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PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN

Supplier due diligence

Verify a supplier list is real, active and still holds what it claimed at onboarding.

A lapsed certification found by an auditor rather than by you is a different conversation entirely.

A SWEEP ON THIS BRIEF

7 FOUND2 KEPT5 REJECTED
  • Active, certification current
  • Register + issuer confirmed
  • ISO expired 7 months ago
  • Entity dissolved
  • In administration
  • Claim only on own site
  • Cert number unissued

2 survived. The other 5 arrive too, each with the reason it failed.

The boundary.

Two answers define this brief. The second one is where the work is, and it is the question most teams never get asked.

WHAT COUNTS

Suppliers whose legal entity, trading status and certifications can be confirmed against a register or issuing body today.

WHAT IS RULED OUT

Entities dissolved or in administration. Certifications past expiry. Any claim that exists only on the supplier's own website.

What a surviving row carries.

Every field below is either sourced or blank. Nothing on this list is inferred to fill a gap.

01

Entity status from the register, with the date read

02

Certification number, issuer and expiry

03

Ownership where the register publishes it

And one that did not make it.

Found, researched, thrown out — and sent to you anyway, with the reason. This is the half a data vendor never shows.

A supplier still listed as approved

ISO certification expired 7 months ago. The supplier's own site still displays the badge.