Procurement and supply-chain

Efficient procurement and supply chain solutions for global projects

Our approach is built on:

• Deep subject matter knowledge of your business, your assets, projects and programmes, and the big picture for the sector you’re in.
• Breadth and depth of practice – our multidisciplinary, multisectoral expertise provides transferable knowledge and solutions, injects new thinking and promotes innovation.
• Whole lifecycle capability – we put together a bespoke team with the right skills mix for you and your project needs, from new development to asset end of life. 

This enables you to:

Manage your inflation and supply bottlenecks

Combining technical and wide market knowledge with focused market research, we understand your project or programme and its local, national and global context. We reveal the availability of key supplier competencies and capacity, and of project critical equipment and materials – from heavy lift cranes and dredgers to steel sections and microchips. This supports development of your procurement strategy, by talking to suppliers of hard-to-get products and services about increasing production, prepurchasing, and scheduling of work.

Attract high performing contractors and suppliers

Demonstrating your project pipeline’s potential work and revenue, and the opportunity to improve supply chain profitability through learning, better working practices and innovation, we ensure you stand out to in-demand contractors and suppliers. We help build better partnerships and working relationships, with value and influence. 

Early contractor involvement can give suppliers important insight into and influence on workload, and reveals to you what is technically and commercially attractive to suppliers. Contractor alliances can be encouraged to achieve the required capability and capacity for them to bid and win. 

Use higher performing, responsive delivery models

We can design commercial arrangements to set target outputs and outcomes without specifying inputs, empowering contractors and suppliers to play to their strengths and innovate. This equitably shares risk and reward. 

Engage stakeholders to maximise value 

We ensure your prequalification questionnaires and invitations to tender reflect what’s important to you. We take input from your internal stakeholders on the needs of your different functions, as well as engaging regulators, community and special interest groups, investors and suppliers to identify key considerations. We help you weight each requirement, embed it in procurement processes, score bidders’ responses and monitor performance.

Support corporate sustainability goals

Procurement is essential to meeting sustainability commitments, as a substantial proportion of your organisation’s material impacts – climate, environmental and social – arise within your supply chain. We bring our integrated leadership, from co-authoring the international specification for managing built environment carbon emissions, PAS 2080, to pioneering the planning, delivery and management of social value in infrastructure.