Procurement & Project Delivery
Making sure what was designed gets built, anywhere.
Led by Morgan Allan.
What we do
Complex projects fail in the supply chain more often than on the drawing board. The right material arrives late, the wrong material arrives on time, or a remote site is planned as if it were downtown. We help owners, contractors and EPCs plan and run procurement and delivery so that what was designed actually gets built, on the schedule the pro forma assumed.
The practice covers procurement strategy and sourcing for construction and infrastructure projects, logistics planning for remote and international sites, supplier and manufacturer selection, and delivery of manufactured building systems where conventional construction is not viable. Sourcing decisions also decide a project’s embodied carbon and waste, and off-site delivery is often the largest lever an owner has on both.
Morgan founded and ran Lighthouse Procurement Logistics for a decade, serving complex construction and infrastructure projects. Earlier he managed international special projects at Weatherhaven, working with global EPCs across mining, energy and infrastructure in Africa and the Americas, delivering manufactured shelter systems to places with no local supply chain at all. That is a useful education in what delivery really means.
Who it’s for
- Owners and developers who want procurement treated as a strategy rather than a purchasing function
- EPCs, mining, energy and infrastructure companies with remote or international sites
- Contractors and construction managers adopting a manufactured or panelized system for the first time
- Manufacturers who need to set up delivery, logistics and installation partners in a new market
How we work
- Procurement strategy: what to buy, from whom, on what terms, and what to make instead of buy
- Sourcing and selection: manufacturers, suppliers, logistics and installation partners, with real references
- Logistics planning: routing, staging, customs, site constraints, sequencing against the construction schedule
- Delivery management: expediting, quality at source, problem-solving when the plan meets the site
What you get
- A procurement plan tied to the construction schedule and the budget, not a list of vendors
- Vetted suppliers and partners, including in markets where you have no relationships
- Fewer surprises between order and installation
- A delivery approach for manufactured systems that the site team can actually execute
Example engagements
Three camps in Guinea in six months. For Weatherhaven, delivered three complete workforce camps in Guinea, West Africa, in six months: sourcing and shipping to a site with no local supply chain, then installation and handover.
A decade of Lighthouse Procurement Logistics. Founded and ran a procurement and logistics operation serving complex construction and infrastructure projects across North America, with clients including Bechtel, Vale and Odebrecht.