If interested, a potential contractor may, prior to the accreditation stage, send the following information by email to sp-dzu@nlmk.com:
Purchases in numbers
239
billion RUB
>14
thousand
70
28%
87%
>70
thousand
What We Purchase
The wide range of activities of the NLMK Group leads to a broad spectrum of requirements for internal customers and a diverse range of procured items. The Company’s Procurement Function includes both centralized and decentralized elements: this organizational structure allows us to ensure our procurement activities are carried out as efficiently as possible and facilitates prompt interaction with suppliers. Over 50 category strategies have been developed for centralized categories, ensuring reliable and uninterrupted procurement for the NLMK Group.
How Procurement is Conducted in the Company
The activities of the NLMK Group’s Procurement Function are aimed at increasing process efficiency, implementing advanced practices and modern digital solutions in procurement, and building long-term partnerships to ensure maximum transparency and openness in supplier selection.
Timely and accurate provision of high-quality goods and services by suppliers and contractors directly affects the quality of products and the stability of production processes at NLMK Group.
Strong and mutually beneficial relationships with reliable suppliers and contractors are essential for stable operations and fulfilling the Group’s commitments.
NLMK Group's procurement procedures, regardless of the form they are conducted, are not tenders, competitions, or auctions, the conduct of which is regulated by Articles 447, 448, 449, and 449.1 of Part One of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. NLMK Group selects suppliers in accordance with its internal regulations and documents and reserves the right to (a) not determine a winner based on the results of the procurement procedures, and (b) conduct additional stages of the procurement procedures aimed at achieving additional cost savings. No stage of the procurement procedure can be considered final until the company officially announces the winner. The official announcement of the winner of the procurement procedure is made in the corporate procurement information system, by email, or by official letter.
Procurement Function Priorities
The priorities of the Procurement Function are to ensure the reliable and uninterrupted supply of materials, services, and professional services for construction and installation work to the NLMK Group. The procurement process is built in such a way as to guarantee timeliness, accuracy, and high quality of procured goods and services, as well as maximum transparency and competitiveness.
Ethical and conscientious business conduct is a mandatory prerequisite for cooperation with the NLMK Group. Therefore all our partners must comply with the NLMK Supplier Code of Business Ethics.
For effective operation and ongoing improvement, the NLMK Group has adopted the Integrated Management System Policy. We also expect our counterparties to strictly comply with applicable legal requirements, including those related to environmental protection, industrial safety, and occupational health. We see the main goal of compliance as ensuring the safety of employees, contractors, and all residents of our regions of presence.
NLMK Group seeks to establish mutually beneficial partnerships based on open interaction to achieve unique results at NLMK sites, as well as to provide conditions for the continuous development of our partners.
- Competitiveness, openness, and objectivity in counterparty selection;
- Minimizing the risk of counterparties failing to meet their obligations (such as late or incomplete delivery, violation of quality requirements, etc.);
- Achieving optimal, fair market prices and the most favorable acquisition conditions for materials/services for NLMK Group companies in major procurement procedures, while minimizing the risk of legal consequences for NLMK Group companies;
- Shaping and strengthening the image of NLMK Group as a fair and open customer ready for cooperation, protecting its corporate interests through collective decision-making.
How to become a partner of NLMK Group: requirements and conditions of cooperation
To become a partner, you must:1
Fill in the registration form on the e-procurement platform
2
Fill in the accreditation questionnaire
Applicants receive a notification in case of successful accreditation.
3
Pass the qualification procedure (if required by the terms of the tender or at the initiative of the partner)
After successful accreditation, the following qualification questionnaires become available to partners:
- Category questionnaires — to enter into approved supplier groups for the categories that require pre-qualification;
- OHS questionnaire — mandatory for contractors and subcontractors who intend to provide services or perform work in MRO, CIW, outsourcing, transportation, or supply process equipment with supervised installation on the premises of NLMK Group.
- Environmental questionnaire — to enter into approved supplier groups based on environmental performance.
If comments are identified at the qualification stage, additional supplier audit/on-site inspection may be requested. In case the OHS audit resulted in supplier restrictions, the questionnaire needs to be resubmitted in full in order to lift them.
4
Participate in procurement procedure
Submit a proposal for participation in a closed tender if invited via e-mail or in an open-call tender on the e-platform. To do this, follow the link in the e-mail and familiarize yourself with the tender terms and requirements, submit an offer within the deadline.
5
Conclude a contract
Deliver materials or services. NLMK Group favours deals based on its model contracts. Contract execution and management is done by the Corporate Solutions Centre (CSR) under a service agreement between NLMK Group and CSR.
6
Participate in assessment and audit
Submit a bid to participate in a closed tender after receiving an invitation by email or in an open one on the electronic trading platform. To do this, follow the link in the email, review the tender terms, and submit your proposal within the indicated deadlines.
