Procurement is often seen as a gatekeeper.But the real power sitting in our hands is something far bigger:the ability to predict the future.Think about it.Every project is a set of unknowns.Timelines, risks, delivery challenges, cost pressures—nobody has the full picture at the start.But the right procurement process can change that.When you design your RFP to reveal true expertise, you’re not just comparing vendors.You’re asking them to show you what your project will actually look like in delivery.What risks you’ll face.How they’ll handle them.What the path to success will be—step by step.That’s not admin work.That’s foresight.The tragedy is, most procurement processes bury this predictive power under 50-page templates, generic questions, and recycled evaluation criteria.Instead of surfacing clarity, we drown in noise.But if you shift the focus—if you deliberately ask the kind of questions that only experts can answer—you turn procurement into a future-making function.Not just choosing a supplier, but revealing what the outcome of your project will be before the contract is even signed.That’s the level of confidence stakeholders actually want from us.And that’s the difference between procurement as a bottleneck… and procurement as a success maker.