Repetition of "to provide"

Hi, Tony,

You provide somebody with something.

To avoid repeating "provide," in the second part of the sentence you can use "render" or "supply (services)."

@Tony C posted:

Thank you for the opportunity to provide you our fee proposal to provide legal and administrative services to your company.

@Gustavo, Co-Moderator posted:

You provide somebody with something.

Amen, Gustavo. It's a pleasure to see someone stand up for that "with" in the "provide" complementation pattern. It always frustrates me to find it missing.

@Gustavo, Co-Moderator posted:

To avoid repeating "provide," in the second part of the sentence you can use "render" or "supply (services)."

I agree. Another thing that I would do is change the infinitive construction to a "for V-ing" construction, since we are talking about proposing fees for services (proposing to be paid for them) rather than proposing to do the services.

• We are grateful for this opportunity to provide you with our fee proposal for rendering legal and administrative services to your company.