Award module
An agreement somebody can find without asking
Negotiations tracked on the same record as the proposal and the award, with export-control activity attached to them rather than kept in a parallel list.
The failure this replaces
Where is that agreement? Ask the person negotiating it.
Negotiation is the one part of the research lifecycle that most often lives in a mailbox. The proposal is in a system, the award will be in a system, and in between there is a thread between a negotiator, a sponsor's counsel and a PI who is asking every fortnight.
It works while that negotiator is at their desk. It stops working the week they are not, and it can never answer the question a vice president eventually asks, which is how long agreements take here compared with last year.
What it does
Terms, status, and what touches export control
The negotiation hangs off the award
Negotiations, funding actions, report obligations and outgoing subawards all attach to the same record. Nothing is re-entered, and nothing quietly diverges from the proposal it came from.
Export control, tracked alongside
The export control module works together with Negotiations, so activity that touches export controls is recorded against the agreement it belongs to rather than in a parallel list.
Transparency into where things stand
The status of an agreement is on the record rather than in the negotiator's inbox. A PI asking where their contract has got to is a lookup, not an interruption.
The history stays attached
The award keeps the proposal's history rather than starting a new one, so the terms being negotiated sit next to what was proposed and what was funded.
Subawards on the same footing
Outgoing subawards carry pass-through and subrecipient contacts, funds released and anticipated funding, and generate FDP agreements and modifications from that data.
Reportable like everything else
Because negotiations are records rather than correspondence, they appear in Streamlyne Reporting alongside proposals and awards — including the question nobody can currently answer, which is how long agreements actually take.
Why it is not a separate purchase
The agreement is about money that already has a record
A research agreement exists because a proposal was submitted and something is going to be funded. Both of those are already records in your system — so tracking the negotiation anywhere else means maintaining a link between it and the two things it is about.
In Streamlyne the negotiation hangs off the award, export control is tracked alongside it, and reporting reads across all three. That is why these modules are usually taken together rather than one at a time.
- NegotiationsAgreements in progress, with their status visible
- Export controlActivity recorded against the agreement it belongs to
- AwardThe record the negotiation hangs off
- SubawardsOutgoing agreements and FDP paperwork
- ReportingHow long agreements actually take, across the portfolio
Questions
What a contracts office asks
What does the negotiations module track?
Agreements in progress against the award and proposal they belong to: who is negotiating, where it stands, what has changed, and any export-control activity attached to it. Its job is to turn a negotiation from correspondence somebody is holding into a record the office can see.
Does it review or redline contracts for us?
The module tracks the negotiation; it does not draft or redline. Lyn, the AI inside Streamlyne Research, reads an incoming agreement and marks clauses that conflict with your institution's positions, citing the policy it is reasoning from — but a person decides. We would rather be precise about that line than let a demo blur it.
How does export control fit in?
The export control module collects information on export-control activities in research and works together with Negotiations, so the two are tracked as one thing rather than reconciled between two lists. That pairing is why the modules are usually adopted together.
Can we see how long negotiations are taking?
Yes, and it is usually the first question asked once the data exists. Because negotiations are records rather than email threads, Streamlyne Reporting can answer it across the portfolio — which is a different conversation from asking each negotiator how they feel it is going.
Does this replace our contracts system?
For research agreements attached to proposals and awards, it is where they belong, because that is where the money and the compliance already are. If your institution runs a central CLM for every contract type, the honest answer is that these overlap and you should decide deliberately rather than run both by accident.
Which interface does it use?
The award modules, negotiations included, run in the classic Streamlyne interface today. You get the full record on the same data as everything else; you do not get the newer UI that proposal development has.