Selling to Iraq, and working with ITS.

The agent reads the tender document and the technical specification, checks them against the maker’s range, prices the scope and prepares the technical and commercial envelopes in the format the committee sets. It answers the committee’s clarifications and, once the contract is awarded, arranges inspection where the tender calls for it, the legalised documents, customs clearance and delivery to site. ITS bids the tenders that fit each manufacturer’s line, with that manufacturer’s equipment.

On the websites of the ministries and state companies, in Iraqi newspapers, and on the tender announcement pages of Iraqi embassies abroad, which carry state tenders open to foreign bidders. Tender documents are usually bought from the issuing company before the deadline. ITS follows the tenders for its principals’ product lines and sends them the ones that match.

Sources: Iraqi embassy tender announcements and Ministry of Planning: government contracts.

Each tender sets its own, as a share of the value, in the form and from the banks it names. As one example, a 2024 Ministry of Oil tender asked for an unconditional bid bond of 2% of the estimated cost, issued by a bank on the Central Bank of Iraq’s electronic platform. The performance bond follows on award, as the contract sets it. ITS prepares its bids with the bank guarantees each tender calls for.

Source: Iraqi Ministry of Oil tender document, May 2024.

International operators and their engineering contractors keep vendor lists, and a manufacturer joins through their pre-qualification: company documents, quality certificates, references and the product data they ask for. State companies qualify bidders tender by tender instead. ITS helps a manufacturer prepare for both, and supplies under the maker’s own name and certificates, which is what a vendor-list check tests.

On a new project the equipment is usually named in the engineering contractor’s specifications and approved-vendor list, which the operator approves. A manufacturer joins that list through the contractor’s pre-qualification, before the package goes out to bid. ITS follows the tenders for its principals’ product lines and helps a manufacturer prepare for that pre-qualification.

The tender specification decides, and many cite API and ISO standards. ITS checks each specification against your certificates before it bids, so you know where you stand before you price.

On terms you agree with ITS before the bid, case by case and to suit your company, as with the manufacturers ITS already works with. The Iraqi side of the sale is ITS’s to manage, so your team works with one partner and one agreement in Iraq.

The part of an Iraqi sale that takes local knowledge. ITS follows the tenders, prepares the bid, the bank guarantees and the legalised papers a tender calls for, arranges inspection where it is required, and carries the order through freight, customs clearance and delivery to site. The manufacturer deals with one company in Iraq, from the first tender to the site.

It depends on how the contract is built: a supply from abroad, or a supply with services in Iraq. Each tender also sets its own tax and retention terms, and ITS builds its price around them.

A commercial invoice and packing list, a certificate of origin legalised by the Iraqi embassy or commercial attaché in the country of manufacture, the bill of lading or air waybill, the third-party inspection certificate where the order calls for one, and the manufacturer’s material and test certificates. ITS prepares this file with the manufacturer before the goods move, as the contract and customs require. The list varies by commodity and entry point.

Iraqi state oil tenders normally require a third-party inspection certificate issued at the factory before shipment, from a body the tender itself names; many private orders do not. Where the order or tender calls for it, ITS arranges the inspection at origin with the manufacturer and the named inspector, then follows the consignment through to site.

Embassy legalisation is the chain an export document goes through before it is accepted in Iraq: the chamber of commerce, then national authentication, then the Iraqi embassy or commercial attaché in the country of origin. Iraqi state tenders usually ask for it on certificates of origin and on the other papers they name. ITS tells the manufacturer which papers need it and follows the chain through with them.

Where the product category falls under the conformity programme of Iraq’s Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (COSQC), the certificate is issued before shipment by an appointed inspection body, such as Bureau Veritas, Intertek or TÜV Rheinland. ITS checks the category with the manufacturer before the order ships.

Source: Intertek: product conformity for Iraq.

Yes. Where the order is delivered to site, ITS manages customs clearance in Iraq through licensed clearing agents, against the document set prepared at origin as customs and the contract require.

