Working library
Resources for industrial procurement from China
Start with the file or decision in front of you: a BOQ, supplier name, quotation, FAT protocol, inspection scope or document pack. The tools below help a buyer define the next check and keep the evidence usable.
Featured working tools
Seven practical starting points. Printable capability and method documents remain on the downloads page.
Prepare a BOQ or specification
Structure the scope so supplier offers remain comparable and testable.
Open toolSupplier due-diligence checklist
Check legal identity, capability, documents and unresolved evidence before award.
Open toolSupplier comparison matrix
Normalise scope, exclusions, standards, schedule and commercial terms.
Open toolFAT checklist builder
Build an equipment-specific factory acceptance test checklist.
Open toolFactory acceptance test checklist
Record readiness, tests, measured results, findings and retest evidence.
Open toolPre-shipment inspection checklist
Check identity, quantity, condition, packing and shipment evidence.
Open toolTechnical clarification log
Keep questions, responses, acceptance criteria and closure evidence traceable.
Open toolAll resources by buyer stage
Each published guide appears once in this index. Featured cards above are recommendations drawn from the same library.
Before award and supplier selection
Define the requirement, verify the supplier and compare offers on one basis.
- Prepare a BOQ or specification
- China supplier qualification
- Verify a Chinese supplier
- Verify a Chinese medical device manufacturer
- Documents to request from a manufacturer
- Manufacturer or trading company?
- Quotation red flags
- Compare supplier offers
- Supplier due-diligence checklist
- Before you pay a Chinese supplier
- Factory audit checklist
- Factory visit checklist
- Supplier visit report
- Supplier comparison matrix
- Supplier meetings and sample review
Factory execution and shipment release
Plan factory tests, inspect the finished order and preserve the buyer’s decision record.
- Factory acceptance testing
- What is a factory acceptance test?
- FAT versus SAT
- FAT certificate
- FAT report
- Partial-discharge testing during FAT
- Independent FAT attendance
- Factory acceptance test checklist
- FAT checklist builder
- Pre-shipment inspection checklist
- Inspection or accountable supply?
- Inspection companies in China, by job
- AQL sampling explained
- FAT and PSI defect-pattern control guide
Commercial control and project delivery
Choose the contracting route, protect leverage and define how the order is managed.
Documents and logistics
Control revisions, supplier files, conformity evidence and multi-supplier shipments.
Materials and regional guides
Apply the control method to specific packages and destination contexts.
- China sourcing for African projects
- Importing construction materials from China
- Sourcing cleanroom and facility systems
- Buying sterile medical disposables from China
- Buying medical equipment from China
- Buying an injection mould from China
- Buying medium-voltage switchgear from China
- Buying distribution transformers from China
- Buying ring main units and compact substations from China
- Buying LV switchboards from China
- Buying SF6-free switchgear from China
- Estimating an LV/MV package from China
Have a live procurement file?
Send the BOQ, specification or supplier quotation. Sinospect acknowledges the request within one business day and, when the file is sufficient, provides an initial written assessment within two business days.
Send the project file