Insights
ICV Index
Findings drawn from Qatar's public procurement award data. Every figure is computed at build time and stamped with its method — nothing here is typed in.
ICV grace period: what it does and does not protect
A grace period keeps a supplier eligible to bid after a certificate lapses. It does not keep the score competitive — why that distinction is a commercial problem, not an administrative one.
ICV certificationICV certificate Qatar: what's mandatory, and what's coming in 2027
Government-tender certification is postponed to early 2027, but ICV is already mandatory in the Energy Sector. What the certificate covers, and why the bar is rising before the deadline arrives.
ExplainerWhat your ICV score is actually worth in a Qatar tender
Qatar scores tenders on Bid Price × (1 − ICV%), lowest outcome wins — so an ICV gap converts arithmetically into a price cushion. What today's spread of scores is worth.
ICV Index — Issue 1The ICV bar moved
A fixed-cohort read of how Qatar's cost-over-cost scoring shifted median ICV in a single year, and what the gap is worth on price.