Vendor/third party inspection & Expediting

Vendor Surveillance, sometimes referred as source inspection, shop inspection or third party inspection, involves inspection activities performed at manufacturer’s works of all types of new build mechanical, electrical, electronic, and instrumentation equipment that are purchased by clients within the Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Power, Pharmaceutical and Mining Industries.

Main goal is to remove or minimize the risk of faulty materials entering the supply chain
Vendor inspections are surveillance activities carried out at supplier’s premises. This service is particularly relevant in the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Power Generation, Pipelines, Marine, Mining, Infrastructure, Transportation & Renewables industries where clients procurement departments may procure a considerable amount of items, with many different manufacturers around the world.

Main benefits:

• assure the development and continued operation of a project, which depends on the right quality of equipment, products and components delivered by vendors
• verify the conformity with the requirements of applicable international or national codes, standards and technical specifications stated in the contract between client and manufacturer, before the products are dispatched.
• detect eventual defects at source
• determinate in advance the compliance with client expectations, in order to minimize or avoid safety issues and the risk of extra costs, due to subsequent failures at site.

The main areas of inspection are:

• Bulk materials: Pipes, valves, fittings, flanges, rebar etc
• Winches, wires, cylinders
• Lifting equipmnt
• Electrical components: Electric motors, actuators, converters, transformers, UPS and MCC panels, etc
• Packaged & static equipment: Skids, boilers, vessels, fire-fighting equipment, cranes, heat exchangers, stacks and incinerators, etc
• Rotating equipment: Turbo gas generators and compressors, pumps, etc.
• Subsea, Umbilicals, Risers, Flexibles and power cables
• OCTG, linepipes, plates & D&C equipment
• Drilling Rig components: Top drive, travelling block, draw works, mud pumps, BOP, monkey board etc
• Cargo surveys

Deliverables
Our Inspectors conduct second and third party inspections (3.2 certification) of mechanical parts, electrical components and commodities, according a clients detailed assignment and applying contractual specifications, codes and international standards. We apply a rigourous vetting process of candidate qualification, selection and monitoring to ensure only the most competent and experienced Inspector suited to the job is selected appointed for the job.

Reports are issued in line with clients requirements following implementation of some or all of the following phases:

• Pre-Inspection Meeting
• Interim/Progressive Inspections – witness/monitor/hold/review points during manufacturing and testing
• Factory Acceptance Test(FAT)
• Site acceptance test (SAT)
• Data documentation reviews
• System Integration Test (SIT)
• String Testing
• SWL load surveys for lifting equipment
• Pre-Shipment inspection before load out
• As additional value, our specialists have the necessary expertise and skills to:
• Review/critique specifications and ITP/QCP’s & MPS documentation
• Review Welding procedures and cover positions as an Inspection Coordinator inside a clients organization.
• Mechanical completions

Our global network of competent field inspectors all work to a single certified system to provide a continuous high level of vendor inspection services to a multitude of national and international clients.