01Project buying
Running the procurement stream of an industrial or energy project, working with technical teams and project delivery.
- Buying plan and timeline
- Commitment tracking
- Supplier interface
Procurement consulting firm
Procurement consultants for your projects, tenders and teams
Upbuy places procurement consultants with its clients: advisory assignments, embedded consultants or technical assistance, and interim management. We work on industrial and technical spend, for private companies and public buyers alike.
What we bring
Procurement support that fits into your teams
When a project starts, a role is vacant or a sensitive tender must be run, our consultants take on all or part of the buying process, using your rules, procedures and tools.
Hands-on consultants
Our consultants are practising buyers: they run tenders, negotiate and manage contracts alongside your teams.
Technical and commercial judgement
Bids are compared on substance: compliance with the specification, price structure, total cost, contractual terms and risk.
Public or private frameworks
We adapt the approach to your context: private purchasing, internal competition rules or regulated public procurement.
Services
What we take on
Every engagement is scoped with you: perimeter, deliverables, duration and model.
02Sourcing
Finding and qualifying suppliers to widen the panel or secure a spend category.
- Supply-market review
- Pre-selection criteria
- Qualification and onboarding
03Tenders
Preparing and running competitive processes, from the tender pack through to the award recommendation.
- Specification and evaluation grid
- Q&A and bidder exchanges
- Bid analysis report
04Negotiation
Preparing and leading negotiations on price, lead times, warranties and contractual clauses.
- Objectives and negotiating room
- Running the discussions
- Recording the agreements
05Price analysis
Breaking down prices and costs to challenge an offer, a price revision or a gap between suppliers.
- Cost breakdown
- Indexation formulas
- Offer comparison
06Category management
Structuring a spend category over time: spend analysis, strategy, panel and contracts.
- Spend analysis
- Tender roadmap
- Panel rationalisation
Engagement models
Four ways to work with us
The model depends on your need: a defined deliverable, longer-term support, a role to cover or a deadline to hit.
Fixed-fee advisory assignment
A defined scope, deliverables and timeline: procurement diagnostic, spend analysis, category strategy, price analysis.
Embedded consultant
A procurement consultant working inside your teams, full-time or part-time, under your day-to-day direction.
Interim management
A temporary appointment to cover an absent buyer or purchasing manager, absorb a peak of activity or stand up an organisation.
Tender support
Focused support on a competition: tender pack, bid analysis, negotiation and award report, through to signature.
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Expertise
Categories, methods and tools
Our consultants work on technically complex spend, where specification quality and cost control matter as much as the purchase price.
Spend categories
- Steel pipes and fittings, connectors, valves, hot taps
- Network intervention tooling
- Sheet-metal and reinforced plastic components
- Glazing and rail sub-assemblies
- Software and IT services
- R&D services and indirect spend
Methods
- RFI, RFQ, RFP and formal procedures
- Spend analysis, benchmarks, total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Cost breakdown, design-to-cost, indexation formulas
- Multi-year framework agreements, Incoterms, payment terms
- Service levels (SLA), KPIs, supplier reviews
- Supplier risk management and change management
Tools
- SAP, Coupa and Jaggaer, from sourcing to contract (S2C) and purchase to pay (P2P)
- Smartsheet for request and order management
- Workflow automation and procurement reporting
- Client-specific purchasing policies and procedures
Case studies
Examples of assignments
A few examples of assignments and experience from our consultants. For confidentiality, clients are not named.
A major energy player
Network materials contracts
- Categories
- Steel pipes and fittings, connectors, intervention tooling, hot taps, valves
- Contribution
- Running tenders, analysing bids, awarding and managing contracts, in line with the client's purchasing framework and competition rules.
An international pharmaceutical leader
Software category management
- Categories
- Software and related services
- Contribution
- End-to-end category ownership: tenders, multi-year frameworks, panel rationalisation, ESG requirements and digitalisation of request-to-order processes.
An international R&D services platform
Structuring R&D procurement
- Categories
- Research and development services for major pharmaceutical laboratories
- Contribution
- Multi-category spend analysis, alignment with stakeholders, prioritised tender roadmap and playbooks for buyers.
A global rail leader
Project buying for major rail programmes
- Categories
- Interior components: sheet metal, reinforced plastics
- Contribution
- Tenders and multi-year frameworks, negotiation backed by cost breakdowns, Incoterms and payment terms, design-to-cost, business reviews with strategic suppliers.
A rail manufacturer
Buying and sourcing for a regional train project
- Categories
- Glazing, project buying
- Contribution
- RFI, RFQ and RFP processes, sourcing and qualification of new suppliers meeting technical and quality requirements.
Public buyers
Formal procedures and public procurement
- Need
- Prepare and run competitions subject to public competition rules
- Contribution
- Procedure selection, tender pack, bid evaluation against explicit criteria, award report and contract follow-up.
Approach
A structured method, adapted to each case
The method stays the same from one assignment to the next; the level of detail depends on the stakes, the timeline and the rules that apply to your buying.
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Scoping
Understanding the need, technical constraints, timeline and internal rules. Choosing the engagement model and deliverables.
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Analysis
Reviewing the supply market, cost structure and risks. Selecting the strategy and procedure.
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Competition and negotiation
Launching the competition, evaluating bids against explicit criteria, then negotiating with shortlisted suppliers.
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Contracting and handover
Formalising commitments, a reasoned recommendation and a complete file handed over to your teams.
About
Upbuy, procurement consulting firm
Upbuy is a procurement consulting firm founded in 2026 and based in Anzin, near Valenciennes, in northern France.
We place procurement consultants with our clients on advisory assignments, as embedded support or technical assistance, and in interim management. We work in energy, rail, pharmaceuticals, industry and IT, for private companies and public buyers.
Our principle is simple: understand the real need, put suppliers in competition on clear grounds, negotiate on quantified elements and leave documented files behind.
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