General Contracting and Building Construction

Yes. Safari Qatar Services Company holds Commercial Registration 48259, established 27 December 2010, and Commercial Licence 201984, valid to 1 November 2027, with general contracting recorded under activity 452000 and eleven building-type activities in the 4100xx range. Both records sit with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. We issue a certified commercial register extract, commercial licence, tax card, establishment card and Qatar Chamber membership certificate with every prequalification pack, so the codes on this page can be checked line by line.

We build; we do not design. Architectural, structural and MEP design and the engineer's supervision role are separately regulated in Qatar and sit with licensed consultancy practices. We work to the consultant's approved drawings and specification, produce shop and coordination drawings for approval, and where a design-and-build package is required we carry the design through a licensed consultant who is named in the contract, so the responsibility line is clear to the employer from day one.

The licensed scope runs from a single villa under 410011 to a multi-storey commercial, industrial or institutional building, and the eleven building-type codes on the register mark the outer edge of what we may contract for at all. The practical limit on any contractor is capacity rather than licence, and capacity is judged against a specific job: send the drawings, the bill of quantities and the required completion date, and we will tell you at enquiry stage whether we can resource it. If we cannot, you hear that at enquiry stage rather than in week twelve.

Yes. Cold stores and warehouses fall under activity 410025, commercial and tourism buildings. The building scope covers the insulated panel envelope, vapour sealing, floor heave protection, the refrigeration plant room, dock levellers and cold-room door sets; the refrigeration package itself is installed and commissioned by specialist subcontractors under our management. Note that licensing the completed facility as a food storage establishment is the operator's obligation with the Ministry of Public Health and the municipality — we build to that requirement and hand over the commissioning records the licensing file needs.

We handle them where the contract puts them with the contractor. Government transaction clearing is a licensed activity on our own register under 8299031, so the building permit, Civil Defence submission, Kahramaa applications, road opening permits, labour quota, work permits and gate passes are prepared and filed by our own team on the same programme as the works, not subcontracted to a broker and then chased.

Yes. Building materials trade and retail sale are separately recorded on our register under 4752801 / 475281, so we can supply another contractor, a consultant or a facility owner directly. Supply is made against your material approval — manufacturer, grade, standard, batch or heat number and test certificate — with the documentation delivered alongside the material.

No. Safari Qatar Services Company holds no ISO certification of any kind, and nothing on this site borrows the language of a standard we are not audited against. What we run instead is written down and auditable: an inspection and test plan agreed with the consultant before work starts, signed inspection requests at every hold point, concrete and material records traceable to the element they belong to, non-conformances closed in writing, and the HSE and workforce records set out in the records section above. If a certified management system is a mandatory condition of your tender, we will say so at enquiry stage rather than let you find out at evaluation.

No. Supplying manpower to another employer is a separately licensed activity in Qatar, requires a Ministry of Labour licence, and is not an activity on Commercial Registration 48259. Enquiries of that kind are routed to our sister company, Allive Team Services — catering and manpower — and are contracted in that company's name against its own registration and licence. What we do provide under this registration is a complete works package delivered by our own supervision and our own subcontract chain.

Safari Qatar Services Company signs for construction, building materials, offshore and marine works, heavy transport and government transaction services. Allive Team Services signs for catering, camp services and manpower. Where a client wants one interface we will say in the offer which entity holds the head contract and which delivers each scope as a named subcontractor, because operators hold the main contractor accountable for its subcontractors' performance and will read that structure closely.

Access to the industrial cities is by client sponsorship. Work there requires gate passes for every person and vehicle, site-specific safety induction, permit-to-work competence, and compliance with the operator's own HSE standard — which for QatarEnergy contracts means a contract HSE plan submitted with the tender, appointed and interviewed HSE officers, a pre-mobilisation equipment inspection and a work commencement certificate before anything starts. Passes are raised per contract, per person and per vehicle by the sponsoring client, so we programme and price for that gate rather than treat it as an administrative formality.

Contractors' all-risks and third-party liability cover, workmen's compensation, and where the contract requires them a performance bond and an advance payment guarantee issued through a bank in Qatar. Limits, the insurer and the issuing bank are placed against the individual contract and confirmed in the offer, and certificates of the cover in force are issued before mobilisation.

Two different clocks, and we quote them separately rather than blend them. Site establishment and mobilisation of a workforce already in Qatar with valid permits and inductions is measured in days. Recruiting from overseas is measured in weeks, because the visa cycle runs from work-permit quota through Qatar Visa Centre biometrics, medical and contract signing to arrival, medical, fingerprinting and Qatar ID. Both are quoted as dates counted from your award date in the mobilisation programme attached to the offer, not as one number with the visa cycle hidden inside it.

Send the drawings, the bill of quantities, the specification and the required completion date. We will come back first with the questions that change the price, then with a priced bill, a programme and a method statement. If you need our prequalification pack before that, it is issued on request and contains the registration documents, insurance certificates, organisation chart, plant list and project references.