Procurement consulting · Construction

Stop losing money on what you buy.

Invenire helps growing electrical and mechanical contractors build the purchasing systems that keep scope creep, un-leveled bids, and price swings from quietly eating your margin.

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Where the money goes

Margin rarely leaks on the big decisions. It leaks in the buying no one owned — a vague scope, a verbal order, a bid never truly compared.

28%

The average overrun

Nine of ten projects finish over budget. Un-owned purchasing is a leading cause.

10–15%

Lost to scope leak

When bids aren't leveled, the "cheaper" one just excluded what the other included.

~28%

Tariff on materials

Copper, steel, and gear swing hard. Without a plan, that lands on you.

How I help

Three ways to work together

Most firms start small, prove the value in dollars, then decide how far to take it.

The Diagnostic

Fixed fee · 2–3 weeks · start here

A fast look at where your margin is leaking — with a dollar figure on each fix.

  • Spend mapped by category
  • Recent bids reviewed
  • Prioritized savings list
  • Quick wins you own

The Build

Project · scoped from the diagnostic

I stand up the purchasing system and leave it running in your hands.

  • Scope & bid-leveling templates
  • Supplier scorecards
  • Preferred-vendor program
  • Approvals & spend tracking

Fractional Lead

Monthly retainer · ongoing

Part-time procurement leadership — accountable to the outcome, not just a report.

  • Sourcing on live jobs
  • Supplier negotiation
  • Committed-cost oversight
  • Keeping the system tight
What it looks like

Clear steps, fast

A short call

Twenty minutes on where buying hurts. No pitch.

The diagnostic

I find the leak and put a number on it.

We build

Templates and controls around how your team really works.

You keep it

Your people run it. I stay on only if it earns its keep.

Track record

Systems built where the stakes were real

Construction · Public

County construction procure-to-pay

Run purchasing for a Construction & Property Management division and designed the plan to grow it into a full unit.

Fleet · Sourcing

Supplier scoring matrix

Built the scoring matrix and ran a fleet buy end to end — six-figure savings, fully documented.

Governance

Scorecards & SOP library

Made supplier performance measurable and the process repeatable.

Change · Rollout

System for 300+ users

Turned scattered files into one source of truth people actually used.

About

Invenire

Invenire is led by Michelle Avila, a procurement specialist with nearly nine years across public-sector construction, healthcare, automotive, and education. The name is Latin — to find, to discover — the root of the word inventory.

The idea is simple: find the leak, build the system, and hand you something your team can run without me. Growing contractors don't need a six-figure procurement executive. They need someone who has built these systems before to build one for them — properly, once.

~9 years in procurement & project coordination · CPPB in progress · Rutgers Supply Chain Certificate
Oracle · Jaggaer · CityWorks · OPUS · SharePoint · bid leveling · supplier scorecards · SOPs

Find out what your buying is really costing you.

A 20-minute call, no pitch. If there's a leak worth fixing, I'll tell you — and if there isn't, I'll tell you that too.

Email michelle@invenireconsulting.com