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19 Feb 2026
7 minute read

Contracts Operate: Transforming Contract Management Through Expert-Led Solutions

From Internal Innovation to Client-Facing Excellence

Contracts Operate, our contract management outsourcing service, emerged from Deloitte Legal Central Europe’s proven track record of delivering outsourced contracting services internally within the Deloitte network. With impressive cost savings starting from 20-30% just by changing the location of the team working on your contracts, the increasing market traction in off-shoring contract management to Central Europe is no surprise – and promises great benefits to your organization as well.

What We Offer

We provide contract lifecycle services to ensure streamlined, efficient, and compliant handling of contracts to maximize value and minimize risk throughout the contracting lifecycle. Our portfolio covers both the pre-award and the post-award stage of Contract Lifecycle Management:

Pre-signature

  • Intake and triage
  • Contract creation and negotiation
  • Template, clause and knowledge management
  • Contract signature
  • Contract storage

Post-signature

  • Contract onboarding (incl. metadata extraction
  • Obligation management
  • Contract health checks
  • Contract termination and renewal

Contract Operate represents the next evolution in legal operations support, combining deep expertise with practical, technology-enabled delivery to help organizations achieve greater efficiency and value from their contracting activities. Contact us today to discover how our contract management solutions can transform your legal operations and drive measurable results for your organization.

By using our Contracts Operate services we expect a saving of 20-30% on privacy running costs. This saving is driven by having the team delivering the services in Central Europe.

Depending on current process maturity, we may obtain an additional 10-20% efficiency in the second year of the contract by implementing Deloitte best practices and process improvements.

An Operate setting offers standardized processes across geographies and business lines.

Based on our experience, we propose process improvements to achieve ambitious services KPIs, such as:

  • Reduction of the response time (10-30%)
  • Reduction of the resolution time (20-30%)
  • Contract storage metrics improved

Deloitte Legal Operate services are designed with an AI first mindset. This enables us to boost efficiency and productivity while reducing the risk of human error.

By embedding Deloitte's GenAI Tools in our processes, we offer you an AI enabled contracts experience and valuable lessons you can incorporate in your own contracts team.

Give away the work, not the data

We work directly within our clients’ existing Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems, running contracting operations on their behalf and ensuring that your valuable and confidential data stays under your control. This approach enables organizations to leverage their technology investments whilst benefiting from dedicated expert support, ensuring seamless integration with existing processes and systems.Our team is familiar with many CLM systems including Icertis, Sirion, DocuSign CLM, Agiloft, Ironclad, Malbek, Coupa or SAP Ariba. Our deep expertise in how to configure and run CLM systems drastically reduces your onboarding efforts.

AI in the loop

And if desired, we will gladly leverage your organization’s AI capabilities for managing your contracts – or bring our own. We are using the latest in Legal AI technology, both standard tools like Legora and proprietary toolkits like our Smart Document Assistant (SDA).

Talk to us and find out how Contracts Operate can streamline your contracting processes.

Authors

Klaus Gresbrand
Partner | Deloitte Legal  Deutschland                                   

Lorena Roșia
Managing Associate | Deloitte Legal Rumänien

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Klaus Gresbrand

Klaus Gresbrand

Partner | Corporate/M&A | LFT | LMS
+49 211 8772 2501

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