Procurement Services

Led by an industry certified Purchasing Manager, our Project Procurement Team (PPT) will provide a complete package of supply-chain management tools and services, fully conforming to our client’s policies, procedures and approval matrix requirements. Project confidentiality will be maintained at all times and all services rendered will be in strict compliance with our client’s business conduct and ethics practice and other corporate policies. Due diligence will be practiced throughout the project to ensure all Procurement functions strictly adhere to federal, state and local rules and regulations. In addition, the project team will perform all rendered services using standard MEI procedures, which incorporate best practices recommended by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

Procurement services typically include sourcing of all project materials and services as requested, assisting project engineers with material specifications and descriptions, conducting supplier pre-qualification audits and assessments, exploring value-added alternate materials and/or services solutions, preparing Request for Quote (RFQ) packages for client approval, receiving and reviewing tendered bid packages for compliance with bid requirements, preparing detailed commercial and technical bid analysis and making recommendations for client review and approval, negotiating best terms with lead bidders, drafting purchase orders, commercial terms and conditions (T&Cs), purchase order T&Cs, and project-specific T&Cs for client approval, issuing purchase orders per client’s instruction, expediting return of signed acknowledgments, setting up and monitoring inspections and inspection hold-points, managing the total transportation and logistics function to ensure timely delivery of all materials per specification, and auditing supplier invoices for conformance to the purchase orders and/or contracts. The PPT will perform other materials management tasks as requested by our client.

Our Project Procurement Team will interface with our client’s CMP system for approved vendor / manufacturer lists (AVL), RFQ tracking and status reports, purchase order logs and status reports, forward cash accrual and forecasting spreadsheets, vendor performance reports, inspection setup and completion reports, shipping and logistics tracking reports, material receiving reports, and other project procurement reports as required.