Manara Media
Company Profiles

Company profiles for contracting companies

Built for the committee that reads it, not the client who commissions it.

Recent company profile work

Self-initiated concept studies. The profile spreads are real documents, built to the standard described below — they were simply commissioned by us rather than by a client.

Apex Contracting — Construction concept study

Apex Contracting

Construction

Company Profiles pricing

Published, not quoted. Nothing is charged when you start — you see the price before you commit to anything.

Company Profile/Brochure - 4 pages

A short profile at AED 15 per page.

AED 60

Delivered in 1 day

  • 4 designed pages
  • Your copy, laid out
  • Print-ready PDF
  • Digital PDF for email
  • 1 revision

Company Profile/Brochure - 8 pages

Enough to introduce the company properly.

AED 160

Delivered in 1 day

  • 8 designed pages
  • Professional copywriting
  • Stock imagery included
  • Print-ready PDF
  • Digital PDF for email
  • 2 revisions
Most chosen

Company Profile/Brochure - 12 pages

Tender-ready, with room for projects and credentials.

AED 200AED 320

Delivered in 1-2 days

  • 12 designed pages
  • Professional copywriting
  • Project and service sections
  • Stock imagery included
  • Print-ready and digital PDF
  • Unlimited revisions

Bilingual Profile (English + Arabic)

Add a properly typeset Arabic version.

AED 600

Delivered in +1 week

  • Full Arabic translation
  • Right-to-left layout
  • Arabic typography done properly
  • Separate Arabic PDF

See every price on one page — logos, profiles, websites, collateral and monthly work.

A contractor's company profile has one job: to survive prequalification. It is read by a procurement officer or a tender committee whose task is to reduce a long list to a short one, and who is looking for a reason to set yours aside.

That reader is not persuaded by a mission statement. They are checking whether your trade licence activity covers the work being tendered, whether you have completed something comparable, whether your approvals are current, and whether you will still be solvent at handover.

So the document is structured around those checks. The same information, in the order the reader looks for it, is the difference between a profile that gets you to the next round and one that gets skimmed.

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Fixed prices, shown before you commit — nothing is charged up front.

What you get

  • Profile structured to the order a prequalification form asks in
  • Project credential pages you can extend as jobs complete
  • Print-ready artwork and a compressed PDF that survives a tender portal upload limit
  • Bilingual English and Arabic where the submission requires it
  • Editable source, so a new project is added in an afternoon rather than re-commissioned

Best suited to

  • — Contractors and subcontractors bidding for work in the UAE
  • — Fit-out, MEP, civil and specialist trade companies registering with main contractors
  • — Firms whose current profile is a slide deck exported to PDF

What goes in it

The sections that matter for this sector, in the order the reader looks for them.

Licence and legal standing, at the front

Trade licence number, issuing authority, the activities listed on the licence, year established and registered address — on an early page, not buried at the back. A committee that cannot confirm you are licensed for the work stops reading there.

Project credentials with scope, not logos

Each project given its client, location, scope, contract value band where you are permitted to state it, duration and your role — main contractor, subcontractor, supplier. A wall of client logos proves nothing that a committee can verify.

Approvals, certifications and memberships

Municipality and authority approvals, civil defence registration, ISO certifications and trade body memberships, each with its number and validity. Only what is genuinely held — an unverifiable claim on a tender document is worse than a gap.

Health, safety, quality and environment

A dedicated section, because most UAE prequalification forms ask for one. Policy statements, the person responsible, incident record keeping and any HSE certification. This is the section most SME contractor profiles leave out entirely.

Plant, equipment and manpower

What you own, what you hire, and how many people you can put on site by trade. Capacity is the question behind every tender: not whether you can do the work, but whether you can do it at this size, now.

Organisation chart and key personnel

Named site management with qualifications and years of experience. Tender committees read this to judge whether the company is a structure or a founder with a phone.

Common questions

How long should a contracting company profile be?
Long enough to carry the credentials and no longer. Most contractor profiles run longer than a general SME profile because project pages and approvals take room — the constraint is usually the tender portal's file size limit, not the page count.
We have no completed projects yet. Is a profile still worth it?
Yes, but it should be honest about it. A new contractor's profile leans on the licence, the team's prior experience named as individuals rather than as company work, plant and capacity, and approvals. Inventing projects is the one mistake that ends a supplier relationship permanently.
Do you need the Arabic version as well?
Government and semi-government submissions often ask for Arabic, and some main contractors do. It is safer to have it, and it is far cheaper produced alongside the English version than retrofitted later.
Can you work from our existing documents?
Yes — licence, previous profile, project photographs, certificates and whatever the team has. Where a section is missing we interview you and write it, rather than leaving a gap for you to fill in later.

Something not answered here? Ask us directly — or email hello@manaramedia.ae.

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