Source-to-Contract

Manage your contracts from tendering through to closeout

SEMS digitizes the entire lifecycle of your works, supply and service contracts. Centralize the related tenders, awards, contract documents, payment certificates, guarantees, amendments and deliverables in a single solution.

Track the operational, contractual and financial progress of every contract in real time, secure your commitments and keep a complete audit trail of every decision, from the RFQ through to closeout.

  • Centralized contracts
  • Operational and financial tracking
  • Traceable decisions
Built for Procurement, Business and Finance teams
Key features

What Contract & Works Management enables

SEMS centralizes commitments, work performed, payments, guarantees, deadlines and contract changes in a single digital file, shared across Procurement, Business, Finance and Legal.

RFQ & tendering

Prepare, publish and manage the tender related to the contract, all the way through to award.

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Analysis & award

Compare bids against objective criteria and turn the winning bid into a contract, with no re-entry of data.

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Payment certificates

Prepare and validate interim and final payment certificates based on the contract's actual progress.

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Guarantees

Track the calculation, retention and release of guarantees and retention money through to their discharge.

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Amendments

Track amendments and their impact on the contract's amount, deadlines and scope.

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Deliverables & acceptance

Accept each deliverable or milestone, formally record reservations and their clearance.

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Deadlines & milestones

Centralize service orders, extensions and deadlines, with automatic alerts.

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FROM TENDER TO CLOSEOUT

A fully digitized journey

With SEMS, you manage the entire lifecycle of your works contracts, in a fully digital continuity, from preparation through to closeout.

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Prepare the contract

Structure the subject, lots, budget and contract documents.

Consult suppliers

Launch your RFQs, manage exchanges and analyze bids.

Analyze & award

Compare bids against objective criteria and notify the contract award.

Track execution

Centralize service orders, work performed and site progress.

Manage payment certificates

Prepare and validate interim and final payment certificates.

Track guarantees

Manage guarantees and retention money through to their discharge.

Manage amendments

Track contract changes and their impact on amounts and deadlines.

Close out the contract

Consolidate deliverables and documents into a complete, auditable file.

MANAGEMENT & TRACKING

Manage every contract in real time

Get a complete, up-to-date view of your contracts' progress, with key indicators and automatic alerts for better control of deadlines, costs and risks.

Physical and financial progress
Upcoming milestones and deadlines
Delays and automatic alerts
Service order tracking
Resource mobilization
Payment and payment-certificate tracking
Status of guarantees and retentions
Scope changes and amendments
Customized dashboards
WORKS CONTRACT

A complete, structured contract file

Centralize all contract information in a single contract file, for reliable, collaborative tracking that complies with your procedures.

General information
Contract holder and stakeholders
Amounts and price revisions
Deadlines and schedule
Contract documents
Guarantees and insurance
Payment certificates and payments
Amendments and changes
Deliverables and acceptance
History and traceability
RFQ & TENDERING

From tender to award, without interruption

Prepare and manage the request for quotation tied to your contract directly from SEMS, then compare bids against objective, configurable criteria.

Create an RFQ from an identified need
Structure lots, items and services
Invite selected suppliers
Publish the tender and centralize bids
Manage clarification requests
Organize multiple tender rounds
Compare financial and technical proposals
Analyze total cost of ownership (TCO) and lead times
Negotiate bids
Manage evaluation committees
Validate the choice of awardee
Turn the winning bid into a contract with no re-entry of data
PAYMENT CERTIFICATES

Financial execution under control

Digitize the preparation, control and validation of your interim, periodic and final payment certificates. Each certificate is linked to the contract, its contract line items and the work actually performed.

Creation of interim and final payment certificates
Entry of quantities or services performed
Calculation of amounts due and previous cumulative total
Accounting for advance payments
Application of retention money and penalties
Price revision management
Tracking of applicable taxes and deductions
Adding supporting documents and attachments
Validation via a configurable workflow
Tracking of amount paid and balance due
GUARANTEES & AMENDMENTS

Guarantees, retentions and amendments under control

Centralize the tracking of every guarantee tied to your contracts and govern contract changes through a structured preparation, control and validation workflow.

Bid bond, final and performance guarantees
Retention money and advance-payment repayment guarantee
Automatic deadline alerts
Release or discharge conditional on outstanding reservations
Increase or decrease of the contract amount
Changes to quantities, prices or scope
Extension or reduction of the execution deadline
Suspension, resumption or partial termination
Cumulative changes and new contract amount
DELIVERABLES, ACCEPTANCE & TRACKING

A consolidated view of every contract

Plan deliverables and milestones, formalize acceptance and manage deadlines with dashboards and automatic alerts.

Tracking of contract deliverables and milestones
Partial, provisional and final acceptance
Issuing and clearing reservations
Tracking of service orders and extensions
Real-time operational and financial dashboard
Physical and financial progress rate
Alerts on deadlines, delays and overruns
Centralized contract file and full activity log
WHY CHOOSE SEMS

Why choose SEMS to manage your contracts?

Ensure full continuity between sourcing and execution, so you stay in control of your commitments from the first tender through to contract closeout.

Commitment control

Control original amounts, amendments, payment certificates, guarantees and the remaining balance to be executed.

Sourcing-to-execution continuity

Turn an awarded tender into an operational contract with no re-entry of data.

Risk reduction

Detect delays, overruns, expiring guarantees and unresolved reservations.

Centralized collaboration

Bring Procurement, Business, Finance, Legal and suppliers together around a shared file.

Real-time visibility

Access consolidated dashboards on operational, financial and contractual progress.

Full traceability

Keep a history of documents, validations, changes and decisions.

Simplified audit preparation

Quickly retrieve all the information needed for internal and external audits.

Integration with your information system

Connect SEMS to your ERP, accounting system or other applications via API.

Other Source-to-Contract modules

Discover related modules

Complement Contract & Works Management with our other Source-to-Contract modules.

Take action

Want to see Contract & Works Management in action?

Reduce risk, control your commitments and secure the execution of your contracts, from supplier tendering through to final acceptance.

One seamless journey, from RFQ
to contract closeout
Payment certificates, guarantees
and amendments, fully tracked
Real-time dashboards
and alerts