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Quality Management Workshops
Avoca provides orientations, workshop sessions, and consulting services to provide your organization
and teams the opportunity to leverage Consortium tools to help achieve your unique objectives.
Packages are outlined below. For further information, please contact
Danya.burakoff@theavocagroup.com.
Basic Orientation on Implementation of Avoca’s Quality Consortium Clinical Quality
Oversight Best Practice Guidelines, Tools and Templates
Audience: Avoca Quality Consortium Members’ Clinical Outsourcing and Quality Teams
This 4-hour orientation will guide and demonstrate to your team how to access and utilize specific
best practice tools through the AQC Member web portal. Case studies will be provided and
participants will engage in interactive exercises to ensure solid understanding and ease of use of the
Consortium tools housed on the web portal. Each on-site session can accommodate
up to 30 people.
Cost: $4,500 plus out of pocket fees.
Customized Workshop on Implementation of a Robust Quality Management System
Audience: Avoca Quality Consortium Members’ Clinical Outsourcing and Quality Teams: This could include a joint workshop
with your strategic partners
Avoca senior consultants will conduct interviews with key stakeholders within your company, to
identify unique organizational needs for quality oversight. The workshop will be customized to meet
those needs. This interactive 6-hour workshop will support your organization’s efforts to utilize the
Quality Oversight framework of best practice guidelines, tools, and templates along with company-
specific tools and processes in order to enhance quality oversight within your organization’s
outsourcing model. Avoca will integrate its consulting services into this workshop and recommend
the specific set of tools that would be most beneficial to your organization or function based on your
objectives and challenges. We offer the option to incorporate a basic orientation to Avoca’s Clinical
Quality Agreement template.
Preliminary Cost: $9,500 plus out of pocket expenses.
*Final costs to be provided after a discussion confirming assumptions and scope of work.

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Workshop on Implementation and Utilization of The Avoca Quality Consortium’s
Clinical Quality Agreement Template
Audience: Avoca Quality Consortium Members and Non-Members
Developed by the Avoca Quality Consortium, The Quality Agreement template is a modularized
best-practice set of documents that may be used by companies and their sourcing business
partners to develop a tailored, agreed upon set of expectations for the quality of deliverables.
This interactive 6-hour workshop will support your organization’s efforts to implement the Consortium
Quality Agreement in the context of training focused on best practices in managing relationships
with CROs and alliance partners. This workshop is based on The Avoca Group’s Art and Science of
Partnering™ framework, and also includes a presentation of Avoca’s industry data and Consortium
assessment results. Interactive exercises and games will be incorporated to ensure a thorough
understanding of the Quality Agreement. For Consortium Members, we offer an option to add a
basic orientation to the Member web portal of quality oversight tools.
Preliminary Cost: $8,500 for Members; $15,000 for Non-Members, plus out of pocket expenses.
*Final costs to be provided after a discussion confirming assumptions and scope of work.
ABOUT THE AVOCA GROUP
Avoca is a leading integrated research and consulting firm focused on clinical
outsourcing in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in relationship management,
research, training, and the development of solutions to tackle the challenges of
managing quality in outsourced clinical trials.
Click here to learn more about the Avoca Group’s Solutions and Services (The Avoca
Group’s Integrated Consulting and Research).
ABOUT THE AVOCA QUALITY CONSORTIUM
Click here to learn more about The Avoca Quality Consortium - an industry leading
consortium led by the Avoca Group that brings together quality, outsourcing and
operational professionals from pharma, biotech and CRO, and clinical service provider
member organizations to accelerate the development of best practices and industry
standards for proactive quality management in outsourced clinical research.
*To inquire about membership to Avoca’s Quality Consortium, please contact
Danya.Burakoff@theavocagroup.com