Collaborate with ETC
ETC Collaboration Process
The Enabling Technologies Consortium (ETC) was founded by the pharmaceutical industry to collaborate with third parties from the vendor and academic communities to develop or improve upon pre-competitive enabling technologies for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. ETC’s main mechanism to seek out collaborations is through an open RFI/RFP process based upon the interests of the ETC® Working Groups. The general steps for our process is summarized in the graphic below.
Project Team Formed / Consensus Requirements Defined
Solicit Proposals/ Choose Collaborator
Scoping & Finalize SOW
Execute Single Agreement w / 3rd Party
Project Completed
- Working groups and Projects Teams comprised of experts from the pharmaceutical industry meet and share experience
- Common needs and gaps are identified
- Brainstorming to define desired capabilities
- Vet these with the group to define consensus requirements
- Public solicitation (via RFI or RFP) for solutions to address the needs of ETC members
- Review and rank proposals, interviewing strongest candidates
- Select collaborator to move forward with
- Work with collaborator to finalize the scope of the project
- Collaborator drafts SOW outlining project deliverables, milestones, timeline, and cost
- Interested Consortium members review and execute internal project charter
- Collaboration begins to develop new technology.
- Collaboration begins to develop new technology
- Presentations at conferences
- Publications
- Commercialization of project output
- Additional project phases considered
Idea Submission
ETC welcomes the community to suggest new collaborative projects for technologies at any stage of the development process. If you have a project idea you would like to work with ETC on, please fill out the form below.
Do not submit any confidential or sensitive information via this form. While ETC does not intend to publicly disseminate your submission, your submission will be shared with staff and ETC members. Neither ETC nor its members makes any commitment of confidentiality to you in connection with submissions at this time.
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$340+
Participants
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Collaborators
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Collaborators
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RFI/RFPs
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RFI/RFPs
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Companies
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Companies
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Groups
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