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Your RFP, ready to launch in 10 days.

I help you reduce your costs by launching the RFP you do not have time to run. In 10 days, so the decision at the end is the right one.

RFPs of €0.5-5M, indirect spend, companies above €50M revenue. Savings, but not only: a tightened need, innovation captured from suppliers, risk transferred, a decision your board can defend.

Book a 30-min call€10,000 ex. VAT · fixed price · never by the day

Guaranteed: ready to launch in 10 days, or I keep working at no extra cost.

Why this offer exists

I dreamed of the day procurement would be strategic somewhere other than large groups.

At Amazon it was. Data, tools, time. More than €150M a year on my categories. Business and finance teams working with us rather than after us. Savings, innovation, sustainability.

Then I left. And I found that in smaller organizations that machinery was rarely in place. Understaffed teams when they existed at all. Everything by hand.

The opportunities, everyone could see them. Nobody had the time. Launching a tender took so much work that it kept getting pushed back. Then it was left to slide. The contract renewed itself. Three more years with a supplier never challenged.

"We will do it next time."

On a spend of €1-5M, roughly 10% walks away with that contract. €100-500K.

So I stopped waiting for it to change on its own. I spent most of 2026 driving down the cost of this method. What took three months now fits in ten days.

What that changes is not for me.

  • The file you have been pushing back for six months goes out this quarter, run with a real procurement method.
  • Your teams get back the time they spent running a process that was never theirs.
  • And your decision holds in front of your committee, because you know exactly how it was built.

Mid-market companies equipped with the artillery of large groups, adapted to their stakes and their constraints.

Alex Lio, indirect procurement operator, at work in his coworking space
Alex Lio · founder, The Procurementor

Start small, scale on proof

One RFP. Then a category. Then the strategy.

No transformation programme at the first meeting. We work together on one tender, it proves itself. Then, if you want, the method extends.

10 days

One RFP

The RFP Launch: your stuck tender, launched in 10 days, steered to a mastered decision. This is where we start, and where we prove things.

Then

A category

The "3 RFPs per quarter" sprint, category strategy: the method extended to where the rest of the margin sleeps, with your teams on board.

At max

The procurement strategy

Turnkey RFx, full programme, AI adoption: the procurement function scaled up, with your teams at the controls.

The Procurementor method

Five movements, one extension.

The standard of large groups, compressed into 10 days for a company your size. Everything is decided before the send: the need challenged, the baseline clean, the grid frozen before the bids open.

  1. 01

    Make people talkWhere savings are born

    Sponsor framing: objectives, scope, calendar. Then stakeholder interviews: the need collected and challenged, the real need separated from comfort. The savings sleep in the spec, rarely in the sticker price. No AI here: pure craft.

    The real need separated from comfort: the first source of savings.

  2. 02

    Reveal

    Your scattered data rebuilt into an operational baseline, confronted with a market should-cost. No point hoping for 10% if the market says 2%. Without a baseline, no offer can be compared.

    A realistic savings target, calibrated on the market.

  3. 03

    Converge

    A shared vision emerges across departments: everyone states their need, everyone ends up wanting the same deal. The deal is shaped end to end, effective and efficient, the risk moved to the supplier side.

    Every department behind a single deal.

  4. 04

    DeliverDay 10 · guaranteed

    The deliverable: your RFP launched in 10 days. Complete file, reviewed together, then sent, the evaluation grid frozen before the first offer. This is where the guarantee lives: if it is not ready in 10 days, I keep working at no extra cost.

    Your RFP sent, bids finally comparable.

  5. 05

    Steer

    When the offers come in, you know how to compare them. Steering the RFP through to the recommendation: a choice understood and controlled, with its impacts and, where needed, its change management identified.

    A recommendation you can defend in front of your board.

  6. +

    Drive adoptionExtension · beyond the base · if needed

    Triggered by movement 05. In direct procurement, the nomenclature forces the change. In indirect, only adoption does. When the identified impacts call for it, change management is added as a module.

    Savings that outlive the signature.

The offer in detail

The RFP Launch, line by line.

What you receive

  • Sponsor kick-off: objectives, scope, success criteria, calendar
  • Stakeholder interviews: the need captured and challenged, the deal shaped
  • Your data made operational: cleaned baseline, should-cost comparison
  • The complete ready-to-send RFP package, reviewed together, then shipped
  • Bid reception, comparison grid, award recommendation with impacts identified
  • Post-RFP debrief: what your tender reveals about the system, bridge to the Audit line

The prerequisites, said upfront

A qualified sponsorYour data handed over (messy is fine)The contract path agreed upfrontA known supplier landscape (else, the RFI drawer)

A prerequisite missing? Scope and price adjust, and I tell you before we start, not during.

