Public procurement: the procedures we are eligible for.
Public procurement has its own eligibility regime, its own calendar and its own way of being reviewed after the fact. This page answers it directly, including the parts where the answer is no.
How a ministry buys, and the first question you should expect from us
Each ministry runs its technology against its own information-system master plan — its own period, its own programs, its own budget envelope. So our first question is not what we can do. It is which period of yours you are in, and which program this request sits under. The answer sets the timeline, the budget line and the procedure that applies, before any capability is discussed.
We deliver against your mandate. We do not set it.
The programme, its objectives and the public value it has to produce are yours and stay yours. What we bring is delivery discipline against them: a scope fixed in writing, acceptance criteria agreed before the work, and an end you can see from the start. A first engagement is deliberately small, so the first decision is small too.
We start from what exists, not from what should have been built
The most common failure in this market is not a project that does not work. It is a project that works and duplicates one already running in another directorate. So the first question is always what is already deployed, what it already does, and what it exposes — before anything new is proposed.
- What the existing platforms already hold, and which of them is authoritative
- Which exchanges already exist between them, and which are manual re-entry
- What has to be interoperable with what, and under whose standard
Governance, and who is accountable for what
One named engagement lead, on our side, for the duration. Work locations declared. Every subcontractor named before access, with the scope they touch, and refusable by you without a reason. Decisions dated and attributed as they are taken, not reconstructed afterwards.
What the administration owns and operates afterwards
The artefacts are yours as they are produced — the code, the automated test suites, the acceptance reference, the traceability matrix, the acceptance record. Your engineers learn the methods and the reasoning while the work is happening, not from a document handed over at the end. Where support continues afterwards it is a separate, scoped engagement, and it is not a condition of the first one.
A file that survives a review
A procedure can be challenged, suspended or restarted months after award, by someone who was never in the room. What survives that is a file that reconstructs the decision without anyone present to explain it: criteria recorded before the work, acceptance declared against those criteria, decisions dated, authors named. That is how this engagement is run regardless of who is asking.
What we can bid for
- Work that a non-resident supplier may contract and deliver directly.
- A sub-contracted scope under a prime who approaches us.
- Bounded assessments.
Eligibility, stated before you ask
There is no locally registered entity, no permanent office and no workforce under contract on the continent. Where a procurement requires local registration, a tax clearance certificate or in-country past performance, we bid as a consortium: the partner is selected for that procurement, named in the bid, and the split of work is set out explicitly in the contract.
We never present an informal relationship as a constituted consortium.
The contracting entity is Onshore Technology Services, Inc. Its United States federal registrations — SAM, CAGE, UEI — are verifiable by your procurement office on public registers, without asking us.
We hold no in-market references, and a parent-company engagement will never be presented as one.
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What we do not bid on
- Procedures requiring three in-country references. We do not have them, and we will not substitute the parent’s.
- Procedures where local registration must already be held at submission and no consortium is admitted.
- Anything requiring us to certify or to issue an attestation of conformity. That sits with accredited bodies, and we work alongside yours.
- Anything requiring a security operations centre on the continent. The security operations function belongs to the Onshore group and runs from the United States.
Send us the procurement notice and we will tell you whether we are eligible before you spend time on it. A person reads every message and replies.