Introducing Verified Supplier: Risk Management Verification Tailored to Material Suppliers?
Verified Supplier is a new risk management verification service from CHAS. We designed Verified Supplier as a tailored solution for material suppliers, helping you achieve and demonstrate supply chain compliance.
Verified Supplier provides material suppliers with a streamlined and comprehensive risk management solution, allowing you to showcase your compliance with international standards, regulatory controls and supply chain best practices.
With Verified Supplier, you can verify your financial, legal and ethical credentials, helping you stand out from the competition and win more work with potential clients.
Why Should Material Suppliers Get Verified?
The rapidly evolving nature of supply chain risks puts pressure on clients (buyers) to achieve and maintain the highest standards in health and safety, environmental sustainability, quality and supply chain integrity.
This is further compounded by factors such as inflation and shortages. The construction industry, for example, saw the material price index for building materials rise by 21.5% year-over-year in December 2021. This means that clients face the increasing challenge of finding compliant and reliable material suppliers to fulfil their supply chain requirements.
Verified Supplier will help you showcase your qualifications to potential clients in the UK, making it easier and faster for buying organisations to pre-qualify you for supply chain contracts.
Our verification process will help you:
- Highlight your compliance with legislation: Highlight your commitment to regulations such as UK GDPR, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Environment Act 2021 and Equality Act 2010, among others.
- Save time and avoid PQQ duplication: Save time and money from duplication of pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQs). With CHAS, you can achieve and renew your verification under one roof.
- Improve your bid effectiveness: Leverage your verified status to build your reputation and submit stronger bids that lead to more work opportunities.
- Connect with over 2,000 CHAS clients: Once you’ve achieved verification, we will list your business profile on the CHAS Client Portal, which over 2,000 use to look for suitably qualified material suppliers.
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Join Verified Supplier To Access Exclusive Member Benefits
Besides getting access to our industry-leading verifications, Verified Suppliers can also take advantage of CHAS’s growing bank of exclusive member benefits.
We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure that our strategic partnerships with a network of trade organisations and third-party businesses can provide all CHAS-affiliated contractors and material suppliers with a valuable experience.
Benefits for Verified Suppliers include:
- Trade discounts: Get amazing discounts on training courses, business resources, and tool and equipment rentals.
- FREE products and services: Grow your business with free insurance quotes, legal advice and employee well-being support.
- Third-party benefits: Find great deals on fuel, business tools and online directory memberships from our partner network of businesses and vendors.
Manage Your Verification On My CHAS
But that’s not all. We’ve also simplified the process of achieving verification with My CHAS — our easy-to-use dashboard for all your compliance and risk management need.
With My CHAS, you can:
- Register to join Verified Supplier
- Monitor your verification status and renewal/expiration date.
- Get a complete overview of your verification and compliance records.
- Upload and access your verification documents.
- Claim your exclusive member benefits.
- Update your verification progress and download certificates.
My CHAS has everything you need to manage your entire verification journey online.
How To Become A Verified Supplier
Our verification process is simple and streamlined, appraising nine areas of risk management:
- Health and safety: We’ll verify whether you have a health and safety policy or certification with standards such as Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) or ISO 45001.
- Financial: Do you have protocols for preventing financial risks?
- Insurance: Does your business have sufficient insurance coverage to protect yourself and potential clients from mistakes, accidents and mistakes?
- Environmental: We’ll check if you have taken the necessary steps to reduce your environmental impact.
- Quality: We’ll verify your measures to ensure any materials supplied to clients meet stringent quality standards.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): Does your company treat everyone fairly and work to prevent workplace discrimination?
- Modern Slavery: We’ll confirm whether your organisation is actively preventing incidents of modern slavery and human trafficking.
- Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR): CHAS will verify your corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy and actions to be more socially responsible.
- Information Security: You will need to demonstrate that your company has cyber security protocols in place to protect personal data in line with UK GDPR guidelines.
The Verified Supplier Verification Process
Wondering how to achieve verification? Here’s a quick overview of the process:
Step 1: Register On My CHAS
Head to My CHAS to begin the registration process.
Step 2: Tell Us About Your Business
Next, we’ll ask you to provide information about your company, such as:
- Your company name and address
- Your primary representative’s contact information
- Your corporate email address and phone number
- Your number of employees.
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We’ll also ask you to set up a strong password to keep your My CHAS profile safe.
Step 3: Choose Your Pricing Tier
Verified Supplier pricing starts at £79.00 (plus a variable one-off joining fee starting at £49) and is based on your number of employees.
Step 4: Complete Your Verifications
We’ll then ask you to upload documents and policies demonstrating your compliance with supply chain standards.
Examples of supporting evidence to submit include:
- Health and safety policy
- Evidence of risk assessments and method statements
- Records of on-site health and safety inspections
- Proof of training and certification
- Construction phase plans.
Step 5: Our Award-Winning Team Will Review Your Application
Our team will review the information you provided within 48 hours* of submitting your application.
Your assessor will let you know as soon as possible whether or not your application was successful. If you fail to achieve verification, don’t worry. CHAS will guide you on the next steps to take to reapply successfully.
*For fast-tracked applications. Terms and conditions apply.
Step 6: Your Verification Is Successful – You Are Now A CHAS Verified Supplier!
Congratulations, you’ve achieved Verified Supplier status and have begun your journey towards upholding best practices and building and maintaining stronger relationships with clients.
How Much Will It Cost To Become A Verified Supplier?
As mentioned earlier, Verified Supplier pricing is based on your number of employees.
It’s Time To Get Verified
Verified Supplier is a new way to bridge the gap between material suppliers and clients that wish to meet the highest standards in health and safety, quality, ethical best practices and responsible growth. Sign up for Verified Supplier today to showcase your credentials, improve your reputation and build stronger relationships with clients.
Not sure where to start? Speak with one of our advisors to learn more about Verified Supplier.
Are You Ready To Become A Verified Supplier?
Achieve verification and join our community of material suppliers committed to observing and increasing industry best practices.
Gain preferred status with clients and begin your journey towards winning more business.
