How Gatekeeper identified €110,000 in pricing discrepancies and flagged 2 mandatory compliance failures that manual review would have missed.
A North Sea operator needed to evaluate three vendor proposals for a hybrid subsea umbilical supply contract — Aker Solutions, OneSubsea (SLB), and TechnipFMC.
The RFP package specified 2,400m of umbilicals with 24F fibre-optic cores, hydraulic tubes, and electrical conductors, plus delivery DDP Kristiansund. Each proposal arrived as a different mix of PDF, DOCX, and XLSX — with technical data, BOMs, and compliance certificates scattered across annexes.
Manual evaluation would have taken the procurement team 2–3 weeks of spreadsheet cross-referencing, technical review, and clause-by-clause compliance verification. And even then, subtle discrepancies — a line-item total that doesn't sum, an "as applicable" qualifier on a mandatory cert — often slip through.
API 17E non-compliance at evaluation stage means awarding a contract that fails FAT, slipping the project by months, and re-opening procurement at 3× the original cost.
Gatekeeper ingested all three proposal packages and scored them against the RFP's six criteria, extracted every line item, and cross-checked each vendor's compliance annex against the mandatory API/DNV clauses.
OneSubsea was recommended as the sole compliant vendor at €5,800,000 with a 54-week delivery to Week 46, 2026. The €110,000 pricing discrepancy was resolved pre-award. Two vendors were eliminated on mandatory compliance grounds — failures that would have required weeks of manual cross-referencing to surface.
[Procurement Lead quote about evaluation accuracy and time savings — pending approval from client legal.]
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