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Use this strategy before procurement packages and sourcing routes become fixed, when the project must choose how to obtain required works, goods, or services within its market, delivery, capability, and risk constraints.
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Procurement Strategy
Explain and support the proposed sourcing and contracting approach for project packages.
How to use this templateThis Word template contains prepared headings, tables, project fields and completion notes. Add your information, review the completed document and remove the notes before issue.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
It connects commercial packaging with technical interfaces and delivery priorities, allowing the project to compare sourcing and contracting options before tender documents or market commitments lock in an unsuitable approach.
How to complete it
- Define Procurement objectives and constraints, then assess Packaging and market options using the project's scope interfaces, delivery needs, and available evidence of supplier capability.
- Compare Sourcing and contracting options and document Recommended strategy and rationale, explaining how the preferred approach addresses identified constraints and realistic alternatives for delivery.
- Record Implementation decisions and Risks and review triggers so package owners know which approvals, market checks, and changing conditions could alter the selected strategy.
Who prepares and reviews it
A procurement or commercial lead normally prepares it with engineering, construction, planning, cost, and operations contributors. Project leadership approves strategic choices, while procurement and legal authorities review requirements relevant to the actual organization and contract route.
A mistake to avoid
Choosing a procurement route solely because it appears cheaper can overlook interface risk, market capability, long-lead dependencies, and the owner's capacity to manage multiple packages.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a water plant must decide whether to buy treatment equipment separately or through an integrated package. The strategy compares interface responsibility, supplier availability, lead times, and owner capability. Leadership selects an integrated package for critical process systems while retaining separately defined civil works.
Document contents
- Procurement objectives and constraints
- Packaging and market options
- Sourcing and contracting options
- Recommended strategy and rationale
- Implementation decisions
- Risks and review triggers
Required inputs
- Project name, location, company, document number and revision
- Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles
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