Renegotiate the contract before procurement renegotiates you
Most suppliers walk into a renewal with a price list and a good relationship. Procurement walks in with a benchmark, a BATNA, and your last three service failures. This worksheet levels the table: evidence, leverage, stakeholders, and scenarios — all in one page you can fill in and print.
1The contract facts
Start with the clock. If the notice deadline is inside 90 days, your preparation window is already closing.
2Value evidence log
Procurement anchors on price because suppliers show up without evidence of value. Every row here is ammunition. Vague claims (“great partnership”) don’t count — numbers and dates do.
| Value delivered | Baseline / before | Current / after | Proof (report, email, KPI export) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3Leverage balance
Tick what’s true. Be brutal — optimism here costs you margin at the table.
Your leverage
Their leverage
4Stakeholder stance map
Renewals are decided by people who never attend your meetings. Map everyone who touches the decision — a “last contact” older than 60 days on a decision-maker is a red flag.
| Name | Role in decision | Stance | Last contact | Flag | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | |||||
| ? | |||||
| ? |
5Scenarios & trade list
Decide your numbers before the meeting, not during it. And never give a concession without getting one — that’s what the trade list is for.
The problem: this worksheet starts 90 days too late
Everything above is built from data you should have been collecting for the last two years. If you’re filling it in from memory the week before the meeting, the negotiation is already half lost.
EvaluationsHub tracks the contract renewal clock as a commercial signal on every account. The countdown you set in step 1 runs automatically — and alerts fire months before the notice window. See commercial signals →
The value evidence log fills itself: KPIs flow in from your ERP and CRM every cycle, and the chasing engine collects stakeholder feedback on schedule — no last-minute archaeology through old emails. See automated evidence collection →
Champion left? Sponsor gone quiet for 8 weeks? Stakeholder turnover detection flags it when it happens — not when you’re building this map and realise nobody has spoken to procurement since March. See stakeholder mapping →
The strongest renegotiation asset is a scorecard your customer’s own team helped build. The portal lets their stakeholders score and comment all year — by renewal time, the value story is theirs, not yours. See the customer portal →
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