Partners with the following issues are not allowed to work:
- Bankruptcy notices, ongoing bankruptcy procedures, tax arrears
- No registration in USRLE
- Decisions on liquidation or reorganization
- Supplier’s legal address equals a residential unit
- Enforcement proceedings in process, arrest of property
- Inaccuracy of information about the legal address or the head/founder of the company
List of minimum qualification requirements in the field of occupational health, safety, and industrial safety
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Occupational safety issues:
- Training
- Responsibility
- Management system and instructions
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Fire safety issues:
- Training
- Responsibility
- Industrial safety certification:
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Work at height:
- Training
- Permit to work
- Responsibility
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Electrical safety:
- Personnel qualification
- Employee experience
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Information on road safety provision:
- Training
- Responsibility
- Initial and periodic medical examinations
- Personnel equipped with personal protective equipment
- Availability of special assessment of working conditions
- Voluntary certification of the environmental management system
Selection criteria are unique for each category. Preference is given to manufacturers or affiliated representatives. Proven experience in the declared category is welcomed. Should you have any further questions, you may send a request via the feedback form.
NLMK Group conducts audits of counterparties. Audit services are provided by Corporate Solutions Center LLC (CSC LLC) based on a service agreement between CSC LLC and NLMK Group.
During audits, the technological production processes (or service provision) are analyzed for safety and control, as well as the presence and sufficiency of control procedures and resources for timely and high-quality order fulfillment for NLMK Group.
Upon completion of the audit, a report is prepared and, after coordination with the responsible employees of NLMK Group, sent to the counterparty. The report states the compliance assessment of the counterparty with the requirements established by NLMK Group.
If non-compliances are detected that affect the quality, timing, or safety of the manufactured products and/or services rendered by the counterparty, the counterparty must provide the audit team with the results of remediating the identified issues and corrective actions aimed to prevent recurrence.
If you wish to cooperate with NLMK Group, to confirm compliance you may contact the NLMK Group (using the feedback form or information in the Contacts section) and offer to conduct an audit at your production site. Decisions on the need for the audit and payment terms are made together with NLMK Group representatives.
Based on the supplier’s performance for NLMK Group, an operational assessment (quarterly) and final assessment (annually) are conducted.
Evaluation parameters: delivery accuracy, quality of supplied material resources, quality of primary documentation, payment upon delivery, presence of joint initiatives, presence of certified QMS. Final results are posted in the supplier's SAP SRM personal account in the Management -> Evaluation Report section. Detailed information on scores can be obtained in the SAP SRM account or by following the link in the email notification received upon score update.
According to the total score, suppliers are assigned a class: A, B, C, or D.
Suppliers assigned class D must develop and implement a corrective action plan.
Attention, Contractors!
- A presentation containing general information about the organization (company details, types of work performed, available resources and production capacities, valid licenses and permits);
- Experience in construction and installation work (indicating the term and type of work, customer and object name);
Following review of the submitted information, the potential contractor will receive feedback.
NLMK follows clear and transparent procurement procedures that ensure fairness and effectiveness in the selection of counterparties. Below are the key provisions regulating participation in tenders and cooperation with suppliers and contractors.
Financial obligations of counterparties
The counterparty independently bears all expenses associated with preparing and submitting a tender application. NLMK does not reimburse and bears no responsibility for these expenses, regardless of the tender results.
Tender application requirements
The tender application must include a commercial offer, prepared strictly according to the requirements specified in the tender documentation. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the application being rejected.
Qualification requirements
Depending on the procurement category, the supplier is required to provide documentary evidence of their qualification. This may include certificates, licenses, attestations, and other documents specified in the technical assignment.
Confidentiality of the process
Information related to the review, evaluation, and comparison of tender applications, as well as recommendations for awarding the contract, is confidential. It must not be disclosed to suppliers or any third parties not involved in the process.
Requests for clarification from NLMK
The company reserves the right to request that procurement participants provide clarification regarding their bids. This helps to streamline the review and evaluation of submissions.
Requests for clarification from suppliers
The counterparty may request clarifications on the tender documentation no later than 2 (two) calendar days before the application deadline.
Application submission deadlines
Tender applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Meeting the submission deadline is a mandatory condition for tender participation.
Rejection of applications
The company may reject all applications at any stage prior to the announcement of the tender winner. This right is exercised if none of the proposals meet the requirements or interests of the company.
After reviewing and evaluating proposals, NLMK may negotiate with any of the tender participants on any aspects of their bids. This allows clarification of details and reaching the most favorable terms of cooperation.
Electronic Document Management (EDM): Advantages and Conditions of Use
Electronic Document Management (EDM) is a modern way to exchange legally significant documents in digital format. It fully replaces paper-based documents and allows for much faster approval, signing, and storage processes.
