Evergreen Contract

Evergreen clauses keep a contract running continuously — often rolling over for successive fixed periods — which suits stable, ongoing services where re-tendering every cycle would waste effort. The convenience is real, but so is the risk: without active review, prices drift, terms date and better alternatives go untested because the contract simply renews on its own.

The practical control is a diarised notice period and a contract register that flags each renewal well before the deadline. That gives buyers a genuine choice — renegotiate, benchmark the market, or exit — rather than defaulting by inertia. Treating each auto-renewal as a decision point, not an administrative event, keeps evergreen arrangements competitive.