BI Group has seen a boom in health business during the pandemic and Chief Procurement Officer Darkhan Shildebayev anticipates rising demand
BI GROUP
BI Group has seen a boom in health business during the pandemic and Chief Procurement Officer Darkhan Shildebayev anticipates rising demand
Darkhan Shildebayev , CPO , BI Group
The last 18 months have been universally challenging for the construction industry but companies of the size and pedigree of BI Group have weathered it better than most .
The COVID-19 crisis actually presented the group – which has 5,000 employees and is ranked as one of the leading globally – with unexpected opportunities , as it was tasked with building 15 hospitals in two months , spanning a total area of 115,000sqm .
Meeting the urgent health needs has been an overriding priority for its 160- strong procurement team , to the extent that it established a dedicated medical procurement division and even opened its own lab for PCR studies at Nur-Sultan ( formerly Astana – the name change was made by Presidential decree in March 2019 ).
This was on top of procuring items for the group ’ s 180 projects , covering everything from materials and machinery for housing developments to major stadium projects ; last year saw the launch of a 7,000-seat athletic complex in the Kazakhstan capital .
“ There was huge demand for medical equipment last year . We did well , as we never broke any agreement terms or schedules ,” said Chief Procurement Officer Darkhan Shildebayev . “ We believe
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