From procurement strategy to supply chain intelligence, we provide the specialist expertise that Owner organizations need to navigate the complexity of major capital investment — and bring their projects in on time, on budget, and with the right supply chain behind them.
Great Project Solutions is a boutique project management consultancy. We work exclusively with Owners — the organizations funding and directing the delivery of major capital investment — providing the specialist advisory capability they need to make better procurement decisions, build stronger supply chains, and manage the contracts that hold complex projects together.
Our founding principleThe best procurement decisions are made by people who understand the market they are buying into. Every engagement we undertake is grounded in live intelligence about who is building, what they are building, and when demand will peak.
Major capital projects fail — or overrun significantly — when Owner organizations do not have the right procurement and supply chain capability in place at the right time. The market for engineering, procurement, and construction services is complex, cyclical, and increasingly global. Understanding it requires specialist knowledge that most Owner organizations do not carry internally.
"We bridge the gap between the Owner's ambition and the market's capacity to deliver it."
We work at the intersection of procurement strategy, contract management, and market intelligence. Our clients are Owners in capital-intensive industries who are planning, authorizing, or delivering significant construction programs. They come to us when they need to understand the supply chain landscape before they go to market, when they need to structure procurement to maximize competition and manage risk, or when they need experienced hands to run complex contract processes.
Underpinning everything we do is OPUS — our proprietary project intelligence database tracking over 398 active megaprojects worldwide, representing over $2.26 trillion in total installed cost. OPUS gives us — and through us, our clients — a live, project-by-project picture of market demand that no public data source can match.
Our work spans the full lifecycle of major project procurement — from the earliest market assessment through to contract award and supply chain management during delivery.
We help Owners define how they go to market — selecting the right contracting model, packaging scope intelligently, and sequencing procurement to maximize competition and minimize risk. Strategy is grounded in market intelligence, not theory.
We provide experienced contract management support across NEC, FIDIC, and bespoke Owner frameworks — covering contract strategy, risk allocation, change management, and claims avoidance. Good contract management begins at award, not at dispute.
Drawing on OPUS — our proprietary database of 399 global megaprojects — we map the available supply chain for any project, quantify sector demand, identify contractor capacity and concentration risks, and produce actionable intelligence reports used by Owners, contractors, and investors to inform capital allocation decisions.
We design and manage prequalification processes that surface the right contractors for each package — assessing financial standing, technical capability, capacity, and supply chain health. Rigorous prequalification reduces procurement risk and strengthens the quality of the competition.
We manage the full tender process — from RFP development and commercial evaluation criteria through to bid analysis, clarification management, and recommendation to award. Our evaluations are rigorous, defensible, and designed to select the contractor best positioned to deliver.
We advise Owners on how to structure risk allocation across their project — identifying where risk is best held by the Owner, where it should transfer to the contractor, and how to price and manage residual exposure. We help clients avoid the commercial structures that lead to disputes.
For major programmes, we embed experienced advisors within the Owner's team — providing continuity of procurement leadership across the project lifecycle. This model works particularly well for Owner organizations building major delivery capability for the first time.
We lead the development of Engineering and Construction Scopes of Work for Basic Design/FEED and full EPC execution — translating technical requirements from engineering, project management, and construction teams into clear, detailed packages. This enables targeted commercial models, performance-linked contractual mechanisms, and a shared understanding between Owner and contractor from the outset.
We use our domain knowledge to bridge the Owner's technical teams and the supply chain — advising on how to package scopes to reach the right market segment and reduce commercial risk. For long lead equipment, we ensure engineering and manufacturing requirements are clearly set out in contracts and purchase orders, and we manage the expediting of engineering documents and manufacturer delivery to keep the overall project design and schedule on track.
We track and advise across the full range of capital-intensive sectors that drive the global megaproject pipeline. Our OPUS database covers over 20 sector classifications, giving us — and our clients — genuine cross-sector visibility of market demand and supply chain dynamics.
We are a small, senior team. Every engagement is led by an experienced practitioner — not handed to a junior team once the contract is signed. Our work is direct, evidence-based, and grounded in market reality.
Before advising on procurement strategy, we establish a clear, data-driven picture of the supply chain landscape — using OPUS to map who is building, what they are building, and where capacity is concentrated or constrained. Most procurement problems begin with a misread of the market.
We work with the Owner to define the procurement approach that is right for this project, in this market, at this point in time — selecting the contracting model, structuring packages, allocating risk, and sequencing procurement to generate genuine competition and protect the program.
We manage the process from prequalification through tender and evaluation to contract award — ensuring that every step is conducted rigorously, that decisions are defensible, and that the Owner selects the contractor best placed to deliver. We stay engaged through delivery to manage contract performance.
OPUS gives us a live picture of the global megaproject pipeline that no public dataset matches. When we assess a market, we are drawing on project-level data — TIC, phase, sector, contractor — not aggregated industry surveys or analyst estimates.
Our team consists of experienced practitioners who have led procurement on major capital projects. We do not use our clients' projects as training grounds. Every engagement is led by someone who has done this work before, at scale, under real delivery pressure.
We work exclusively for Owners. We do not advise contractors, investors, or lenders. This single-minded focus means our advice is never compromised by a commercial relationship on the other side of the table — and Owners can rely on our independence completely.
Our primary focus is North America and Europe — the two markets where the majority of our clients are investing and where our OPUS coverage is deepest. We understand the contractor landscapes, procurement norms, and supply chain dynamics in both markets, and we bring cross-Atlantic perspective to clients operating in either or both.
Our recommendations are grounded in data. Whether we are advising on the timing of a procurement exercise or the structure of a risk allocation, we draw on quantitative analysis of market demand, contractor capacity, and historical project performance — not intuition alone.
OPUS is a living database — updated continuously as projects are announced, progress through phases, or change hands. Our clients always receive advice based on the current state of the market, not data that was current six months ago.
We bring genuine engineering and construction domain knowledge to every engagement — not just commercial advisory. This allows us to lead Scope of Work development alongside Owner technical teams, translate requirements into procurable packages, and bridge the gap between engineering and the supply chain in a way that most procurement advisors cannot.
Whether you are at the early stages of a capital program or in the middle of a procurement that has stalled, we would welcome a conversation about how we can help.