Biotech Clinical Trial Vendor Optimization Services

Looking to optimize vendor relationships for your biotech clinical trials?

Our Biotech Clinical Trial Vendor Optimization Services help sponsors streamline vendor selection, improve collaboration, and drive efficiency across all trial phases. With over a decade of experience in life sciences, we ensure that your vendor partnerships align with your scientific and operational goals, reducing delays, and enhancing trial success. From strategic vendor management to contract negotiation, we provide tailored solutions that maximize trial outcomes and minimize operational risks.

Vendor Strategy

Effective Strategies That Drive Operational Readiness

We help you optimize your vendor strategy with expert insights and consulting. We ensure you’re operationally ready, establishing clear timelines and budgets. Our independent, unbiased approach provides you with the knowledge to make informed decisions, address investor concerns, and reduce risks in your clinical trials.

Market Scan

Make Informed Decisions with Our Comprehensive Market Scan Service.

Our Market Scan service provides a tailored, in-depth analysis to identify the best-fit vendors for your clinical trial. We combine expert insights with thorough evaluation methods to give you a ranked shortlist of vendors that align with your specific needs. This approach ensures you select partners who will deliver maximum value, reduce risks, and drive clinical success.

Vendor Selection

Elevate Your CRO Selection Process

Keep your trials on track and on time, and your budget under control with a comprehensive Vendor Selection Process.  Whether you’re looking for a lab or logistics supplier, a specialty provider, or a full-service CRO, we can support you from alignment to award. Our vendor selection experts follow our proven process, working efficiently to help you meet the study startup timeline and enabling you to focus on what matters most: running your trial.

Contract Negotiation

Create Clarity, Save Resources, and Build a Solid Foundation for your Vendor Relationship.

With our Contract Negotiation Service, you benefit from over a decade of life science and business expertise, so you can apply the inside knowledge we have gained working with the major CROs and CDMOs. Your needs dictate our approach: we build a custom process using proven elements, including a contract template that puts you in control of the negotiation.

Vendor Qualification (GCP & GMP)

Vendor Qualification Tailored to the Needs of Your Trial

We conduct fit-for-purpose vendor qualification through expert audits, qualification questionnaires, SOPs, and comprehensive document reviews to confirm that your vendors are fully qualified for the services they provide.

Our Vendor Qualification service gives you confidence that all vendors used for your clinical trials are qualified for their services. We offer tailored evaluations using audits, visits, questionnaires, and reviews of SOPs and relevant documentation.

Our experienced experts provide a thorough assessment, identifying potential risks and aiding in informed vendor management decisions.

Systems Validation Consulting

Expert Guidance for Navigating System Validation

Experts guide you through the intricate process of system validation. We help you set up required audits, craft effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and align on a pragmatic strategy for how your organization will approach validation. This enables you to demonstrate how you have ensured your computerized system is fit for purpose, which is a regulatory requirement. Our consulting expertise helps to ensure your validation process is well-planned, documented, and aligned with industry best practices, increasing the likelihood of successful outcomes. .

Study Risk Management Setup

Start Risk Management Early: Protect Patients, Data, and Budget

We offers a comprehensive risk management setup service to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks in your clinical trials, ensuring compliance, patient safety, data integrity, and operational efficiency from the start. Our Study Risk Management Setup service ensures a structured approach to identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in clinical trials. Develop a detailed risk log and facilitate ongoing risk management meetings to ensure compliance and enhance trial efficiency.

Governance & Reporting

Bespoke Governance Built with Inside Knowledge that Puts the Sponsor in Control

As a sponsor, to be compliant, you need clear oversight of your clinical trial, including the tasks and responsibilities you delegate to vendors. We have the tools you need to gain and maintain oversight throughout your clinical trial.  Strengthen your oversight and solidify your governance to keep your trial on track. Take control, gain enhanced oversight, and ensure critical vendors meet the right KPIs to drive your trial forward with the comprehensive Governance.

Vendor Oversight

Comprehensive Vendor Oversight 

We specialize in meticulously managing and documenting all vendors and subcontractors involved in your clinical trials. Our service provide the tools for a robust oversight approach that enhances vendor management and supports regulatory adherence.

We support you in determining and documenting the oversight you will implement for each of your vendors. We offer comprehensive vendor listings, vendor assessments, and customized vendor oversight plans. This ensures thorough documentation and effective management for all vendors, including subcontractors, to optimize oversight and regulatory compliance.

