The phrase "a contract to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing agreements related to the creation or development of a product, service, or project.
Example: "We signed a contract to develop a new software application for our client."
Alternatives: "an agreement to create" or "a deal to produce".
In January, Sinopec won a contract to develop natural gas in Saudi Arabia.
One manufacturer already has a contract to develop a plan for two small reactors in Tennessee.
The construction firm Vinci also signed a contract to develop Tehran's main international airport.
Last month, along with Boeing, SpaceX signed a contract to develop a space taxi for Nasa.
The company continued its partnership with NASA, winning a contract to develop a successor to the space shuttle.
He and his associates eventually won a contract to develop proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM) for the Canadian military.
Foster Wheeler has won a Shell Global Solutions International BV contract to develop a basic engineering package for a world-scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) facility at Ras Laffan, Qatar.
DRS Technologies Inc., a maker of electronic defense systems, won a $2.2 million contract to develop an infrared targeting system on tanks for the United States Marine Corps.
Early last year, New Jersey's Chris Cerf took an executive position at Amplify, which in 2013 had won a $12.5-million 12.5-milliondevelop a digital library of student-assessment tools from one of the state contracta toat were developing the Common Core-basedigital.
The Navy has awarded the Boeing a $3.89 billion contract to develop a long-range patrol plane to replace an aircraft that once was the sea service's main submarine hunter, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Comptek's latest technical success is delivering what amounts to a super-computer (with 40 gigabytes of memory, up to 500 billion instructions a second) to Lockheed Martin's Sanders division as part of a $19 million contract to develop an electronic warfare simulator for the F-22 fighter.
