Pradeep P
Kuwait
Summary
Strategic professional specialising in tender and bid management, proposal development, and commercial strategy. Experienced in contract negotiation, cost estimation, procurement, and supply chain coordination. Expertise in risk assessment, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement. Competent in contract administration and business development with a focus on project feasibility analysis. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Advanced AutoCAD, Primavera P6, and SAP.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Head of Tendering
Naser M. Al-Baddah & Partner Gen. Trdg. & Cont. Co. W.L.L
2009.01 - 2025.01
- Lead the Tendering Department responsible for bids.
- Develop and implement tendering strategies aligned with company growth objectives.
- Manage multidisciplinary bid teams including estimation, engineering, procurement, legal, and commercial departments.
- Oversee preparation of technical and commercial proposals for public and private sector clients.
- Review tender documents, contractual conditions, technical specifications, and commercial requirements.
- Lead negotiations with clients, consultants, suppliers, and subcontractors.
- Conduct risk reviews and ensure compliance with client requirements and company policies.
- Reduced bid preparation cycle time by 25% through process optimization.
- Established a centralized tender management system improving bid quality and compliance.
- Secured US Army contracts in Kuwait and NBTC become one of the potential contractor for US Army Projects.
- Achievements
Quantity Surveyor
Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company - Kuwait
2005.03 - 2008.05
- Prepared project estimations in accordance with the schedule of rates.
- Delivered accurate estimates with variance below 5% from project execution costs.
- Preparation of RA Bills and certification of clients by every month.
- Prepare a statement of final account, which records the actual costs for all sections of the job.
- Prepared change-of-scope estimations for increased areas in line with agreement provisions and approved IFC drawings.
- Checked and verified monthly contractor bills through physical verification of quantities via regular site visits.
- Prepared sub-contractor bills and cross-verified them with site work done, finalising the bills and obtaining approval from management as per the billing cycle.
- To calculate quantities for the various works as per WO pay items and as per IFC drawings.
- Detailed verification of quantities in bills i.e. checking of measurements as per drawing, JMRs, hand sketches of quantities to abstract sheet.
- Preparation of quantity reconciliation statement for client vs. subcontractor.
- Making sure that construction costs and production are managed as efficiently as possible.
- Coordinated with Engineering, Procurement, Contracts, Quality, and Commissioning departments to ensure smooth project execution.
- Monitoring the project to meet the customer requirement and achieve the planned target.
- Preparing comparison statement, negotiation with vendor to finalize the subcontract.
- Resolving disputes between contracting parties in a convincing manner.
- Study of work order like contract conditions, payment terms, Method of Measurements, closure conditions etc.
- Calculate the design quantities as per revised drawings and update to planning department after receiving.
- Assisted in technical proposal preparation.
- Recognised for outstanding contributions to project success.
- Supported successful bids for the Company.
Education
Diploma - Civil Engineering
Skills
- Tender & Bid Management
- Proposal Development
- Contract Management
- Commercial Strategy
- Contract Negotiation
- Cost estimation
- Risk management
- Feasibility analysis
- Supply chain management
- Business development
- Vendor management
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Advanced AutoCAD
- Primavera P6
- SAP
- Stakeholder Management
- Team leadership
Certification
- Certificate of Recognition for consistently demonstrating excellent safety performance, March 2013, EF-1769 project.
- Certificate of Completion in Foundation in Civil CADD at CADD Centre Training Services, City Centre, Trichur, February 2005.
- Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp and Supervisory Development Programme, Maharaja's Technological Institute, Thrissur, 1993.
LANGUAGES
English
Hindi
Malayalam
KEY PROJECTS
Super Hornet Procurement B, Base Infrastructure and Maintenance Hangar, Al Jaber Airbase, Kuwait, Contract Value: USD 70 Million, Role:, Directed complete tendering process., Managed bid submissions including Technical and commercial Proposals, Follow-up and response with client resulting in successful contract award., Pre-positioned Stock (APS) series 500 warehouses on Camp Arifjan. This project is the design and construction of up to five (5) Army., Contract Value: USD 30 Million, Role:, Oversaw technical and commercial proposal development., Achieved highest technical evaluation score among competitors., KNPC-CFP MAB2 HI-HI1-K002 UNIT 165 BUILDINGS WORK, Contract Value: USD 70 Million, Role:, Directed complete tendering process., Managed bid submissions including Technical and commercial Proposals, Follow-up and response with client resulting in successful contract award.
Timeline
Head of Tendering
Naser M. Al-Baddah & Partner Gen. Trdg. & Cont. Co. W.L.L
2009.01 - 2025.01
Quantity Surveyor
Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company - Kuwait
2005.03 - 2008.05