Lured by the expectation of lucrative government contracts, an ever-increasing number of engineering companies and consultancies (ECCs) from all over the world are operating in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Not all of these ECCs, however, are in a position to deliver services which meet industry quality standards: the Saudi Arabian Council of Engineers claims that, last year alone, there were approximately 30,000 engineers working in KSA without appropriate - or, worse, with doctored - qualification certificates. In this article, we examine a new law in KSA aimed at addressing these issues.