EPC Procurement Lead

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula: Approach each client engagement as a partnership , create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards. We are seeking an experienced and commercially focused EPC Procurement Lead to lead EPC pre-qualification, tendering, bid evaluation, and procurement support activities for large-scale construction and mission-critical projects in Dubai, UAE. This client-facing role requires strong technical, commercial, procurement, and stakeholder management capabilities, with a focus on ensuring that EPC procurement activities are structured, competitive, compliant, and aligned with project objectives. The ideal candidate will have a background in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, or a related discipline, with proven experience leading EPC pre-qualification and bid evaluation for large-scale data center or comparable projects with significant capital expenditure. You will play a key role in supporting the successful procurement of EPC contractors and major project packages by managing pre-qualification processes, coordinating technical and commercial evaluations, supporting tender governance, and helping ensure the selection of capable, compliant, and commercially competitive bidders. 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 procurem…