Why is it important?Using EDM reduces costs for printing, courier services, and archive storage, minimizes the risk of document loss, and simplifies their search. All transactions are conducted via certified operators and guarantee the legal significance of the documents in accordance with Russian law.
For whom?EDM is convenient for all companies working with documents: suppliers, contractors, and partners. It is a required step in digital business transformation and simplifies interaction with our company.
How to connect?Switching to EDM is a straightforward process consisting of several stages. We have prepared a step-by-step guide (a link to the file will be provided here), which will help you quickly connect and start benefiting from digital document management.
Advantages of EDM
- Time Saving Sending documents online takes just a few minutes, eliminating delays related to printing, signing, and courier delivery.
- Cost Reduction EDM helps reduce spending on paper, printing, delivery, and document archive storage.
- Legal Validity All electronic documents are signed with a qualified electronic signature (QES) and have full legal force under Russian law.
- Simplified Document Flow The digital format eliminates duplication, errors in data entry, and document loss, while making them easier to find and access.
- Fast Approvals Documents can be signed and exchanged at any time from anywhere in the world, speeding up collaboration processes.
- Eco-Friendliness Abandoning paper media reduces the environmental impact and promotes sustainable development.
- Easy Integration EDM easily integrates with most accounting systems (e.g., 1C, etc.), which makes work more convenient.
Work in EDM (for Russian Residents Only)
Exchange of documents that have legal force and are equivalent to originals in accordance with Russian law.
EDM is carried out via an operator system included in the Russian Federal Tax Service’s trust network. It is used to ensure the transition from paper-based legally significant documents (invoice, TOR-12, UTD) to electronic legally significant documents, i.e., files enhanced by a digital signature.
NLMK currently has agreements with EDM providers — Taxcom, Diadok Contour, SBIS Tensor, Korus Consulting. You can find detailed information about EDM operators on their official websites:
issgovernance.com
diadoc.ru
tensor.ru
esphere.ru
General information for partners
Guidelines on procurement procedures
Typical contract templates
Video instructions on OTiPB for contractors
Basic training for non-residents
Basic training for non-residents
Contacts and answers to questions
Partner Support Center
In order to effectively interact with NLMK Group suppliers of services and materials, the company has established a group of methodological support for counterparties – the HELP Desk. To promptly resolve issues related to registration, accreditation, qualifications and participation in procurement procedures, as well as in controversial situations that arise when interacting with NLMK Group units in the framework of selection procedures and procurement activities, you can contact us via the Feedback Form (Ask a question/Submit an offer)
If you need more information about intra-group procedures, order a callback through the feedback form. Our company's specialist will contact you, answer all your questions, and, if necessary, help you choose the right purchase category.
Tech service B2B Altis support
Tech service SAP SRM support
8 800 101-81-68
from 09:00 to 17:00 Moscow time (free of charge for calls in Russia)
+7 (4742) 444-100
for calls from abroad
EDO Technical Support Services
Technical issues of using SAP SRM-SUS system
8 800 101-81-68
from 09:00 to 17:00 Moscow time (free of charge for calls in Russia)
NLMK Group Procurement Services Contacts
Management
NLMK Representative Office in Moscow
Director of Investment and Operational Procurement
Vladimir Tarakanov
Director of the Center for Corporate Solutions LLC (back office, middle office support)
Elena Lizogub
Director of Procurement Development and Support
Andrey Arutyunov
Director of the Directorate for Procurement of Raw Materials Categories
Oleg Molchanov
Head of the Service Procurement Department (direction of procurement of construction, installation and commissioning works)
Ivan Bulashov
Head of the Service Procurement Department (direction of procurement of repair services)
Tatiana Yakushkina
Head of the Service Procurement Department (the direction of procurement of direct services)
Boris Gabyshev
Head of the Service Procurement Department (direction of procurement of IT services)
Denis Chechenev
Head of the Inventory Management Department
Victor Remizov
Contacts in NLMK Group companies
Stoilensky Beneficiation Plant
VIZ Steel
Head, Material and Technical Procurement Department
Sergey Zdobnikov
Altai Koks
Head, Material and Technical Procurement Department
Milana Veber
Corporate Solutions Center LLC
(supplier audit issues)
Head, External Contractor Relations Unit
Alexey Kosukhin
Answers to questions
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 or higher should be installed.
Note: Google Chrome browser can also be used.
Browser settings:
- Pop-up blocking must be disabled.
If you have any additional questions, you can contact us via the feedback form or the "virtual assistant" on the corporate website (QUBO).
If you have never been a business partner of NLMK Group companies, you need to register by filling out the registration form. After your registration is confirmed, you will receive an e-mail with a URL-link to your account, temporary login and password. The temporary login and password will expire in 2 weeks. After the initial login you need to set a permanent password and login.
