Construction ERP software for contractors in Riyadh
ERP Infra tracks purchase, stock, labour, machinery and cost on every site, and flags what does not add up the same day. Below is what is being built in Riyadh and where projects there tend to lose money.
Construction in Riyadh, in brief
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Riyadh Metro is a six-line, 176 km driverless network with 85 stations, built at about US$23 billion and opened in phases from December 2024 to January 2025.
Source: Global Construction Review -
In January 2026 the Royal Commission for Riyadh City awarded a US$2.75 billion design-and-build contract, led by Webuild, for an 8.4 km Red Line extension west from King Saud University to the Diriyah Gate area, with five new stations and about six years to complete.
Source: Railway Gazette International, 2026 -
As of July 2023 MEED listed Diriyah Gate at 7.1 million square metres with US$12.6 billion in execution, and King Salman Park at over 16 square kilometres in three phases with more than US$5 billion in execution.
Source: MEED, 2023 -
Turner & Townsend reports that Saudi Arabia's infrastructure programme is competing for skilled labour and contractor capacity across the Gulf, which raises costs for projects in the region.
Source: Turner & Townsend, 2025
The work that dominates
- metro rail
- mixed-use giga-projects
- large urban parks
- heritage and tourism districts
Where Riyadh projects tend to lose money
Budget, committed and actual, per site, every day.
Consortium-led design-and-build contracts such as the US$2.75 billion Red Line extension run six years, a long window for scope and cost drift.
How it worksAttendance locked on submit. Bills computed from it.
Regional competition for skilled labour makes crew counts, subcontractor measurements and bills harder to control.
How it worksThe daily report writes itself, the same evening.
Several large programmes run at once across Diriyah Gate, King Salman Park and the metro, each needing site-level reporting.
How it worksFigures in the screens above are sample data.
Terms used on Riyadh sites
The words differ from place to place; the records behind them are the same.
- IPC (interim payment certificate)
- The certificate that fixes how much the contractor is paid for work done to date.
- Variation order
- A written instruction that changes scope, price or time.
- Etimad
- The government procurement and payment portal used for public tenders and contracts.
- Nitaqat
- The Saudization quota system that sets how many Saudi nationals a contractor must employ.
- Balady
- The municipal platform for building permits and licences.
Questions from Riyadh
- Can contractors in Riyadh use ERP Infra?
- Yes. ERP Infra is web-based: office staff use it in a browser and site staff in a phone browser, so it can be used on projects in Riyadh. Demos and onboarding are done online by the Flip Retail team.
- Does ERP Infra have an office in Riyadh?
- No. ERP Infra is made by Flip Retail, based in Jaipur, India. Work with companies in Riyadh is done remotely, starting with a one-month pilot on one project.
- What should a construction company in Riyadh check before choosing an ERP?
- Check that it is organised by project and site, that site staff can use it on a phone, and that it can show the same evening what a site cost and whether material used matched the work done. Then ask for a pilot on one of your own projects before committing.
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