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Local Content Services

We help organisations measure their local content percentage, prepare the required data and documentation, and complete the review and certificate issuance requirements — strengthening their readiness for government tenders.

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Overview

An integrated local content service

We provide an integrated service that begins with understanding your activity and the certificate requirements, moves through data collection, document review, and measurement of the percentage, and ends with addressing observations and completing the procedures to issue the report or certificate under the approved scope of work.

Service components

What does the service include?

The components below are parts of a single scope of work, delivered within the same engagement according to what is agreed.

  • Understanding your requirements and the scope of work
  • Preparing the list of required data and documents
  • Reviewing financial and operational statements and data
  • Measuring the local content percentage
  • Preparing or reviewing the baseline
  • Reviewing employee and payroll data
  • Reviewing purchases and suppliers
  • Reviewing assets and depreciation
  • Identifying missing data and observations
  • Supporting you in addressing observations
  • Completing the review procedures
  • Issuing the report or certificate according to the scope of work
Who it is for

Who needs the local content service?

  • Companies bidding for government tenders
  • Contractors and suppliers
  • Industrial establishments
  • Companies working with government entities
  • Organisations that need to issue or update the certificate
  • Companies that want to measure their baseline
  • Organisations looking to improve the readiness of their data
Preparation

Required documents

  • Financial statements
  • Trial balance
  • Employee and payroll data
  • Purchase data
  • Supplier data
  • Asset and depreciation data
  • Operating expenses
  • Contracts
  • Invoices
  • Supporting documents

Final requirements may vary depending on your activity, the financial period, the type of certificate, and the scope of work.

How we work

Service delivery stages

  1. Understanding the scope of work

    We establish your activity, the financial period, and the type of certificate required, then define the scope of work and its deliverables.

  2. Receiving data and documents

    We provide the list of required data and documents, receive them, and verify that they are complete.

  3. Reviewing the data

    We review the financial and operational data and the supporting documents, and reconcile them against the accounting records.

  4. Measuring the local content percentage

    We carry out the measurement under the applicable methodology, documenting the basis of treatment and the assumptions used.

  5. Addressing observations

    We set out the missing data and observations, and support you in completing and correcting them.

  6. Issuing the report or certificate

    We complete the review procedures, and the report or certificate is issued according to the approved scope of work.

Readiness

Improving organisational readiness

During delivery, opportunities may emerge to improve your readiness and the quality of your data. The areas most often worth reviewing include:

  • Data and documentation
  • Supplier classification
  • Local spend
  • Employment
  • Training
  • Assets
  • Purchase documentation
  • Record quality

Improvement opportunities depend on your actual operations and the quality of your data and documentation. No specific percentage can be guaranteed before the review is carried out.

Context

Local content frameworks in Saudi Arabia

Local content requirements in the Kingdom sit across several overlapping frameworks. Which one applies — and how the percentage is measured and reported — depends on who the buyer is and what is being procured.

LCGPA
The Local Content and Government Procurement Authority sets local content policy and the measurement methodology applied across government procurement.
Etimad
The government procurement platform through which tenders are published and bids submitted. Where local content is required, the conditions are stated in the tender documents.
IKTVA
Saudi Aramco’s In-Kingdom Total Value Add programme, which applies to companies in its supply chain and runs on its own reporting cycle.
Buyer programmes
Large industrial buyers and giga-projects — NUSANED among them — operate their own local content requirements alongside the national framework.

Frameworks, thresholds, and reporting cycles change over time. The applicable framework and the rules in force should be confirmed for each tender or contract.

Tenders

Local content in government tenders

  • Requirements differ from one tender to another.
  • Some tenders may require a certificate or a local content percentage.
  • The terms and specifications booklet must be reviewed.
  • Obtaining the certificate does not guarantee winning the tender.
Why us

Why Alruwais & Partners?

  • Professional audit experience
  • Understanding of financial and operational data
  • A clear methodology
  • Follow-through across every stage of the work
  • Support in addressing observations
  • Quality of communication and deliverables
FAQ

Common questions about local content

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Contact our team to review your requirements and define the scope of work and the documents needed.

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