Those suppliers, who have already been the business partners of NLMK Group, shall send information on the contact persons on the company's letterhead to the support service address: srm@nlmk.com, specifying the e-mail to which the messages and invitations to bidding procedures should be sent.
If you have any additional questions, you can contact us via the feedback form.
To change/ recover your password, follow the link to log in to your personal account in SAP SRM https://srm.nlmk.ru/irj/portal and click the "Forgot Password" button. When the window for password recovery pops up, select the type of recovery - by e-mail or login from the SAP SRM system - and click Submit. You will receive an email notification with the subject "Restore access to NLMK SRM system", which will contain a navigation link (the link is valid only once). When you click on the link, another window opens where you need to enter a new password, re-enter the new password and confirm it. After you perform these steps, the password will be updated.
When completing the registration form, please select in the "Location" field NLMK Group's site to which you would like to supply materials/provide services. If you are willing to supply materials to all sites of NLMK Group, please select the "NLMK Group" option. Please note that the responsible procurement specialist may decline your category questionnaire if the product categories or the data are incorrect or inaccurate.
If you have any additional questions, you can contact us via the feedback form.
Correct operation requires:
Operating system:
• Microsoft Windows 8 or 8.1
• Microsoft Windows 10
• Microsoft Windows 11
• Astra Linux
• Red OS
• ALT Linux
Browser (latest stable version):
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Yandex.Browser
• Atom.
Note: Make sure the browser settings have the cookies, JavaScript, and ActiveX enabled, pop-up windows enabled, and compatibility mode disabled,
• Electronic signature software;
• Individual e-mail inbox;
• Archiving application to handle files in zip, rar, and 7z formats (for example, 7-Zip);
• Office suite (for example, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice);
• PDF reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader).
The user name (login) is displayed in the main web-page menu on the right. If you have any further questions, please refer to the B2B platform help section.
Accreditation is fully automated and is initiated by filling in and submitting the accreditation questionnaire. A notification is sent when the Accredited status is granted. If the outcome is negative, NLMK reserves the right to not inform the supplier or provide any justification.
In order to add a new product category to the supplier's master data, you should choose a functional area or company from the list in the “Product Category” tab and then click “Add product categories”. Choose a category from the list and click “OK”. You will then receive category questionnaires for the newly added categories. Please note that pre-qualification after accreditation for categories F01, F02, F04, F08, F09, F12, F13, F14, F16, F18, F19, F20, F21, F24, F25, F27, F28, F29, F37, F38, F17, F11 has been moved to the new system B2B Altis.
The following data can be changed in your account under the tabs “Company” and “Employees”:
Attach new appendices (documents),
Change company data,
Upload certificates,
Create a new contact person,
Change contact person details.
For detailed procedures of updating the information, see the Managing Supplier Data section of the Supplier Qualification Manual.
Please refer to the B2B platform help section.
NLMK conducts pre-qualification of suppliers for the purposes of market analysis and onboarding new partners in various product groups. Please note that the procedure is not a tender. Qualified participants will start receiving invitations to tender in future procurement procedures under their categories. To qualify by category (apply for qualification), the supplier need to access the link to the corresponding questionnaire, fill it out and send it for approval. NLMK’s category manager will review the application and decide on it within five business days. If there are any comments, the questionnaire will be returned to the supplier for revision.
The system will send you a notification following the completion of the qualification check, (both positive pass and negative rejection are notified).
Information on planned tender procedures is posted annually on NLMK Group's official website in the section "For Suppliers".
In case you have any additional questions, you have the possibility to contact us via the feedback form srm@nlmk.com.
You will receive an invitation to participate in a tender to your e-mail. Please be advised that the deadline for submitting offers must be carefully adhered to. After this date, the offers will not be accepted.
In case you have any additional questions, you have the possibility to contact us via the feedback form.
The tender can only be extended until the deadline for submission of offers. To do this, please contact the tender manager.
The price in the offer is always given without VAT.
The offer must be submitted in the currency of the tender if the tender manager did not specify additionally the list of currencies in which the offer can be submitted. To edit the currency, please do the following:
- Option 1: Choose from the list of currencies that are offered in the tender on the "Tender information" tab.
- Option 2: If on the "Tender information" tab there is no currency you want to submit your offer in, please contact the tender manager to request an additional currency to be added and re-publish the tender.
Please remember that Residents can submit offers in rubles or dollar equivalents (UE). Non-residents can submit offers only in foreign currency (EUR, USD, etc.)
When receiving a proposal, it is necessary to carefully study the information indicated in the "Location" column.
See the "Notes and Applications" tab for more information about the tender and the material. If the person responsible for the tender has set the "Closed" status (manually), the supplier will not receive the notification on the change of the status, and will not be able to find the closed tender in its personal account list.
Registration of suppliers in SAP SRM
Registration of suppliers in B2B
Update account information section
Supplier qualification section
Participation in procurement procedures
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