REPORT: 2025 Annual ProcureCon Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Report

Contract Management for Federal Government

Accelerate IT modernization, increase taxpayer value, and streamline acquisition processes with end-to-end contract intelligence

The Challenges

Today’s federal agencies face complex acquisitions, an ever-evolving federal landscape, and increased pressure to accelerate IT modernization efforts. To meet these demands, agencies need to improve their contract management and performance by streamlining contract writing and automating repetitive administrative tasks such as manual reporting requirements.  Additional challenges include:

  • Slow acquisition cycle- times due to paper-based, manual processes and workflows combined with outdated legacy systems, resulting in an increase in overall Procurement Administrative Lead Time (PALT).
  • Lack of consistent acquisition practices, methods, and predictable outcomes to provide full transparency into contract obligations, performance, and compliance.
  • Outdated legacy systems that require costly customization to support business process changes, new requirements, and legislative or regulatory changes.
  • Lack of integrated performance management to track and evaluate performance after a contract is awarded to ensure programs meet contractual obligations.
  • Siloed applications with limited integration capabilities require additional bespoke solution development or manual data normalization to provide a full reporting data set across the acquisition process.
  • Limited real-time acquisition intelligence with multiple data sources resulting in fragmented spend visibility and operational reporting across sub-agencies and departments.

The Solution

Icertis for Federal Government

Icertis for Federal Government is an AI-powered, end-to-end contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform in the government cloud. Icertis enables government agencies and contractors alike to transform contracts into strategic assets to increase efficiency and productivity, protect against risk, and ensure proactive regulatory and policy compliance. The Icertis platform is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution deployed on dedicated Microsoft Azure Government cloud infrastructure (GCC High and FedRAMP Moderate Ready (NIST 800-53)) that provides federal clients with these powerful capabilities:

  • Contract Type and Terms & Conditions

    Support for all contract types, determination of appropriate FAR/DFARS/Agency provisions, and development of Section H. Special Provisions to be included in the contract. Post-award, the requirements arising from these clauses and terms & conditions can be managed throughout the entire contract lifecycle.

  • RFx management

    Conduct market research, issue RFIs, draft and release RFxs via SAM.gov. Perform source selection to ensure proper documentation of the source selection decision to mitigate protest risks. Migrate critical source selection information to the post-award lifecycle.

  • Integrate with other systems of record

    Maximize your government contract software investment with standardized integrations with most major ERP, CRM, procurement, electronic signature and identity management applications to enable a seamless flow of data into and out of the platform during both standard run-of-business and audits.

  • Compliance management

    Advanced document association intelligence and enhanced visibility for automated obligations and compliance with FAR/DFARS, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and other regulatory/compliance mandates.

  • Standardize with clause and template libraries

    Establish clause requirements by leveraging the capabilities of Acquisition.gov to review new regulations and executive orders. Establish lower-level clause requirements in your organization’s custom clause library for more efficient contract management.

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Standardize, streamline, and automate every contract – everywhere

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Enable secure communication with your suppliers, customers and partners

The Icertis Collaboration Portal extends controlled access to the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform to outside organizations for more effective collaboration throughout the contract lifecycle.

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Manage commitments and realize the full value of entitlements

Transform how your organization identifies, creates, manages, and fulfills obligations previously hidden in complex contract language.

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