Salt Procurement Desk
Send the requirement. Receive the file. An ongoing purchasing function with your thresholds, your approval matrix and a record your auditor can read.
Supplier identification, quotations, purchasing coordination and complete procurement records.
The business problem
Local purchasing is where foreign operations lose both money and visibility. Prices are not tested, suppliers are not screened, and the paper trail is a messaging thread.
The problem is rarely dishonesty; it is the absence of a process. Without thresholds and a file, even entirely proper purchasing cannot be evidenced afterwards.
What is included
- A named buyer and one request channel
- Requirement definition and specification check
- Supplier shortlisting from a screened approved supplier list and the open market
- Minimum three written quotations above your agreed thresholds
- Technical and commercial comparison sheet with a written recommendation
- Purchase order issued in your name after your approval
- Delivery inspection against specification with a photographic record
- Invoice matched to order and delivery, with payment documentation prepared for you
- Monthly spend report by category, supplier and entity
- A complete audit file per purchase, retained for at least five years
Optional modules
- Tender and RFQ management for larger or strategic purchases
- Framework and call-off agreements at pre-agreed prices
- Supplier audits and site visits
- Spend review and price benchmarking of your current Iraqi purchasing
- Warehousing, inland delivery and stock records
- Asset tagging and register maintenance on delivery
- Project procurement thresholds for a mobilisation period
How the service is delivered
We agree your thresholds and approval matrix in writing before the first purchase, so nobody is deciding case by case what needs competition.
Every purchase follows the same route and produces the same file. Exceptions — single source, urgent, over-threshold — are documented and reported, not hidden.
You pay suppliers directly. Salt does not hold client funds and takes no commission, rebate or mark-up from any supplier.
Illustrative extract. Every purchase produces a record like this and appears in the monthly report.
What you receive
- A comparison sheet and a written recommendation for every purchase above threshold
- A purchase order in your name, issued only after you approve
- A photographic inspection record and a matched invoice
- A monthly spend report and an exception report
Who it is suitable for
- Multinationals whose internal audit cannot see Iraqi spend
- Embassies and organisations bound by their own procurement rules
- Projects buying at pace during mobilisation
- Companies that suspect they are paying above market
How to request a proposal
Tell us roughly what you buy in Iraq each month, and what your finance or audit function currently cannot see.
Where this touches legal work. Supply contract drafting and review, and any dispute with a supplier, sit with Salt & Associates. Salt Corporate Services does not buy and resell goods as principal and does not act as a commercial agent.
Common questions
Do you mark up what you buy?
Supplier costs pass through at cost, with the supplier's own invoice and official receipt kept on file, and the Salt fee stated separately. What you see is what it cost.
Can the desk work to our thresholds?
Yes, and it should. Your thresholds and approval matrix are agreed in writing at the start and applied consistently.
What if we need something today?
Urgent purchases skip the competition threshold, not the record. The exception is documented, approved by you, and appears on the monthly exception report.
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One specification, one delivery address, one date.
One Desk in Baghdad. Turnkey back-office infrastructure.
Salt Corporate Services runs all ten areas below — 33 services and 15 configured products, under one account lead, one request channel and one monthly report. Most clients start with one area and add the rest as the operation grows.