Glossary
Glossary
The meaning of the terms Vortex Contracting uses, in the manner of the definitions clause of an agreement.
- Contractbeeld
- The service of Vortex: a current, maintained and traceable contract file with the agreed records, checks, process monitoring and reports. Dutch for “contract view”.
- Contract secretariat
- The process beneath the contract: recording, checking, monitoring, flagging and reporting. This is the role of Vortex. In Dutch: contractbeheersing.
- Contract secretary
- The role of Vortex in the collaboration: it secures the process around the agreements, without deciding on their substance.
- Contract management
- The substantive role in the collaboration: making choices, assessing, deciding, approving and carrying the relationship. This role remains with the client and the contractor.
- Operational contract baseline
- The structured, traceable baseline version of the applicable contractual agreements: the foundation of Contractbeeld.
- Baseline version
- The first established position of the applicable agreements on an agreed reference date: version 0.0.
- Set-up
- Establishing the file, registers, access and information flow at the start of Contractbeeld. Part of Contractbeeld, not a separate product.
- Domain
- A coherent management area with several contracts and internal teams, steered by an asset manager.
- Process coordinator
- An independent professional who applies the Vortex system at client organisations within the fixed frameworks of Vortex: coordination, second checks, conversations and directing the process. In Dutch: procesregisseur.
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