Middle East Business

ADNOC puts more than Dh60 billion of manufacturing work on offer to UAE suppliers through 2030

By Staff Writer  |  26 October 2026

More than 200 products and a range of spare parts are open for local manufacture, and the company is cutting supplier registration time by up to 80 per cent and dropping prequalification for 60 per cent of service categories.

ADNOC has put more than Dh60 billion, about $16.3 billion, of local manufacturing opportunities on the table for the period to 2030. The list was unveiled on Sunday at the second Make it with ADNOC Forum in Abu Dhabi, held ahead of the Adipec energy conference. The first forum took place in May.

The opportunities cover more than 200 essential products and a broad set of critical spare parts. They fall into six groups: rotating equipment and power; electrical, control and automation systems; drilling and completion equipment; chemicals and catalysts; piping, fabrication and heavy equipment; and spare parts and advanced manufacturing. Many of the items are imported today. Products named at the forum include electrical submersible pumps, oil country tubular goods, pipes and compressors.

ADNOC's growth creates a powerful opportunity to deepen the UAE's industrial strength. Our next phase is about giving manufacturers and investors the confidence to act: clarity on what we need, visibility of when we need it, and a simpler route to compete for our business.

Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and ADNOC Managing Director and Group CEO

Faster registration, one evaluation

The company is also changing how suppliers get onto its books and how bids are judged. A redesigned registration and prequalification process aims to cut the time needed by up to 80 per cent. It halves the number of documents required and removes prequalification altogether for 60 per cent of service categories. Registration, qualification and compliance move into a single window, and artificial intelligence will check documents. Registration that used to take weeks can now be done within a day.

Commercial offers and in-country value offers will be scored together in a single evaluation, and the old bid-matching approach is being retired. From 1 November the weighting will be 70 per cent commercial and 30 per cent in-country value. Salama Al Awadhi, ADNOC's senior vice president for group commercial, in-country value and industrial development, said contracts below Dh2 million will be exempt from in-country value requirements and those below Dh50 million will carry no retention obligation. Where retention does apply, ADNOC's supplier portal will calculate and release it automatically.

What it means for contractors

The Local+ list, which gives UAE-made products priority on ADNOC projects, has grown to more than 100 manufacturers from 70 at its launch in May. Contractors bidding for new engineering, procurement and construction work must source the relevant products from approved makers on that list. ADNOC also signed agreements with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office and KEZAD Group, and manufacturers can seek finance through the National Industrial Resilience Fund.

Since 2018 the in-country value programme has redirected more than Dh307 billion into the UAE economy, localised more than 130 products and helped establish 95 factories. For engineering, procurement and construction contractors and their supply chains, the immediate change is the scoring. A single evaluation with a fixed 30 per cent weight for local content replaces bid-matching, so the local content offer must be priced and evidenced from the first submission rather than adjusted later. Smaller subcontracts under Dh2 million fall outside the in-country value requirements altogether, which removes an administrative step for specialist trades.