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Ocean Freight Bid Support

Custom solutions to help de-risk next year’s ocean freight tender: We have the tools, expertise and insights to help minimise risk and guide you through this year’s tender season.

Drawing on our extensive resources, market knowledge and understanding of best practices, we are able to provide robust and practical recommendations at each stage of the service provider selection and management process from bid preparation and management to capacity commitments and contract terms.

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Bid strategy and management

Powered by our extensive market research resources and ocean freight cost benchmarking capabilities, we are able to provide real-time insights, practical recommendations and robust KPIs at each stage of the bid process. 

 

Our team of experts will help you build your bid strategy including how to implement sustainability in your tender, identify areas of bid risk and help you build a robust and achievable timeline to maintain your ocean business. We work collaboratively with your teams to manage the bid process, and alongside our technology partner, Freightender, can deliver interactive bid analytics to successfully drive the commercial process.

 

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In their words...

“As a global leader in protection solutions seeking to transition from NVOCC to direct ocean carrier contracts, we selected Drewry’s bid strategy and management team to manage this year’s ocean freight procurement event. Drewry’s advisory team brought professionalism and invaluable insight to all stages of the RFI and RFQ process, from managing the global tender and liaising with bidders to scenario analytics and inter-party communication and co-ordination.

Our team was impressed by both the team appointed and the solution presented - and very satisfied with the results achieved. I would be happy to recommend Drewry to other companies.”

 

Andrew J. Gillespie, Director, Global Logistics, Ansell Healthcare Products

 

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"We engaged Drewry to provide advisory RFI/RFQ services for our group’s large and complex Ocean Freight Global Procurement Event. Drewry met our requirements and provided a high level of expertise, advanced analytics and responsive communication with all parties, under tight deadlines. As a result, we were able to obtain improved contractual terms and services from ocean providers."

 

Vice President, Indirect procurement, US-Headquartered, global technology company

 

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