Clinical System Analysis

Protect Your Clinical Data Integrity and Safeguard your Trial

Our system and technology experts provide the independent advice you need to ensure your clinical system is fit for purpose. We map your data flow, highlighting any gaps or areas of risk to your data integrity, and explore efficiency gains through use of data integration. We quantify how integrated your clinical system is and enable you to gain a deeper understanding of the quality of data exchange and frequency. This enables you to prioritize systems that protect your data integrity and establish expectations that support you in your oversight activities.

Sponsor & Vendor Team Dynamics Workshop

Establish Cohesive Teams for Clinical Trial Success

Our Vendor and Sponsor Study Team Dynamics Workshop fosters collaboration and trust between sponsors and their critical vendor teams, ensuring cohesive team dynamics, effective communication, and the alignment necessary for successful clinical trial execution. Designed to establish a strong foundation of communication and collaboration between your clinical trial teams and your vendors. Set the stage for successful partnerships throughout the clinical trial process.

Clinical System Implementation and Oversight

Protect your Clinical Data Integrity with Expert Implementation and Oversight of your Systems

Our expert consulting team ensures seamless systems implementation and oversight from study initiation to close and archival. Through comprehensive clinical systems analysis, we provide prioritized recommendations that safeguard your interests. By facilitating communication with CROs and clinical technology vendors, we ensure efficient collaboration and alignment. With evolving regulatory requirements, We serve as your trusted partner, verifying that all systems set up by your vendors meet compliance standards and support successful trial execution.

Vendor Management

Manage the Intricacies of Vendor Management with a Team Equipped for the Job.

We help you build strong vendor relationships, enabling you to manage unexpected challenges and mitigate risks collaboratively for a smooth-running clinical trial. Our hands-on approach ensures improved cost and time efficiency, as well as timely milestone achievement. With multiple vendors to align, we take care of performance monitoring, facilitate clear communication, and swiftly resolve any issues or incidents. By managing vendor performance, risks, and finances, we ensure your clinical trial stays on track and achieves successful outcomes.

Budget & Change Order Management

Financial Peace of Mind: Streamlined Budget and Change Order Management

Our expert analysts provide comprehensive financial oversight for your clinical trials, including detailed budget tracking and efficient change order management. This ensures strategic foresight and gives you peace of mind throughout the trial process.

Risk Management

Empowering Your Teams to Improve Quality Through Strategic Risk Management  

As your expert guide in clinical trial risk management, we help your team identify and address risks early, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of your clinical trials. We support ongoing improvements by fostering awareness of risks and their potential impacts and applying robust mitigation strategies. While compliance is a key benefit, our primary goal is to drive continuous excellence and enhanced submission quality in your trials.

Conflict & Collaboration Solutions

Streamline Vendor Collaboration for Better Outcomes

Our Conflict & Collaboration Solutions enhance the interaction between you and your vendors, ensuring clear, effective communication that fosters collaboration, mitigates risks, and resolves conflicts to drive project success. We bridge communication gaps through tailored solutions, including workshops, gap analysis, training, and conflict resolution, helping you build strong partnerships and achieve seamless project execution.

Inspection Readiness

Your Path to Good Quality Regulatory Submission

Our Inspection Readiness service helps you prepare for regulatory inspections by conducting thorough assessments or mock inspections led by experienced auditors simulating FDA or EMA inspectors. We manage every detail, from organizing multi-day inspection readiness meetings, setting the agenda, and coordinating attendees to handling travel logistics and venue setup. We also ensure both the front room (auditor’s workspace) and backroom (document handling and follow-ups) are fully prepared for seamless operations, enabling prompt responses and detailed tracking. By identifying potential compliance gaps early, we minimize risks and help ensure a smooth regulatory submission process.

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What others say

“The Seuss+ team takes a thorough and structured approach to the challenging and often complex process of CRO partner selection. The journey they take you through is comprehensive, creative and robust, ensuring you get the most out of the whole team’s contributions and take a complete 360 view of your partner needs, challenging and injecting fun at every step. This organized, dedicated and enthusiastic team goes the extra mile to guide you to a final highly, data-driven decision, which meets your business needs and serves as a strong basis for the conduct and delivery of outsourced trials!”

Vice President of Clinical Development • Drug Co-Development Company

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