Bramwell Associates

Buying equipment you will run for twenty years

We run vendor selection for mid-market manufacturers — writing the specification, building the shortlist, managing the RFP, and sitting on your side of the table at award.

Services

Three things, done properly

Specification

Turning "we need a new line" into a document a supplier can quote against and an engineer can accept against. Most projects go wrong here.

Vendor shortlist & RFP

Market scan, capability screening, structured RFP, and a scored comparison you can put in front of a board without defending the arithmetic.

Award & handover

Commercial review, acceptance criteria tied back to the specification, and a handover pack your maintenance team will still understand in year eight.

Sectors

Where we have done this before

We stay inside process and discrete manufacturing. Outside these sectors we will say so and point you at someone who knows the equipment better than we do.

Food & beverageFilling, packing, CIP systems
Plastics & packagingExtrusion, thermoforming, converting
Metal fabricationPress, laser, finishing lines
Building productsBatching, curing, handling
Contract electronicsSMT lines, test and inspection
Cold storage & logisticsRefrigeration, racking, WMS

Independence

How we get paid

A day rate or a fixed project fee, invoiced to you. That is the whole model.

We take no commission, referral fee, rebate, or marketing money from any supplier, and we do not resell equipment. If a vendor offers, we tell you they offered.

The reason is practical rather than principled: a shortlist is only worth paying for if the person who built it had no reason to prefer one name on it.

Start with the problem

Tell us what the equipment has to do and when it has to be running. We will tell you whether the timeline is real.

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