Contract & Grant Management

Innovate

Your company has unique ideas and innovations. We can help.

As your capabilities meet the marketplace, your first steps can make or break your success. You can avoid losing rights to intellectual property by managing subcontractor, contractor, and grantee agreements. You can respond to future grant and contract solicitations faster, and prove ownership of your ideas easily by implementing government accounting practices early.

Summit Contract Management can help you protect and promote your innovations by attending to the right details, right away. Summit Contract Management provides step-by-step guidance and support services in government procurement from the beginning of the acquisition lifecycle to contract and grant close-out. Our customers are government agencies, entrepreneurs, inventors and businesses.

Find Solicitation

Every government agency solicits products and services from U.S. businesses and researchers, every year.

Finding solicitations for contract bids and grant applications can be easy, once you know where to look. You’ll also need to register through appropriate services to show that your company is eligible to respond. If you are new to government grants and contracts, Summit Contract Management can make it easy to find solicitations, demonstrate eligibility and pursue opportunities where your organization can best compete.

Proposal

A good proposal will do more than just secure a contract or grant.

Preparing the right information up front will prevent you from covering unexpected project costs, or having to return money at the project’s end. Summit Contract Management can help you establish your company’s direct and indirect rates, avoid unallowable costs, and articulate technical and business requirements. You’ll know what resources to tout at the project’s outset, and ensure that the deliverables committed don’t exceed your intentions.

Pre-Award

Let us help you demonstrate your worth.

Before your grant or contract is awarded, your company will confirm that it can perform the work required and demonstrate your systems for tracking project finances and property. This is also an opportunity to propose contract changes. Summit Contract Management has experience negotiating all types of procurements and grants, including pricing, terms and conditions. We can help demonstrate your ability to perform and secure a better outcome for your business.

Award

Once your company is selected for an award, it’s time for careful review.

Government contracts often contain wording or pricing errors, omit important clauses, or fail to reference other documents that protect your rights. Summit Contract Management can clarify important terms and conditions, summarize essential contract areas, and prepare subcontracts and consulting agreements that flow down essential clauses.

When it’s time to sign an agreement, we’ll help make sure the contract meets your expectations.

Perform

When you put your wheels in motion, we can help keep you on track.

Your business will need systems for managing project property, monitoring cash flow, and tracking indirect rates. Setting up the records you must maintain, and complying with other regulations can be time consuming, particularly the first time around. Summit Contract Management can simplify the process, and help your company receive payment when—and as frequently—as it should.

Close-Out

When the project is over, some final attention to detail will ensure that your company meets its obligations.

You’ll provide your final report or deliverables, return project property, and submit forms summarizing your results. There are additional steps for protecting your intellectual property and releasing your company from unforeseen project costs. Summit Contract Management can make the process easier, and let you focus on getting your next award.