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By the time our enquiry reaches you, this much is settled.

The first thing an export desk decides about an unknown buyer is whether the enquiry is worth answering. This is what has already been done before it reaches you.

Work done before you are contacted.

  • EXTRACTED

    The quantities are the tender's, not an estimate

    Tender documents arrive as scanned PDFs with inconsistent tables. Every line is pulled out with its reference, item, written specification, pack size, quantity, unit and required origin, and the extraction is reconciled against the source page count before anything is priced. You are quoting against the document, not against our summary of it.

  • ORIGIN

    You are only asked for lines you can actually supply

    Each line is sorted by what its origin clause demands. Some name a Western country outright, as in UK/USA or Equivalent. Some name a Western manufacturer instead. The rest are tied to local or Far East supply and never reach an overseas desk. That filtering happens before we write to you, which is why the schedule you get is short.

  • GROUPED

    Your lines, separated from everyone else's

    Hundreds of lines collapse into a manageable set once ordered by manufacturer and product family. You receive the subset your company can quote, priced per line. Nobody sends you a whole tender and asks you to find your own products in it.

  • ROUTES

    Both routes are priced, and you are told which you are in

    Manufacturer-direct gives the better unit price at volume but means one conversation per brand and separate freight from each. A multi-brand distributor puts many brands on one order and one shipment. We price both and the better landed cost wins, so a quote from you is compared against a like-for-like alternative rather than an assumption.

  • EXPORT

    Your export policy is confirmed before anyone prices anything

    Some distributors sell only inside their own market. Others hold territory arrangements that route a Pakistan enquiry to a local appointee. That question is in our first email, not discovered after your team has spent a morning on a schedule.

What arrives in your inbox from us.

A short email and one attached schedule containing only the lines your company can supply. Every line carries its reference, specification as written in the tender, pack size and quantity.

The email asks four things: whether you export to Pakistan directly, what your minimum order and lead time look like, what account documents you need from us, and which Incoterm you prefer to quote on. It does not ask you to guess what we want.

We record who was contacted, on which address, on what date, and what was asked. If a quote reaches us, it is captured per line item with its currency and its date. A quote without a date is worthless three months later.

Your price stays your price.

Supplier prices are held ex-supplier in the currency you quoted them in. Freight, duty, clearing and foreign exchange are modelled as separate lines and never folded silently into a unit price.

Quotes reach us in USD, GBP, CAD and EUR; the bid we submit is in PKR. Keeping those apart is what lets us come back and tell you precisely which line stopped working when a rate moved, instead of asking for a general discount.

What we have not set up yet.

Warehousing, the clearing agency relationship, the freight forwarder and the letter-of-credit facility are being arranged around the current mandate rather than claimed in advance. If your account opening depends on any of them being in place, ask, and you will be told exactly where it stands on the day you ask.

We would rather lose a week of your time to a straight answer than have a compliance check find a facility that does not exist.

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