Due diligence on a new or existing vendor before you sign a contract, extend credit terms, or become dependent on their supply.
Procurement teams routinely onboard vendors on the strength of a proposal, a set of references chosen by the vendor itself, and a standard compliance questionnaire the vendor completed unverified. None of that reliably surfaces financial instability, undisclosed subcontracting, ownership connected to a competitor, or a pattern of disputes with previous clients, the exact issues that surface later as delivery failures, disputes, or reputational exposure by association. This becomes more consequential, not less, the more operationally critical the vendor is: a single supplier failure further down the chain can halt delivery for an organisation that never assessed it directly.
A structured vendor due diligence report covering financial stability, corporate structure and ownership, litigation and dispute history, and independently verified trading history, delivered with sourced findings and a clear risk rating.
Financial stability indicators from filed accounts and credit data
Ownership structure, including connections to competitors or conflicts of interest
Litigation, insolvency and regulatory history
Independent verification of claimed trading relationships and capacity
Undisclosed subcontracting arrangements affecting delivery risk
Corporate registry and financial filing analysis, court record searches, adverse media screening, and independent verification of vendor claims against third-party sources, with every finding verified by a named analyst before it is reported.
No, it supplements it. The questionnaire captures what a vendor discloses about itself. This report independently verifies the parts of that picture that carry the most risk if wrong.
Yes. It is commonly instructed when a vendor becomes critical to your supply chain, when a contract renewal is approaching, or when something about an existing relationship raises a concern.
Findings are reported factually with sources, so you can weigh the risk against the decision in front of you, whether that is proceeding with additional safeguards, renegotiating terms, or not proceeding at all.
Yes, where subcontracting is material to delivery. Undisclosed subcontracting is one of the more common findings in this type of review, and can be scoped in from the outset if you already suspect it.
Every enquiry is reviewed by an analyst and routed to a scoping call, a fixed fee is confirmed in writing before any work begins.