Con­tract man­age­ment for the
Public Ad­min­is­tra­tion

Pro­cure­ment, EVB-IT, main­ten­ance, lease, and co­oper­a­tion con­tracts are con­sol­id­ated into digital con­tract files along with at­tach­ments, cor­res­pond­ence, and other doc­u­ments. This enables the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity, the legal de­part­ment, the finance de­part­ment, and the rel­ev­ant func­tion­al areas to work from a con­sist­ent and up-to-date set of in­form­a­tion.

Role-based access rights ensure that au­thor­ized users receive exactly the Con­tract in­form­a­tion they need to perform their tasks. This allows Con­tracts to be managed col­lab­or­at­ively across mul­tiple loc­a­tions, or­gan­isa­tion­al units, or sub­si­di­ar­ies without grant­ing un­res­tric­ted access to sens­it­ive content.

Over­looked ter­min­a­tion or renewal dead­lines can result in long-term ob­lig­a­tions and avoid­able costs for the public budget. otris con­tract high­lights up­com­ing dead­lines well in advance and auto­mat­ic­ally no­ti­fies the ap­pro­pri­ate per­son­nel.

Sub­sti­tu­tion and es­cal­a­tion policies ensure re­li­able pro­cessing even during va­ca­tions, sick leave, or per­son­nel changes. Crit­ic­al terms can be ana­lyzed cent­rally, al­low­ing data con­trol­lers to decide in a timely manner whether a Con­tract should be con­tin­ued, amended, or ter­min­ated.

Con­tract reviews and ap­provals often involve mul­tiple de­part­ments. With otris con­tract, ap­provals, ap­prov­al work­flows, and es­cal­a­tions follow the defined re­spons­ib­il­it­ies and rules of your or­gan­iz­a­tion. All parties in­volved can see the current status of the process, which de­cisions are still pending, and who is re­spons­ible for the next step.

Ap­proved tem­plates and text modules also support the con­sist­ent draft­ing of re­cur­ring agree­ments, such as EVB-IT, frame­work, or stand­ard con­tracts. This reduces the need for follow-up ques­tions, con­cur­rent editing, and working with dif­fer­ent doc­u­ment ver­sions.

Con­tract ver­sions, amend­ments, ap­provals, and pro­cessing steps remain trace­ably linked to the re­spect­ive trans­ac­tion. Instead of having to scramble at the last minute to gather the ne­ces­sary doc­u­ments from various drives, paper files, and email inboxes, the ad­min­is­tra­tion can rely on a struc­tured and doc­u­mented con­tract port­fo­lio.

This allows in­form­a­tion to be made avail­able more quickly and in an or­gan­ized manner to in­tern­al audit, su­per­vis­ory bodies, the Court of Aud­it­ors, or other audit­ing agen­cies. At the same time, it remains clear which version is valid, who made a de­cision, and how a process was handled.

For VAT rating pur­poses under Section 2b of the German Value-Added Tax Act (UStG), legal en­tit­ies under public law require a re­li­able over­view of trans­ac­tions in­volving con­sid­er­a­tion and their con­trac­tu­al basis.

With otris con­tract, you can tag rel­ev­ant con­tracts based on spe­cif­ic cri­ter­ia, doc­u­ment re­spons­ib­il­it­ies and pro­cessing statuses, and cent­rally con­sol­id­ate con­tract doc­u­ments and audit notes.

This allows the Finance De­part­ment and the rel­ev­ant spe­cial­ized units to identi­fy which issues have already been re­viewed and where further action is still needed.

When it comes to sens­it­ive con­trac­tu­al, fin­an­cial, and per­son­al data, it is crucial to know where the in­form­a­tion is pro­cessed and who has access to it. otris con­tract is de­veloped in Germany and can be op­er­ated as a SaaS solu­tion in German data centers or—de­pend­ing on the edition se­lec­ted—on your own IT in­fra­struc­ture.

This allows you to select the op­er­at­ing model that best fits your or­gan­iz­a­tion’s se­cur­ity re­quire­ments and ex­ist­ing IT in­fra­struc­ture. Dis­tinct roles and per­mis­sions, en­cryp­ted trans­mis­sion chan­nels, and trace­able access support the con­trolled hand­ling of con­fid­en­tial con­tract data.

