For procurement
Approve suppliers on your terms.
Assured Contractors lets procurement teams prequalify contractors against their own requirements (documents, insurance, accreditations and Companies House status) and see each supplier's current status, with the reasons, at any time.
A scheme can still be part of your requirements. The decision, the evidence and the audit trail are yours, and suppliers join free, so there's no portal fee for them to price back in.
- Your requirement sets and risk tiers
- Reminders at 90, 60 and 30 days
- Suspend with a reason, on the record
Sound familiar?
What this usually looks like today.
Insurance that quietly lapses
EL and PL renewals arrive by email, if at all. The approved supplier list says approved; the certificate ran out in June.
The same evidence, chased for every package
Each new package or framework call-off starts another round of “please resend your insurance and H&S policy”.
A scheme's pass isn't your policy
A membership tells you a supplier met the scheme's standard. It doesn't apply your insurance minimums, your risk tiers or your rules for high-risk work.
No trail when audit asks why
Internal audit asks why a supplier was approved, or why it was suspended last year. The answer is in somebody's inbox.
What changes
What changes with Assured Contractors?
Requirement sets and risk tiers
Decide what each kind of work needs, from a cleaning contractor to a confined-space specialist, and apply it consistently.
Contractor prequalificationCompanies House lookup and monitoring
Find a company by name or number when you add it, link the record, and see when its status changes.
Contractor prequalificationExpiry tracking that reaches the supplier
Every document and insurance policy has an expiry date. The supplier's admins are reminded at 90, 60 and 30 days; your admins at 30 days and on expiry.
Contractor prequalificationReady, Action required or Blocked
A status for every supplier, and a “Why?” that lists each missing, expired or rejected item.
Contractor prequalificationSubcontractor chains
On each job, see who your contractors propose to subcontract to, and approve or suspend each link.
Exports and an audit log
Suspensions and archives need a reason. Every action is logged, and lists and the audit log export to CSV or PDF.
How it plays out
Onboarding a roofing contractor before a reroof
A facilities team needs a flat-roof contractor for a warehouse reroof in six weeks.
Procurement looks the firm up on Companies House inside Assured Contractors, confirms it's active and emails the contractor the company code.
The contractor already uses Assured Contractors for another client, so it enters the code and is connected the same day. Procurement puts it in the high-risk tier (work at height and hot work). Its EL and PL insurance and SSIP certificate are already in its profile; the hot-work policy isn't, so a document request goes out.
The policy arrives and is reviewed. “Why?” now shows one remaining item: proof of IPAF for the two MEWP operators.
Cards added with photos. Status: Ready. The approval, the reviewer and the reasons are in the audit log.
The job starts. The PL policy comes up for renewal in 60 days, and the contractor has already been reminded.
Illustrative example.
The parts you'll use
Which parts of Assured Contractors will you use?
Contractor prequalification
Requirement sets, document requests, Companies House and a status with reasons.
See how it worksWorker competence
Go beyond the company: see the cards held by the people who'll do the work.
See how it worksVehicles & equipment
MOT, tax and insurance for suppliers' vehicles, shared read-only with you.
See how it worksCOSHH & H&S policies
Your H&S policies, issued to suppliers with read receipts.
See how it worksDoes Assured Contractors replace accreditation schemes?
No. Assured Contractors isn't an SSIP or PAS 91 scheme and doesn't assess or certify companies. You decide what to require; many clients keep asking for SSIP or a Common Assessment Standard certificate, and contractors store it in their profile with its expiry date.
Does it check a supplier's financial standing?
It links each company to Companies House and monitors its status, such as active or dissolved. It doesn't provide credit scores or financial risk ratings.
Will suppliers be charged to join?
No. Contractors join and connect at no cost, on every plan, and keep one profile for every client they work for. With no subscription to pay, there's no Assured Contractors fee for a supplier to recover in its prices to you.
Can we set different requirements for different work?
Yes. Requirement sets and risk tiers let you ask a low-risk supplier for less than a high-hazard specialist, and apply the same rules to every supplier in a tier.
Can we export supplier data?
Yes. Lists and the audit log export to CSV, and records such as worker profiles and registers export to PDF.
Related pages
Prequalify suppliers on your own terms.
Set your requirements, send suppliers your company code (they join free), and keep every decision and its reasons on the record. 14-day free trial.