"develop contacts with" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in any context where you are trying to establish connections with someone or something. For example: "The company's marketing director was tasked with developing contacts with potential customers."
To underscore that policy, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, quietly visited Indonesia last Friday to develop contacts with his counterparts there.
Rather than send troops out on specific missions and then have them return to base, American forces now live in designated sectors to establish a presence, develop contacts with local leaders and cultivate sources of intelligence.
The overseas clients were, in fact, reporters posing as wealth fund executives who had made clear they wished to develop contacts with the prime minister and other senior ministers to further their business.
The clients he met were, in fact, undercover reporters posing as wealth fund executives who had made clear they wished to develop contacts with the prime minister to further their business.
Anxious to break the domination of the Dutch East India Company over Siam's external trade, his officers including Chinese, Persians, and Englishmen developed trade with Japan and India, and Narai sought to develop contacts with the British East India Company and the French.
A group of Buddhist priests and Catholic clergy met with Tiger leaders on Tuesday and urged them to develop contacts with the president Rajapakse, the statement said.
For example, rotor might develop contact with the stationary parts under tighter clearances or rotor could develop fatigue crack under severe thermal and mechanical stresses [2].
Take a small amount of it and rub it over the dye on your face, you can cover your hair so as not to colour it, but as hair dye takes time to develop contact with dye for a short time should not change your hair colour.
"We are going to spend the week developing contacts with the stakeholders".
He started a recruiting service that scouts athletes in the South and he developed contacts with college coaches.
After initial trouble with the Byzantine Empire, Little Armenia established itself and developed contacts with the West.
