Acknowledge receiving deliverables. Encourage your off shoring team by sending an e-mail a day telling them how important these contracts are. Make it interesting for them. They will never know the pain you went through working on a deal/negotiation and they will never know the inside story. I once got an e-mail from my client that I later shared with my team where she told me how she and her team didn't sleep for 3 days because they were trying to hammer out details of the liability clause of a particular agreement. She said that when they finally struck the deal, they were so pleased that she treated her staff to half a day off! Your vendor's team is not full of robots. They thrive on inspiration from their client as much as their project manager.