How a foreign manufacturer gets onto the ADNOC supplier list, step by step, checked against ADNOC's own guidance. And what the list does for you once you are on it.
You register and prequalify through the ADNOC Supplier Hub on SAP Ariba. It is free. As an overseas manufacturer you register through an Abu Dhabi based agent. You pass an integrity check run by Exiger, then prequalify for the product groups you want to supply. Once prequalified, you get invited to tenders for those groups. That is the right to quote. It is not an order.
I have sold into ADNOC onshore and offshore, including the £500K Dalma gas package and a run of smaller awards. Every one of those started with registration. Not one of them was won by it. Get the registration right. Then put your effort where the work is actually decided.
Do this first. ADNOC says overseas manufacturers can register through a local agent, which must be a company based in Abu Dhabi with a valid commercial licence. You need a valid and attested agency agreement covering product scope, facility location, duration and after sales support. Licence requirements also differ depending on whether you register as a vendor, a contractor or a manufacturer, so check which applies to you before you start.
Registration runs through the ADNOC Supplier Hub, which sits on SAP Ariba. You create or link an Ariba Network account and complete the supplier profile. There is no fee. ADNOC says submitted applications are reviewed within 5 business days. Have your company documents, trade licence, certifications and financials ready before you open the form, not after it asks.
ADNOC uses Exiger to run its integrity due diligence. The questionnaire arrives from an exiger.com address. Whitelist it so it does not land in spam.
Once your profile is accepted, a prequalification questionnaire follows for the specific products and services you applied for. This is where you prove capability. ADNOC asks for a reference list with at least three completed projects from the last five years, a quality management system such as ISO 9001, and HSE documentation for work groups. It estimates 90 days for prequalification. Be precise about which product groups you apply for. They set which tenders you are invited to.
Prequalified suppliers are invited to tenders for the product groups they are approved for, subject to the selection criteria on each one. From here, you are in the game. You are also one of several names on the same list.
ICV, In Country Value, is the UAE's local content score. ADNOC says an ICV certificate is not required to take part in its tenders. It also says suppliers with higher scores get a competitive edge, and ICV documents are expected in commercial bids. So it is not a gate, but it is a weight on the scale. Certification runs through the UAE National ICV Programme under the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology, from approved certifying bodies. One certificate covers one trade licence and is valid for up to 14 months from the financial statement date.
This is the part most manufacturers miss. The list gives you the right to quote. The specification decides which products a project is designed around, and it is written by engineering teams inside ADNOC and the EPC contractors, months before a tender appears. Get into that work early and the odds swing hard your way. Miss it and you are quoting against whatever was designed in, though work is still won from the list through the EPC relationship, the budget and a sharp commercial case.
Registration is permission to play. The specification and the EPC relationships decide who wins.
I saw the other side of this on an ADNOC Offshore vendor approval engagement. It showed how little structure safety manufacturers have for tracking compliance requirements across operators, and it is what Z358 One was built from.
ADNOC decides who is approved. Nobody can sell you an approval, and I do not. What I do is advise on getting the registration right first time, then do the commercial work that turns a listing into orders: the engineering relationships, the specification, and the EPC contractors. Read Getting Specified on ADNOC and Aramco Projects for the full picture, EPC contractor strategy for the route through the contractors, and the UAE and ADNOC for the market itself.
Through the ADNOC Supplier Hub, which runs on SAP Ariba. You register and complete your supplier profile, pass the integrity due diligence, then prequalify for the specific product groups you want to supply. Prequalified suppliers are invited to tenders for those groups.
No. ADNOC states there are no service fees for registration and prequalification.
ADNOC's route for overseas manufacturers is through a local agent: a company based in Abu Dhabi with a valid commercial licence, under a valid and attested agency agreement covering product scope, facility location, duration and after sales support.
ADNOC says submitted registration applications are reviewed within 5 business days, and it estimates 90 days for prequalification. The Exiger due diligence has to clear before ADNOC's review. These are ADNOC's own estimates for its own steps.
Exiger runs the integrity due diligence for ADNOC, and the questionnaire arrives from an exiger.com email address.
No. ADNOC says an ICV certificate is not required to take part in its tenders, but suppliers with higher scores get a competitive edge and ICV documents are expected in commercial bids.
No. Registration and prequalification give you the right to be invited and to quote. Whether your product is used is decided by the specification and by the EPC contractors who build the projects.
Sources: ADNOC Supplier Hub, registration · ADNOC Supplier Hub, prequalification · ADNOC Supplier Hub FAQs. Checked November 2026. Processes change, so confirm current steps on the official pages before you apply.
If you are on the list and the orders are not coming, the problem is almost always the specification and the EPC route, not the paperwork. That is the part I own.