Most industrial equipment enters Iraq by sea through Umm Qasr, with heavy and pipe cargo often routed via Khor al-Zubair. European consignments can travel overland through the Ibrahim Khalil crossing from Türkiye. Instruments and spares fly into Baghdad, Erbil or Basra. ITS receives the consignment, manages clearance and delivers to site from Kirkuk.

Lead time into Iraq is the manufacturing time quoted by the works plus the import window: inspection, legalisation, freight and clearance. ITS quotes the two parts separately, so a project schedule can be planned on each, and keeps you informed as the order progresses.

To site, anywhere in Iraq. ITS works from Kirkuk and ships to all of Iraq, from the north to Basra, delivering to the plant or field named in the order after export, freight and customs clearance. Delivery is set in the supply scope and handed over under the site’s receiving procedure.

The manufacturer’s own service engineers, where the order calls for start-up on site. ITS arranges their visit with the manufacturer and the site access with the operator. Orders run from spare parts handed over to complete installations built with the manufacturer, such as calibration rooms.

ITS (International Technical Solutions), an Iraqi trading company in Kirkuk, represents foreign manufacturers to Iraq’s state and private buyers. It tracks the tenders and buyers for your line, bids the tenders that fit it with your equipment, arranges inspection where the tender calls for it, the documents, freight and customs clearance, delivers to site anywhere in Iraq and supplies the spares for equipment in service. Its team has supplied Iraq’s oil and gas sector since 2003.

ITS in Kirkuk represents makers of control valves, safety and relief valves, and instrumentation and calibration equipment to Iraq’s state and private buyers. These are core lines for ITS: it checks each tender specification against your range, bids the tenders that fit it with your equipment, and supplies original spares for valves and instruments already in service.

ITS works from Kirkuk, in the north of Iraq, and its team has supplied Iraq’s oil and gas sector since 2003. It represents foreign manufacturers to state and private buyers and ships from Kirkuk to all of Iraq.

Appointing an agent in Iraq normally means a written representation agreement naming the territory, the product scope and the tenders the agent may bid. ITS reviews the manufacturer’s line and confirms where it fits Iraqi operators’ specifications. Where a manufacturer appoints ITS formally, the letter is held on file and, with your consent, the relationship is listed on our manufacturers page as Authorized agent. Read how representation works.

ITS starts on your line as soon as a written agreement sets the territory, the products and the terms: it reviews your range against the current tenders, prepares your company papers with you and sets out the route to a first bid.

Both, depending on the maker: where a maker has appointed ITS in writing, ITS is its authorized agent; otherwise ITS supplies the maker’s equipment as a trader. ITS publishes its role with every manufacturer on its manufacturers page. “Authorized agent” means a signed letter from the manufacturer naming ITS is on file; “Supplied by ITS” means ITS supplies the maker’s genuine equipment into Iraq.

ITS completes manufacturers’ due-diligence questionnaires and works under a written agreement that sets out the territory, the products, and the commercial and compliance terms agreed between you.

Send the product scope or line card for the range, one target end-user or live tender reference if there is one, whether you already have an agent or distributor in Iraq, and any due-diligence questionnaire. ITS comes back with which Iraqi buyers purchase the category, which public tenders fit it, the document route your goods must take, and what it would need from you to bid a first tender.

Because Iraq is best served by a partner on the ground. ITS works from its office in Kirkuk, follows the Iraqi tenders for the manufacturers it works with and ships to all of Iraq, from the north to Basra.

ITS supplies industrial equipment to state and private companies across Iraq from Kirkuk: control valves, safety valves, instrumentation and calibration equipment, mechanical seals, compressors and spares, cold boxes, flare systems, pipes, fittings and flanges, and OEM spare parts. ITS, International Technical Solutions, runs each supply from tender or quotation to delivery on site.

