The phrase "a draft of the contract" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a preliminary version of a contract that is subject to review or revision.
Example: "Before we finalize the agreement, please send me a draft of the contract for my review."
Alternatives: "a preliminary version of the contract" or "a contract draft".
"The legal department of the Ministry of Oil passed us a draft of the contract," Samir Abid, a Canadian of Iraqi origin who is an employee of the Tatweer program, said in a telephone interview.
"He asked me to come in with a letter of credit plus a draft of the contract," Mr. Patches said, "and when I said I needed a little more time, he told me he had met with the theater's board members and received a letter from a Jewish friend who advised him not to be involved". Because "there had been nothing but good will, the company was stunned" when informed of the cancellation, he said.
In December 2001, when Giambi's agent was negotiating a $120 million contract, he received a draft of the guarantee-exclusion language in the document.
On his phone, he reviewed a draft of a contract formalizing his employment with the Gateway Pundit.
The defense attorneys also point to a draft of a 2011 contract they said shows that Williams and Sutherland were in negotiations for Sutherland to leave her government job and work for Williams through an independent event planning firm.
The State Commission of Investigation said today that it would look into "the events and process leading up to the drafting of the contract" and the awarding of the deal to Parsons, which was the only bidder.
Several drafts of the contract, which hadn't been publicly released, were also among the documents.
The advice on the drafting of the contracts was not binding, he said, and sometimes the ministry chose to ignore it.
Lawmakers were further irked because the Small Business Administration sent a final draft of the women's contracting rule to the Office of Budget and Management.
He finished a draft of "To Have and Have Not" and immediately contracted to write a series of newspaper dispatches from the Madrid front.
HuffPost Italia obtained an early draft of the coalition's governing contract in which the two parties hoped to renegotiate EU treaties and identify ways they could potentially opt out of the euro.