Re­view­ing ex­tens­ive con­tracts, com­par­ing clauses, or ex­tract­ing in­form­a­tion from older con­tract port­fo­li­os: otris copilot assists with re­cur­ring ana­lys­is and re­search tasks dir­ectly within the Con­tract man­age­ment system. This allows you to identi­fy rel­ev­ant content more quickly and eval­u­ate con­tract in­form­a­tion in a more tar­geted manner.

Your or­gan­isa­tion de­term­ines which AI models are used and what data they are per­mit­ted to access. The results serve as a support tool for the rel­ev­ant em­ploy­ees; the tech­nic­al review and de­cision-making remain the re­spons­ib­il­ity of the data con­trol­lers.

Learn more about AI in­teg­ra­tion in otris spe­cial­ist solu­tions.

Con­tract man­age­ment in­volves the struc­tured man­age­ment of con­tracts through­out their entire li­fe­cycle—from cre­ation and review, through ap­provals and terms, to doc­u­ment­a­tion and archiv­ing. Con­tract man­age­ment soft­ware con­sol­id­ates con­tract data, doc­u­ments, re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, and pro­cessing steps into digital con­tract files.

With otris con­tract, you can manage a variety of con­tracts, in­clud­ing pro­cure­ment, EVB-IT, Ser­vices, main­ten­ance, lease, frame­work, grant, and co­oper­a­tion agree­ments. These Con­tract types can be con­figured with their own Master data, terms, re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, and Ap­prov­al pro­cesses.

Con­tracts res­ult­ing from pro­cure­ment pro­ced­ures can be doc­u­mented in a digital con­tract file along with at­tach­ments, ap­provals, and other doc­u­ments. For re­cur­ring EVB-IT and stand­ard con­tracts, veri­fied tem­plates and text modules can be used. Signing and Ap­prov­al pro­cesses can be tailored to the re­spons­ib­il­it­ies of the ad­min­is­trat­ive de­part­ment.

Access and editing rights can be as­signed based on or­gan­isa­tion­al unit, role, in­di­vidu­al, or con­tract. This ensures that the con­tract­ing office, legal de­part­ment, finance de­part­ment, and func­tion­al areas receive the in­form­a­tion they need to perform their tasks, while sens­it­ive con­tract de­scrip­tions remain pro­tec­ted.

Ver­sions, changes, ap­provals, and editing steps remain linked to the re­spect­ive Con­tract and are doc­u­mented in a trace­able manner. This allows the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion to be provided in a struc­tured format for in­tern­al audits, reg­u­lat­ory over­sight, or the State Audit Office. Whether all re­quire­ments for a spe­cif­ic elec­tron­ic file are met also depends on the con­fig­ur­a­tion and or­gan­iz­a­tion­al guidelines of the re­spect­ive ad­min­is­trat­ive body.

Otris’ SaaS solu­tion is hosted in German data centers. De­pend­ing on the edition se­lec­ted, it can also be op­er­ated on the cus­tom­er’s own IT in­fra­struc­ture. Role-based per­mis­sions and en­cryp­ted data trans­mis­sion chan­nels ensure the secure hand­ling of sens­it­ive Con­tract and per­son­al data.

otris con­tract can be in­teg­rated into ex­ist­ing IT en­vir­on­ments via in­ter­faces, such as elec­tron­ic records man­age­ment, doc­u­ment man­age­ment systems (DMS), en­ter­prise re­source plan­ning (ERP), elec­tron­ic pro­cure­ment, and other spe­cial­ized systems. The spe­cif­ic systems and data to be in­teg­rated are de­term­ined based on tech­nic­al and or­gan­iz­a­tion­al re­quire­ments.

Ex­ist­ing con­tract data and doc­u­ments can be im­por­ted into otris con­tract as part of a co­ordin­ated mi­gra­tion plan. The spe­cif­ic data, metadata, and doc­u­ment struc­tures that are im­por­ted depend on the ex­ist­ing data sets and systems. Scanned doc­u­ments can be made search­able using OCR.

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