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CRO QUALITY BENCHMARKING – PHASE I SERVICE PROVIDERS (10TH EDITION)

JUNE, 2018

WORLDWIDE CLINICAL TRIALS COMPANY PERFORMANCE PROFILE, EXCERPT FROM CRO QUALITY BENCHMARKING - PHASE I SERVICE PROVIDERS, 10TH EDITION

2ISRreports.com ©2018 CRO Quality Benchmarking – Phase I Service Providers (10th edition)

Cue the streamers. Don the party hats. Break out the champagne.

That’s right, folks. We’ve been bringing you top notch CRO performance and selection data for an entire decade now. Welcome to the 10th edition of ISR’s CRO Quality Benchmarking - Phase I Service Providers report.

As ever, the goal of this report is to provide detailed information to aid in making informed decisions when outsourcing Phase I work. No doubt the CRO selection process is an onerous one; reviewing proposals, whittling providers down to a short list, and hearing bid defenses are time consuming and result in a lot of information to digest. And don’t even get us started on contract negotiations. This report aims to simplify the process of provider selection by offering insights into the selection process and service provider performance.

305 qualified Phase I decision-makers participated in our survey to share their insights on topics such as selection drivers, perceptions of providers, and how well provider performance stacked up against their expectations. 46 Phase I providers received performance evaluations on 22 attributes across five categories (Budget Factors, Delivery Factors, Staff Characteristics, Accessibility, and Services). Based on customer feedback, ISR has introduced the Services scorecard this year. Respondents who have recent experience using a CRO for Central lab, Biostatistics, Data management, and/or Monitoring services rate how well providers performed on those specific services. These metrics will be particularly useful to sponsors looking to outsource work functionally or needing a provider with stand-out capabilities in one of these areas.

This report is valuable for both sponsors and service providers. Sponsors – use this information to understand the drivers that industry peers feel are important when selecting Phase I CROs. Search for CROs that may be a good fit for your needs after understanding how they performed for others along the dimensions most critical to your projects. Providers – learn how sponsors select CROs in different decision-making scenarios so that you may tailor your proposals to appropriately trumpet the desired capabilities. Gain a better understanding of your strengths and weaknesses as seen through the eyes of your recent customers. See where other providers might hold competitive advantages and analyze service gaps that may need to be closed.

For sponsors and service providers alike, the information contained in this report is useful for making educated decisions regarding Phase I outsourced work. Let ISR’s ten years of experience in this arena do the legwork for you.

IN THIS EXCERPT: The content for this excerpt was taken directly from CRO Quality Benchmarking - Phase I Service Providers report, June 2018. All or parts of the following sections are included in this excerpt: ISR Introduction, Methodology, Participant Criteria, Service Provider Performance and Loyalty Primary Section Takeaways, Company Service Quality Profiles, Worldwide Clinical Trials Performance Summary, Performance Across Service Providers, and About ISR.

INTRODUCTION

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METHODOLOGY

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Respondents were required to pass several screening criteria to qualify and participate in this survey:

• Must work at a pharmaceutical company, biotech company, or medical device company

• Must have responsibility in at least one of several relevant areas. For example, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Executive Management, or Research and Development Management

• Must have involvement with outsourced Phase I trials within past 12 months

Consolidation is nothing new to the contract services industry, and a number of companies featured in this report have been part of recent M&A activity. At ISR we know that integration of a new acquisition can take a significant amount of time; as such, companies acquired within the past 18-24 months are still represented by the prior brand.

