Decima International - EPC Procurement Lead
Requirements
• 12+ years of experience in EPC procurement, tender management, procurement management, commercial management, quantity surveying, contracts, or construction procurement within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects. • 12+ years • Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or a related field. • Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Construction Management • Proven experience leading EPC pre-qualification and bid evaluation processes. • EPC pre-qualification and bid evaluation • Experience leading EPC procurement activities for at least 2 data centers or comparable large-scale projects with CapEx exceeding USD 50M per site. • 2 data centers or comparable large-scale projects • CapEx exceeding USD 50M per site • Strong understanding of EPC procurement models, contractor pre-qualification, tendering procedures, bid evaluation, commercial analysis, and procurement governance. • Experience developing pre-qualification criteria, bidder evaluation matrices, scoring systems, bid comparison sheets, and recommendations for award documentation. • Strong ability to review technical and commercial submissions, pricing schedules, exclusions, assumptions, deviations, delivery plans, and contractor qualifications. • Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary stakeholders, including project management, engineering, cost, planning, legal, contracts, procurement, commercial, and client representatives. • Strong understanding of construction procurement, EPC contracting, contract risk allocation, scope definition, pricing structures, payment terms, variations, claims, and performance obligations. • Ability to identify procurement risks, bidder limitations, commercial gaps, scope omissions, pricing inconsistencies, and contractual exposure. • Strong communication, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills. • Excellent written and verbal English fluency. • Strong analytical and organizational skills with excellent attention to detail. • Ability to manage multiple procurement packages, deadlines, bidder communications, and stakeholder inputs in a fast-paced project environment. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. • Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale commercial building projects. • data center • Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, consultant, developer, client-side procurement, or major contractor environment. • Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region. • Strong knowledge of FIDIC-based contracts, EPC contract structures, tender governance, and commercial risk management. • Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial Management, or a related field. • Professional certifications or memberships such as CIPS, MRICS, RICS, PMP, AACE, or equivalent. • MRICS • Knowledge of regional EPC contractor markets, supplier capability, procurement routes, and UAE/GCC construction delivery models. • Experience using procurement, contract management, cost management, or document control platforms such as Aconex, Procore, Oracle Primavera Cloud, SAP, or similar systems. • Arabic language capability is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
• Lead EPC procurement activities, including contractor pre-qualification, tender planning, bid evaluation, clarification management, and award recommendation support. • Develop and manage pre-qualification strategies, evaluation criteria, bidder questionnaires, scoring matrices, and contractor assessment documentation. • Coordinate the evaluation of EPC contractors based on technical capability, financial strength, project experience, HSE performance, quality systems, delivery capacity, and commercial competitiveness. • Lead or support tendering activities for large-scale EPC packages, including tender documentation, bidder communications, clarification logs, addenda, and tender submission tracking. • Coordinate with project management, engineering, commercial, contracts, cost, planning, legal, and client stakeholders to ensure procurement requirements are clearly defined and properly evaluated. • Manage technical and commercial bid evaluation processes, ensuring alignment between evaluation teams and consistency across scoring, comments, clarifications, and recommendations. • Review EPC contractor submissions, including qualifications, assumptions, exclusions, pricing, schedules, delivery plans, procurement strategies, staffing plans, and risk registers. • Prepare bid comparison sheets, evaluation reports, recommendations for award documents, procurement trackers, and executive summaries for client and leadership review. • Lead clarification meetings, bidder interviews, commercial alignment discussions, and negotiation support sessions. • Identify procurement, commercial, technical, schedule, contractual, and delivery risks within pre-qualification and bid submissions. • Support risk mitigation strategies by working with contracts, legal, cost, and technical teams to address commercial exposure, scope gaps, pricing inconsistencies, and contractual deviations. • Ensure procurement activities are conducted in a fair, transparent, compliant, and properly documented manner. • Support the development and review of EPC procurement packages, scopes of work, pricing schedules, contract exhibits, and evaluation templates. • Coordinate with cost management teams to validate bid pricing, benchmark submissions, and support budget alignment. • Maintain accurate procurement records, pre-qualification files, bid evaluation documentation, approval records, correspondence, and decision logs. • Support procurement reporting, tender dashboards, bidder status updates, and procurement progress reviews. • Guide project teams on EPC procurement best practices, bidder evaluation, procurement governance, and commercial risk management. • Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
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