, and AI first-pass redlining compress the negotiation of clinical trial agreements and CRO statements of work, addressing a well-documented source of trial delay, while per-patient payment grids and milestone triggers are captured as structured data.
- Does Contract Logix replace a revenue-management system like Model N?
- No. Contract Logix is a contract lifecycle and intelligence platform, not a government-pricing calculation engine. It complements revenue-management systems by structuring the contract terms they compute on, adding line-item extraction, Contract Binders for parent-child structure, and AI redlining.
- Is it secure and audit-ready?
- Contract Logix runs on Microsoft Azure and is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA compliant, with role-based access and a 6-year audit trail suited to OIG guidance and Corporate Integrity Agreement reporting.