Participant Criteria



Service ProviderRespondent Ratings

Accelovance 3

Altasciences (Vince, Algorithme) 6

BioPharma Services Inc. 8

Bioskin 5

Biotrial 10

Celerion 26

CHDR 8

Chiltern 11

Clinical Research Services (CRS) 5

Clinlogix 4

Covance 94

DataCeutics 3

DaVita Clinical Research 12

DCRI-Duke 12

Eurofins 22

Eurotrials 3

Frontage 10

ICON 59

Inamed 3

INC Research 35

inVentiv Health Clinical 45

IQVIA/QuintilesIMS 85

Lambda 10

Service ProviderRespondent Ratings

Medpace 18

Medsource 4

NAMSA 5

Novotech 7

Nuvisan 10

Ora 5

PAREXEL 99

Pharm-Olam International 6

PPD 73

PRA 42

PRC Clinical 2

ProTrials 3

QPS 4

Quotient Clinical 19

Rho 5

SGS Life Sciences 12

Simbec 2

Spaulding Clinical 5

SynteractHCR 3

TKL Research 4

US Oncology 8

WCCT Global 13

Worldwide Clinical Trials 19

Total Ratings 847

Companies listed in bold print have been reviewed by 10 or more respondents. These providers have detailed company service quality profiles and are included in an in-depth performance analysis.

Number of Ratings Per Company



SERVICE PROVIDER PERFORMANCE AND LOYALTY




Primary Section Takeaways1. Top Performers:

• Overall: Worldwide Clinical Trials, Biotrial, SGS Life Sciences

• Budget Factors: Worldwide Clinical Trials, Nuvisan, Lambda

• Delivery Factors: Biotrial, Worldwide Clinical Trials, SGS Life Sciences, Celerion

• Staff Characteristics: Worldwide Clinical Trials, Biotrial, DCRI-Duke, SGS Life Sciences

• Accessibility: Biotrial, SGS Life Sciences, Worldwide Clinical Trials

• Services: Worldwide Clinical Trials, inVentiv Health Clinical, Celerion

2. Customer Loyalty:

• 2018 Top Performers: Worldwide Clinical Trials, Celerion, SGS Life Sciences, Biotrial

• 3-Year Rolling Average Top Performers: Worldwide Clinical Trials, SGS Life Sciences, Celerion, DaVita Clinical Research, Quotient Clinical




COMPANY SERVICE QUALITY PROFILES



Worldwide Clinical Trials(Base=19)

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Data management (n=12)

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Meeting overall project timelines

Clinic availability

Responsiveness

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Greatly exceeded my expectationsSomewhat exceeded my expectationsMet my expectationsSomewhat fell short of my expectationsGreatly fell short of my expectations

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Performance Across Service ProvidersThis “cross-CRO” chart has been developed as a way for pharma companies and CROs to quickly gauge how CROs perform against their peers on a specific performance attribute.

The metrics used in the following chart assign 3 points if respondents indicated the service provider greatly exceeded expectations, 1 point if they somewhat exceeded expectations, 0 points if they met expectations, -1 point if they somewhat missed expectations and -3 points if they greatly missed ex-pectations.

A service provider’s scores are included on this chart if 10 or more respondents evaluate its performance on that attribute. Numbers are colored green if the score is >0.25 and red if the score is <-0.25.



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0.42 0.07 0.42 0.06 0.20 -0.05 0.07 0.07 -0.07 0.50 -0.10


