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expectations of an international EPC contractor, MET management;
– through its hub KTAZE – invested efforts in driving the • full sharing of project milestones and
strategic national suppliers to fulfill its needs project- achievements;
wise and to become more effective in providing • implementation of Sponsor Committee to provide
materials/services with the quality requested. In guidelines to project teams in a coordinated and
addition, managing a main subcontractor which was proactive way;
responsible of all construction and commissioning • ensuring a fast-track decision-making process to
phases of the project implementation was naturally one provide clear vision and communication to ensure
of the most important aspects, together with the that goals, decisions and actions are consistent
necessity to find domestically available skilled and with the benefits of the project and fully achieved.
technically prepared resources, as blue and white
collars are still in the learning curve to master how to This new approach and this new vision of project
deal with international contractors. In this respect, all development was implemented with the involvement of
national resources involved in the projects were the Client organization, in order to ensure its complete
successfully managed, educated and mentored in satisfaction.
terms of safety issues.

The execution
Since the inception of project activities, engineering
was implemented in order to deliver the necessary
documentation to obtain all the permits, without which
site construction activities would not have started.
The preparation of the document “Issued for
Permitting” has been coordinated with a National
Design Institute in which a dedicated team of
specialist was deployed. The decision to deploy
such team and to assign an Interface Manager fully
dedicated to the administration of local technical
authorities were among the success factors in the
arrangement of the permitting, allowing a
coordinated and structured information flow
decreasing significantly the timing of the permit Procurement strategy Overview of the PP
issuance. All permitting documentation duly signed The Group made an effective procurement campaign unit - utilities
by all necessary national regulatory bodies were based on MET global supply chain. In particular, the
obtained on-time and in-line with project and Client early placement of the purchase orders related to the
expectation. As a matter of fact, construction long lead items, like loop reactors and extruders
sequences, timely availability of permits and enabled to have the main and most complex items at
materials are jointly of great importance to site at an early stage of the project.
implement a project of this type In addition, the leverage on the domestic market,
In this scenario, the Group managed to provide feasible which optimized time efficiency and minimized lead
look-ahead work-fronts for the construction time, allowed to have part of the bulk materials ready
subcontractor which were also supported by the to be erected at the early stage of the project.
concrete utilization of 3D model tools. Finally, the extensive session of Factory Acceptance
The utilization of another Group tool such as Marian Test for equipment in vendor premises, coupled with a
allowed a full control over the in-coming material at the reliable and sustainable supply chain, allowed to have
warehouse, thus introducing a level of insurance of the materials available at construction site in line with time
implementation of different work-fronts, which was vital expectations.
during the first phase of the construction project.

Subcontracting strategy
Sophisticated Coordination with Client and PMC The first subcontract awarded in Azerbaijan was for the
A sophisticated day-by-day coordination with the additional soil investigation to a national company to
Client was developed with Client and its PMC in order prepare the additional soil report to drive the correct
to achieve the following targets: implementation of civil engineering.
• full transparency and reliability in project The construction works were implemented by a sole

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