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Energy sector procurement is formal, documented and standards-driven. Suppliers who present their accreditations clearly avoid a great deal of back and forth, and frequently avoid being excluded before anyone speaks to them.
The website's job here is to get you through pre-qualification, not to persuade.
- Oil, gas and energy
- Offshore renewables
- Engineering
- Professional services
- Trades
Selling to Aberdeen
Worth knowing hereEnergy sector procurement is formal and standards-driven, and suppliers who present accreditations clearly avoid a great deal of back and forth.
Pre-qualification happens before contact
Somebody assembling a bidder list is checking certifications, safety statistics, insurances, financial standing and relevant experience. Anything they cannot find, they assume you do not have.
Publishing all of it in one place — with scope, dates and issuing bodies — makes you easy to include and saves the exchange of emails that otherwise follows.
Keeping it current matters as much. An expired certificate visible on the site raises a question nobody wants to answer.
Offshore experience is the differentiator
Offshore and subsea work has requirements that onshore experience does not cover, and buyers look specifically for evidence of it.
Naming the environments, water depths, standards and types of installation you have worked on separates you from suppliers hoping to transfer across.
Renewables and two universities
The shift towards offshore renewables brings buyers with similar formality and different technical requirements, alongside a substantial student economy.
Questions people here ask
- What should a supplier publish?
- Certifications with scope and dates, safety statistics, insurances and relevant experience, all in one findable place.
- Why does currency matter?
- Because an expired certificate on the site is worse than none. It suggests nothing published is maintained.
- Is offshore experience worth detailing?
- Yes. Buyers look for it specifically, and naming environments, depths and standards separates you from onshore firms transferring across.
Sites we have built
Live, working businesses. Visit them and judge the standard yourself.
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One message is enough to start. I’ll read it and reply myself, usually with a couple of questions and a clear price.
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