Local Content Service
We help your organization measure and document its local content contribution across products, services and operations, in a way that supports the national economy and improves your chances of winning government and private contracts that require specific local content thresholds.
What is the Local Content Service?
Our Local Content Service focuses on calculating the actual contribution of local elements in your activities – including materials, products, services, assets and workforce – and documenting it according to a clear methodology that aligns with the requirements of relevant authorities and contracting entities. This enables you to demonstrate your role in supporting the local economy and to strengthen your competitive position in tenders and bids.
Who is this service for?
- Companies working with government or semi-government entities that impose local content requirements in their contracts.
- Industrial organizations that want to highlight their dependence on local materials and services.
- Contracting, operations and maintenance, and technical service companies looking to improve their evaluation scores in tenders.
- Organizations seeking a clear policy and roadmap to gradually increase local content as part of their operating model.
Key features of the Local Content Service
Through our Local Content Service, your organization gains several practical advantages, including:
- Accurate local content measurement: Applying a structured methodology to quantify the contribution of local components in procurement, operations and workforce.
- Official local content documentation: Issuing a formal report or certificate that you can share with contracting entities and relevant authorities.
- Advisory on increasing local content: Providing actionable recommendations to enhance your reliance on local products and services over time.
- Periodic review and verification: Offering regular reviews to ensure ongoing alignment with your local content targets and to update figures when needed.
- Detailed management reports: Supplying management with clear reports that break down local content ratios by contract, category or major business line.
Service objectives
The Local Content Service is not limited to meeting the requirements of a single contract. It also supports your broader strategic goals by:
- Supporting the national economy: Increasing your reliance on local products and services within your supply chain.
- Enhancing your competitiveness: Improving your scoring in tenders and RFPs that give weight to local content ratios.
- Strengthening the supply chain: Building stronger relationships with local suppliers and reducing dependency on external sources.
- Contributing to sustainable development: Aligning with national priorities for localization, job creation and long-term economic resilience.
How our Local Content Service works
We follow a structured, transparent approach to measuring and improving local content in your organization:
- Understanding your business and target contracts: Reviewing your activities, key contracts and priority projects, as well as any specific local content requirements you need to meet.
- Data and document collection: Gathering information on procurement, suppliers, salaries, contracts and services, and categorizing items as local or non-local.
- Applying the measurement methodology: Using a clear and agreed calculation model to determine overall and detailed local content ratios.
- Reporting and documentation: Preparing a detailed report that presents your local content ratios, along with the ability to issue a formal document summarizing the results.
- Improvement roadmap: Providing recommendations to increase local content, such as adjusting sourcing strategies or reinforcing local hiring in specific areas.
- Optional periodic review: Agreeing on periodic review cycles to update data and ratios as your contracts, suppliers and internal policies evolve.
Why Rowad Al-Tasneef for Local Content?
- Understanding of contracting requirements: We are familiar with how local content is factored into evaluation and contract awards, and we translate those requirements into measurable indicators.
- Clear and transparent methodology: Our approach to data collection and analysis is documented and traceable, making it easier to explain to internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Alignment with your strategy: We ensure that local content recommendations support your growth and expansion plans rather than creating theoretical targets disconnected from operations.
- Focus on real added value: We view local content as a strategic advantage for competitiveness and supply chain strength, not just a checkbox in qualification forms.
Start organizing and increasing your local content
If your organization currently works with, or plans to work with, entities that require local content, or if you want to document your contribution to the national economy more clearly, a structured approach to local content measurement and improvement will give you a stronger position in negotiations and tenders.
Get in touch with us for an initial assessment of your current local content position and a practical set of next steps tailored to your objectives.
Request an initial assessment for Local Content