Both. ITS supplies state-owned operators through public tender, and private companies, contractors and plants through direct quotation. A private buyer sends a datasheet, a nameplate photo or a parts list and receives an offer with the maker, the origin, the lead time and the document plan; the equipment then follows the same documents and delivery route, with inspection where the order calls for it.

Oil and gas first, with spare parts for power stations, refineries and industrial plants. ITS supplies the operators of oil and gas fields and gas-processing plants, and the engineering contractors who build and maintain them, from process valves to flare systems, cooling equipment, instruments and spares.

Yes. ITS supplies Iraq’s state-owned oil and gas operators through public tender, and the engineering contractors who build and maintain their plants. In these tenders the technical evaluation comes before the commercial one, and ITS prepares its bids with the bank guarantees each tender calls for.

Yes. ITS supplies new, genuine equipment from the original manufacturer or its authorised channel, with the manufacturer’s certificates. The certificate of origin and the material and test certificates trace back to the maker, and third-party inspection at origin, by the inspector the client names, takes place before shipment where the order calls for it. Where a line comes through the maker’s authorised channel, ITS says so in the offer.

Yes. ITS takes on large supply packages and runs them end to end: tender and quotation, sourcing from the manufacturer, inspection at origin where the tender calls for it, the bank guarantees each tender calls for, legalised documents, freight and delivery to site. One desk in Kirkuk follows the purchase orders, the inspection schedule, the shipping documents and the delivery.

Approved vendor lists name the manufacturer, not the trader, so a local supplier qualifies by supplying makers already on the list. ITS supplies against the manufacturer’s works order under the maker’s own name and certificates, which is what a vendor-list check tests. Where a required maker is absent, ITS can approach it directly.

Yes. ITS sources original (OEM) spare parts to order for equipment in service, including trim sets, seats, actuators, positioners and instrument spares. Requests are matched against the original serial or tag number, so the part is sourced to the original specification, and ITS helps trace parts no longer in production. Each request is quoted with the lead time from the works.

Send the datasheet, tag list or tender document to info@itsiraq.com or through the contact page, with quantities, the delivery point and the tender or contract number if there is one. ITS quotes the equipment delivered, from manufacture at origin, with inspection where the order calls for it, to clearance and the last mile, and answers from Kirkuk in Arabic or English. Ranges, specifications and terms vary by manufacturer and contract, and the offer confirms them for your requirement.

ITS (International Technical Solutions for General Trading) is an Iraqi trading and technical-solutions company in Kirkuk, established in 2021. It supplies industrial equipment from international manufacturers to oil, gas and industrial operators across Iraq, and represents those manufacturers to Iraqi buyers.

No. Despite the initials, ITS (International Technical Solutions) does not sell software or IT services. It supplies industrial equipment from international manufacturers to Iraq’s oil and gas sector, with spare parts for power stations and refineries, and represents those manufacturers to Iraqi buyers.

Omar Farooq Al Obaidi is Managing Director, CEO of ITS, and leads the company from Kirkuk, Iraq. Its Commercial Manager is Farooq Mahmood Al Obaidi, who founded the Al Obaidi Company in Kirkuk in 1980 and has worked in industrial trading ever since. ITS itself was established in Kirkuk in 2021.

Its team has supplied Iraq’s oil and gas sector since 2003 and has delivered 300+ contracts. ITS itself was established in Kirkuk in 2021, built on Farooq Mahmood Al Obaidi’s experience in industrial trading since 1980.

ITS supplies industrial equipment from international manufacturers to the oil and gas sector: control valves, safety valves, instrumentation and calibration equipment, mechanical seals, compressors and spares, cold boxes, flare systems, pipes, fittings and flanges, and OEM spare parts, with spare parts also for power stations, refineries and industrial plants. It manufactures nothing: it supplies state and private companies across Iraq, by tender or quotation, from the maker’s works to site.

In Kirkuk, Iraq. ITS (International Technical Solutions for General Trading) works from its office in Kirkuk and ships to all of Iraq, from the north to Basra.