PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY SERVICES
Our Supply Chain Department is crucial to our operational excellence and integral to our EPC approach. We strive to add value to our clients and projects by centering our supply chain partners in our success and offering exceptional procurement and supply chain services. Our multidisciplinary team delivers top-tier solutions across all aspects of the supply chain, from sourcing and delivery to market analysis and contract management, supporting our diverse business portfolio. Our extensive experience has resulted in a broad network of suppliers, service providers, and subcontractors, each rigorously vetted before selection and continually reviewed post-award. Our Procurement and Supply Chain Department focuses on ensuring the sustainability of each project’s supply chain by determining the best combination of local and international sources.
A) Procurement of Materials:
Our Supply Chain Division oversees all procurement of materials and services for EC through a dedicated team of experts. Acting as a genuine business partner, we are committed to consistently delivering high-quality goods and services. We prioritize:
- Protecting both client and EC interests.
- Utilizing data and process-driven approaches.
- Adhering to our commitments.
- Focusing on safe and sustainable practices.
- Maintaining ethical, fair, and respectful relations with suppliers.
- Being proactive, collaborative, inclusive, and responsive.
- Building long-term, strategic relationships with key suppliers.
B) Supply of Manpower:
- Technical office engineers specialized in shop drawings and operations planning.
- Field engineers specialized in running all types of projects such as: piping, steel structures, tanks, electrical and civil operations.
- QC engineers for inspections and tests.
- Supervisors and foremen to handle workforce during all stages of the project.
- Skilled mechanics and technical workers as pipe fitters, tank fitters, offshore crews, welders for all positions, grinders, and helpers.
- Skilled electrical technicians specialized in electrical installations, testing and commissioning.
- Skilled sandblasting and painting crew to handle onshore and offshore operations above sea level and within splash zones.
- Certified scaffolding supervisors, inspectors, and scaffolders (CITB or equivalent).
- Professional diving supervisors, commercial divers…etc. for all diving and underwater operations.
- Others.
C) Supply of Equipment:
- Heavy Equipment such as cranes, forklifts, manlifts with multi loading capacities.
- Welding machines (diesel / electrical) in compliance with SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, and FCAW welding processes.
- Generators with different voltage ranges.
- Special tools such as manual, automatic, hot, and cold cutting tools for pipes and plates with different sizes and thicknesses, as well as lifting Gears.
- Sandblasting and painting equipment (air compressors, sand pots, airless spraying machines, high pressure hoses …etc.).
- Diving equipment for scuba diving and surface supply diving including oxygen cylinders, air compressors, Kirby helmets, umbilical, CCTV units, Recorders, Decompression chambers (DCC), Zodiacs…etc.
- Underwater cutting and inspection tools.
- Others.
D) Supply of Scaffolding:
- El-Kholy Contractors (EC) provides all required materials, tools, consumables, and manpower to erect, inspect, and certify scaffolding services.
- Our certified scaffold inspectors and our certified scaffold crew members meet the experience and qualification requirements according to BS-EN 12811-1 competency requirements.
- EC carries out scaffolding erection procedures following BS-EN 12811-1 requirements and TG 20:13 guidance. Couplers, spigot pins and accessories comply with BS-EN 74-1, 74-2, and 74-3 wherever applicable and with strict adherence to client’s “permit to work” procedures as well as their HSE procedures including the use of fall protection devices such as fall arresters according to BS-EN 363.
- Normal dust/wind covers, water proof covers, as well as fire proof covers are used during scaffolding process.
- EC applies SCAFTAG system with color coding.