Case Study: Higher Colleges of Technology achieves end-to-end procurement automation with Cloudia

Procurement process automation provides a competitive edge and additional value for HCT

The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), the largest applied higher education institution in the UAE, faced a significant challenge in accelerating its digital procurement transformation. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need to enable remote work and support business continuity within a week, a major hurdle for its previously manual processes. To address this, HCT partnered with vendor Cloudia to implement a digital sourcing system.

Cloudia excelled by rapidly implementing a basic version of its system within a month, which HCT then expanded into a holistic, end-to-end automated solution. The results were transformative; HCT achieved the UAE government's only fully automated Procurement Committee system, integrated its planning and document management, and gained greater control and visibility with a new three-year strategic plan. The partnership with Cloudia made HCT's procurement processes significantly more efficient and effective.

Higher Colleges of Technology

Mahmoud Al Alawi

Director of Procurement & Contracts