Many CROs currently offer two categories of services to sponsor companies preparing for an NDA or marketing application submission. The first category contains technical data standards services. These services include converting existing clinical datasets to CDISC compliant formats and generating the datasets for the integrated summary of safety (ISS) and integrated summary of efficacy (ISE). The second category includes regulatory and medical writing services associated with the marketing application submission.

This article discusses how to bridge the gap between the two for a successful marketing application submission.