Quanticate was selected as one of two partners for the global support of Biostatistics services and Statistical Programming, providing a low cost solution which would lead to improved data quality, and ensure appropriate data analysis and, therefore, robust submissions to regulatory bodies.
To achieve these outcomes the following solution was delivered:
- Rapid staff deployment: within 12 months of contract agreement, Quanticate allocated 75 staff to this sponsor’s studies, and continued to increase until the identified ‘steady state’ of 90 was reached.
- Dedicated teams: Quanticate teams supported the sponsor’s teams in both Europe and the United States for both individual statistical programming study level support and higher-level overarching programme statistical consultancy.
- Low-cost resource: Quanticate initially supplied resources from the UK, US and South Africa due to the clients reluctance to use more than 20% resource in low-cost regions, but as the relationship grow and trust was developed due to the high quality of work, the Sponsor’s asked the gradual introduction of resources from India. Gradually, Quanticate provided a significant proportion of resource in a low-cost area (India), which reached 50% at ‘steady state.’ This entailed a measured and controlled ramp-up of our India team, without compromising on quality at any stage. The structure of the team was set up to ensure project leads and oversight across studies comes from highly experienced UK, US, Polish or South African Project Delivery Managers (PDMs) and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) but also allowed for Indian resource to lead studies as they gained experience and developed. Due to the high level of support provided by Quanticate, the sponsor actively supported an increase in the proportion of India team members.
- Project planning: by agreeing a lead-in time for project resourcing and dynamic project forecasting, Quanticate has been able to provide ring-fenced resource to supplement teams over the long and short term.
- Flexible pricing model: initially, Quanticate staff worked on sponsor systems utilising an hourly rate card with a capped project base. As the partnership matured and a better understanding of sponsor systems was gained, a fixed unit price will be agreed.
- Identification of cross-study redundancy: the degree of standardisation across studies allocated to Quanticate (e.g. standardised datasets, mock-ups, and shells) was assessed to allow for efficiency in programming and statistical modelling.
- UK Specialised team: Quanticate also had a UK only resource team available as and when required by the client for specialist matters and to support specific therapeutic areas.