0.58 0.08 0.38 0.06 -0.30 0.00 0.20 0.10 0.12 -0.10 -0.10


0.42 -0.18 -0.15 -0.11 0.20 -0.14 0.18 -0.13 -0.20 0.20 0.10

Clinic availability 0.68 0.22 0.38 0.00 0.50 0.14 0.29 0.18 0.05 -0.10 -0.20

Cost 0.26 -0.25 0.19 -0.10 0.60 -0.29 0.24 -0.28 -0.22 -0.30 0.50

Data quality 0.47 0.18 0.35 0.11 0.10 0.02 0.31 0.06 0.10 0.30 0.00

Easy to work with 0.74 0.16 0.54 0.14 0.70 -0.05 0.31 0.04 0.20 0.30 0.00

Local market/ Regulatory knowledge

0.47 0.05 0.19 0.16 -0.10 0.19 0.20 0.02 0.03 0.10 0.20


0.79 0.04 0.46 0.00 0.40 -0.12 0.27 0.04 0.05 0.20 0.00

Operational excellence 0.74 0.12 0.46 0.10 0.10 0.02 0.20 0.05 -0.03 0.10 0.20


0.42 0.07 0.46 0.08 0.10 0.19 0.33 0.12 0.03 0.00 -0.20

Project manager quality 0.68 0.01 0.27 0.16 0.40 -0.14 0.47 0.04 0.08 0.40 0.30

Responsiveness 0.89 0.15 0.42 0.12 0.50 -0.02 0.38 0.13 0.17 0.20 -0.10

Scientific knowledge of the Phase I unit’s lead investigator

0.68 0.07 0.31 0.13 0.40 0.00 0.22 0.17 0.12 0.10 0.00

Staff turnover 0.58 -0.05 0.12 -0.15 0.00 0.07 0.22 -0.17 -0.14 0.20 0.10

Technology for real- time access to data

0.26 0.04 0.23 0.12 -0.20 0.10 0.36 0.05 0.02 0.10 0.30

Therapeutic expertise 0.58 0.18 0.27 0.09 -0.10 0.12 0.31 0.15 0.17 0.20 0.20


0.79 -0.03 0.23 0.03 0.40 -0.05 0.36 0.07 0.08 0.30 -0.10

Central lab 0.64 0.29 0.37 0.11 0.08 0.56 0.10 0.11

Biostatistics 1.00 0.17 0.26 0.02 0.14 0.44 -0.07 0.03

Data management 0.83 0.20 0.05 0.01 0.15 0.39 0.08 0.05

Monitoring 0.58 0.17 0.24 0.03 0.10 0.17 0.04 0.08

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Access to “unique” tests, machines, equipment

0.75 0.17 0.15 0.30 0.06 0.42 0.18 0.17 0.14 0.08 0.14


0.58 0.17 0.23 0.80 0.06 0.21 0.45 0.11 0.00 0.33 -0.06


0.08 -0.08 0.00 -0.10 -0.18 0.11 0.18 0.06 0.09 0.00 -0.23

Clinic availability 0.42 0.08 0.31 0.70 0.01 0.00 0.45 0.11 0.09 0.00 0.06

Cost 0.33 -0.08 -0.23 0.20 -0.13 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.23 -0.08 -0.09

Data quality 0.58 0.08 0.15 0.60 0.08 0.11 0.00 0.11 0.18 0.08 0.03

Easy to work with 0.33 -0.08 0.38 0.80 -0.01 0.63 0.09 0.00 0.41 0.33 0.40

Local market/ Regulatory knowledge

0.42 0.00 0.15 0.50 0.18 0.37 0.45 0.17 0.09 0.00 0.03


0.42 -0.08 0.00 0.80 -0.01 0.53 0.09 -0.06 0.18 0.33 0.11

Operational excellence 0.67 0.08 0.08 0.40 0.09 0.32 0.27 0.06 0.09 0.08 0.06


0.42 -0.42 0.23 0.70 0.08 0.26 0.27 0.06 0.05 0.17 0.14

Project manager quality 0.50 -0.33 -0.23 0.50 -0.01 0.58 0.36 -0.22 0.18 0.33 0.14

Responsiveness 0.50 0.08 0.23 0.60 0.13 0.47 0.18 0.22 0.18 0.50 0.11

Scientific knowledge of the Phase I unit’s lead investigator

0.17 0.25 -0.15 1.00 -0.05 0.05 0.00 0.22 0.36 0.50 0.14

Staff turnover 0.08 -0.17 0.15 0.40 -0.24 0.11 -0.18 0.06 0.05 0.33 -0.17

Technology for real- time access to data

0.58 -0.08 0.15 0.40 0.08 -0.21 0.09 0.17 0.00 -0.17 0.00

Therapeutic expertise 0.58 0.42 0.23 0.60 0.14 0.37 0.55 0.33 0.05 0.75 0.14


0.50 -0.25 0.08 1.00 0.01 0.47 0.09 0.22 0.09 0.33 0.09

Central lab -0.08 0.00 -0.07 0.22 0.25

Biostatistics -0.02 -0.08 0.00

Data management -0.02 -0.07 -0.10 -0.04

Monitoring 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.08

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