Contracts Application Life Cycle

The flowchart below provides an overview of the whole research contracts process from idea stage to approval in principal to opening the cost centre. Research contracts are more complicated than grant applications as a few more steps are involved such as negotiations, legal assessment, intellectual property etc. If you are working on developing a contract touch base with a Contracts Manager as soon as possible and allow for more planning time. Some of the text in the flowchart is linked to specific reference pages, for more information click on the text of interest.