RFP Launch · fixed price

€10,000ex. VAT · ready in 10 days

At stake on a €0.5-5M RFP: €50-500K recoverable, first in the definition of the need. The base costs 0.1 to 0.5% of the spend.

Pays for itself at 1% savings on a €1M RFP.

Two guarantees

The conversation first: I tell you whether your RFP is even worth launching. Often the honest answer is no, and it is free.

Ready to launch in 10 days, or I keep working at no extra cost. No success fee. Never billed by the day.

Launch my RFPSimulate my weighted grid

Drawers, depending on your case

Market RFINegotiation supportAdoption & change managementCategory strategy

Legal contract drafting is excluded.

Not for you if: revenue under €50M, or a full category strategy expected at the base price.

The math, for a CFO or a department leader

Paid back at 1%

On a €1M RFP, the base is covered as soon as savings reach 1%. The target is around 10%.

€10K against €50-500K

The base costs 0.1 to 0.5% of the spend at stake, on an RFP of €0.5-5M.

Signable alone

An amount a department leader commits without building an investment case.

You fund it with the money you were leaving on the table.

Why me

An operator who delivers, not a firm that recommends.

I do not stop until it is delivered and the benefits are evident. A procurement operator who ships code: deep in IT and data, and I negotiate like a buyer. I speak the language of finance, and of the departments across the table: IT, HR, supply chain, production.

Alex Lio in conversation, ready to frame a tender
Advisor + operator + coachI advise, I execute, I transfer. The same person from kick-off to recommendation.
€600M+ managed12 years in indirect procurement, 4 of them at Amazon: €150M a year, dozens of entities unified.
Network of 100+ expertsI deliver every engagement myself; the network covers niche specialties.
My tools, coded by meEU-hosted sourcing platform: structured capture, bids received on platform, comparison grids. The reason it goes fast.

Categories I have operated in

Telecom & networksIT & SaaSEnergy & utilitiesLogistics & transportProfessional servicesFit-out & workplaceMaintenance & facility managementGeneral services

Proof

The last RFP nobody could launch.

Lived · IBEX 35 telecom operator

€20M · >20%

The multi-entity maintenance RFP nobody could launch. Pushed back 8 months, unblocked and launched. First round: 27 incomparable bids. Decision frame set, second round reframed, fixed-price model per equipment per year: the risk moved to the supplier side. Over 20% savings. A routine RFP turned strategic.

The flag sentence
"I did not know procurement could be this strategic."

A director, at the end of an engagement.

See the case studies

The questions I get

Before you book, the answers.

How can a serious RFP fit in 10 days?

Not by hand. Method first, compressed by a platform I built, hosted in Europe. AI only acts where I can judge its output: assisted drafting, offer analysis, comparison. Judgment, arbitrations and negotiation stay pure craft. The 10 days are a challenge I want to take on with you; what matters is the decision made at the end.

My data is a mess. Is that a problem?

No: messy data is the normal case. The Reveal movement rebuilds it into an operational baseline, confronted with a market should-cost. Nonexistent data is a different scope, and I tell you upfront.

Who does the work?

Me. I deliver every engagement myself, directly with your sponsor and your teams. The network of 100+ experts covers niche specialties when needed. And the method stays with you after the engagement.

How much does it cost?

€10,000 ex. VAT, fixed price. Never billed by the day, no success fee. On a €0.5-5M RFP that is 0.1 to 0.5% of the spend, against €50-500K typically recoverable.

What happens after the RFP is sent?

Steering is part of the base: bid reception, comparison on the frozen grid, award recommendation with impacts identified. Then the post-RFP debrief tells you what your tender reveals about the system. If the impacts call for it, adoption and change management are added as a drawer.

Is this for me?

Companies above €50M revenue, indirect RFPs of €0.5-5M. Below that, the spend cannot carry an RFP of this size, and I will tell you honestly. The conversation is worth it even if we never work together: often the answer is "do not launch this RFP".

Shall we look at your RFP together?

30 minutes. I tell you whether your tender deserves to be launched, and what it could bring back. Often the answer is no, and it costs nothing.