Commercial Contracting Performance Assessment
How do you currently contract and negotiate, and how well does that serve your business objectives ?
Assess – step one of the Devant Contracting Performance Framework
Identify Where Value Is Being Lost
We conduct a structured assessment across the entire contract lifecycle, analysing everything from template design, risk allocation, and concession patterns to the behavior and decision-making driving your negotiations.
By evaluating your approval workflows, bottleneck areas, and cross-team alignment between sales, legal, procurement, and delivery, we identify exactly what is stalling your time-to-signature and impacting post-signature performance.
What you receive
The assessment provides a practical, evidence-based diagnostic assessment of your commercial contracting function. It identifies where value is being lost, where risk and reward are out of balance, and where governance, processes or capabilities are limiting performance.
The best organisations use contracts to create value, not just manage risk. A robust contracting framework enables faster deals, stronger negotiations, better commercial outcomes and greater control.
By identifying commercial friction points, structural bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement, we create a clear picture of how contracts are really supporting – or constraining – your business objectives. The outcome is a prioritised roadmap of practical recommendations designed to improve efficiency, strengthen commercial outcomes and increase the value delivered through contracting.
How the assessment works
A Collaborative Approach
Devant’s role is to provide expertise, challenge and structure—not to create dependency.
Many clients choose a collaborative approach, with internal teams carrying out elements of the information gathering and analysis process using frameworks, tools and guidance provided by Devant.
This approach:
Together, these steps create a practical, evidence-based roadmap to drive meaningful and sustainable improvement.
Better contracts are not the goal.
Better commercial outcomes are.
