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Procurement & SourcingSupply Chain ManagementLogistics, Freight & MaritimeResearch, Evidence & EvaluationStrategy, Governance & Institutional AdvisoryFinancial & Transaction AdvisoryEnvironment, Safety & ComplianceICT & DigitalHuman CapitalLegal & Regulatory
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Ten practices. One accountable firm.

From writing a technically defensible specification to clearing the cargo it produced. From designing a results framework to independently verifying what it reported.

Expertise

Engage a single practice, or the chain that runs through several.

Each practice is a complete capability in its own right, with its own specialists and its own standards. Most substantial engagements draw on three or four of them, and one partner remains accountable for the whole of it.

01

Procurement & Sourcing

We write the specification, run the tender, screen the supplier and inspect the goods before they load. Where an institution wants the capability rather than the service, we rebuild the manuals, thresholds and delegations instead.

Strategic sourcingTender and bid managementSupplier due diligencePre-shipment inspectionFramework agreementsProcurement reformCategory management
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02

Supply Chain Management

We quantify demand into figures a funder will accept, site warehouses against real corridor behaviour, and build the pipeline visibility that turns a stock-out into a decision taken weeks earlier.

Network modellingDemand quantificationPipeline monitoringWarehouse systemsRisk assessmentLast-mile deliveryPerformance diagnostics
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03

Logistics, Freight & Maritime

Sea, air and multimodal freight, customs clearance and duty exemption, port agency and stevedoring, and the movements that need engineering before they need a booking: heavy lift, break bulk and project cargo.

Freight forwardingCustoms clearanceProject cargo engineeringCharteringTrade compliancePort agencyCargo insurance
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04

Research, Evidence & Evaluation

MEAL system design, statistically powered surveys and evaluations against OECD-DAC criteria. Third-party monitoring and independent verification run on separate staffing, because the value of that work is entirely its independence.

MEAL system designBaseline and endline surveysIndependent evaluationThird-party monitoringData quality auditsMarket systems analysisReal-time learning
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05

Strategy, Governance & Institutional Advisory

Capacity diagnostics, public financial management, governance reform and programme design, followed through into the budget lines, delegations and internal controls that decide whether a strategy can actually be executed.

Organisational strategyCapacity diagnosticsPublic financial managementGovernance reformProgramme designDonor complianceInternal control design
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06

Financial & Transaction Advisory

Feasibility studies, financial models, value-for-money analysis and due diligence, built with the sensitivities and documentation that let a conclusion survive an audit or an investment committee.

Feasibility studiesFinancial modellingValue-for-money analysisDue diligenceForensic and audit supportTransfer pricingFund management
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07

Environment, Safety & Compliance

Impact assessment and the management plans that follow from it, climate and carbon exposure, and the health and safety, ISO, safeguarding and data protection systems that make a stated commitment verifiable.

Impact assessmentManagement plansClimate and carbonHSE systemsISO certification readinessSafeguarding frameworksData protection
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08

ICT & Digital

Enterprise architecture, ERP and procurement platform implementation, digital data collection built with validation at the point of entry, and the analytics layer that turns what was collected into something a manager can act on.

Enterprise architectureERP and procurement platformsCustom developmentDigital data collectionAnalytics and dashboardsGIS and spatial analysisCybersecurity
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09

Human Capital

Executive search for the scarce technical roles, the organisational design and grading that make those roles retainable, and the training, Training-of-Trainers and certification programmes that leave the capability behind.

Executive searchOrganisational designPay benchmarkingHR systemsCurriculum designTraining-of-TrainersProfessional certification
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10

Legal & Regulatory

Contract drafting and negotiation written against the corridor, the border and the inspection regime the agreement will actually meet, plus corporate structuring and licensing, and support once a dispute is already live.

Contract draftingNegotiationCorporate structuringLicensingRegulatory advisoryDispute and arbitration supportIntellectual property
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Not sure which practice you need?

Describe the outcome and the constraint. We will tell you which of these it actually is, and if it is more than one, who leads.

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