"alliance contract" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a formal agreement made between two or more entities in order to form a collaborative working relationship. For example, "The new alliance contract will ensure a successful collaboration between the two companies."
While employed with Day and Zimmerman, consulting engineers in Richmond, Virginia, we were unsuccessful extending our alliance contract with Honeywell Corporation.
As the market fell, that sum retreated to $3.7 billion by last December, when the Alliance contract was terminated.
JBEK, an Aker Kvaerner and BE&K joint venture, has secured a five-year alliance contract from DuPont Engineering to be the provider of engineering, procurement and construction management services for US plant based projects up to US$10 million.
What emerges from this study is a better understanding of how alliances differ from other types of interfirm relationships and how these differences are reflected in the alliance contract.
Shell UK Oil Products Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd a new alliance contract for basic design, engineering, procurement and construction management services at Shell's Stanlow complex in the UK.
We extend the analysis to show when the client should be involved in the project organization in an alliance contract, and when they should not, as in a traditional project contract.
Through an exploration of 15 alliance contracts to develop jet engines between a major aerospace manufacturer and eleven different alliance partners, we seek to understand the structure and purpose of these alliance contracts and their differences from standard buyer supplier contracts.
The findings reveal that alliance contracts vary greatly in their complexity, yet contracts for non-equity alliances tend to be no more or less complex than those for equity alliances on average.
Advancing upon taxonomical research on interfirm alliances, we investigate the design of entrepreneurial firms' alliances in more fine-grained terms by focusing on the specific contractual provisions that firms negotiate into their alliance contracts.
The alliance contracts we study are designed to share risk, facilitate learning and the exchange of knowledge, specify roles and responsibilities, and provide administrative mechanisms for adapting and resolving disputes.
But Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund, says a more integrated model will need to be supported by commissioning that makes use of alliance contracts, prime provider and lead provider contracts.
