Procurement Strategy

Procurement Strategy is the consultancy work that happens before contract signature. Tender structure, supplier evaluation, contract terms. Project Management & Delivery is the operational work that happens after signature: Arc managing the project as the owner's appointed party, governing the contractor on the ground. The two services connect, but they are engaged independently because the buyer can engage one without the other.

Arc will assess that contractor as part of a competitive process and write the evaluation against the same criteria as any other bidder. If the preferred contractor wins on the published criteria, they win. If they do not, the recommendation says so. The fee buys an honest answer, not a confirmation of a pre-existing decision.

Six to twelve weeks from initial scoping to signed contract for a standard EPC procurement. Longer for portfolio programmes where multiple sites are tendered together or where contract negotiations are complex.

Yes. The legal team owns the contract document and the legal review. Arc owns the commercial and technical evaluation and the procurement governance. The two functions are different and both are needed; we do not displace the legal function.