Crown Commercial Service: Your Public Procurement Partner
Crown Commercial Service has partnered with Achilles to provide a cost-effective Supplier Risk Assurance Solution to Contracting Authorities.
Crown Commercial Service has partnered with Achilles to provide a cost-effective Supplier Risk Assurance Solution to Contracting Authorities.
Whatever your priorities, we will help you achieve your procurement goals. Whether that is boosting your local economy, making our society fairer, strengthening communities or managing the transition to carbon net zero.
Social value is about making sure that what you buy creates additional benefits for society. To get it right, you need to start thinking about how to apply it in your procurement as early as possible.
Our agreements have been designed to empower you to achieve the social value goals that are most important to your organisation.
Diversifying your supply chains
Increasing opportunities for local suppliers
Creating apprenticeships
Reducing carbon emissions
Promoting equality and diversity
Ensuring your supply chains are free from modern slavery
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For more than 30 years, Achilles has protected organisations’ business interests and reputations by providing unrivalled levels of supply chain risk management and due diligence to large buying organisations all over the world. The combination of the Achilles in-depth supplier analysis and user-friendly platform allows you to fully assess and manage your supply chain in one place, improving standards and giving you reporting power at your fingertips.
Supply Chain Excellence
Build a supply chain with truly outstanding credentials. Assess suppliers against your own procurement and sustainability standards, identify improvement areas, monitor supplier performance and achieve supply chain reporting confidence in areas including carbon, health and safety and Modern Slavery.
Streamline Procurement
Save time and work more efficiently. Let Achilles keep your supplier information up to date, easily visualise the compliance status across your entire supply chain and quickly generate reports. Businesses see up to 80%* cost savings in their procurement processes by using Achilles.
*Source: Achilles UVDB network
Improve Supplier Experience
The Achilles process enables suppliers to enter data once to meet the requirements of multiple Contracting Authorities simultaneously – removing duplication and making it easier to access public sector opportunities. Key information, such as company financials, is automatically populated from trusted sources to reduce the burden on suppliers further.
Achilles collects primary information from suppliers across a wide range of categories and combines it with best-in-class third party sources for the most holistic view of risk possible. Achilles’ Supplier Engagement teams are also on hand to support your suppliers via phone, email and web chat to ensure best results.
Achilles undertakes unparalleled validation of the information collected to ensure data is accurate and enable greater procurement decision-making confidence. Achilles also continuously supports suppliers to keep their data up to date providing all-important on-going assurance.
Achilles baselines and benchmarks key metrics to clearly show improvement and ensure you can report to stakeholders with confidence. An analytics dashboard simplifies the hundreds of data points available per supplier enabling you to easily track compliance over time and ensure adherence to your standards.
Alignment with the Common Assessment Standard
If you are involved in construction related public procurement you will know that the prequalifying criteria for contractors has been updated with the most recent PPN 03/24 to the Common Assessment Standard. Through the Crown Commercial Service partnership, Achilles can help you to ensure compliance.
Buying decisions have the power to create a fairer and more sustainable society. We are committed to maximising social value, reducing emissions, promoting equality and diversity and ensuring the UK public sector supply chain is free from modern slavery.
Achilles has a dedicated team to communicate and assist suppliers through the entire process. Suppliers will benefit from a streamlined approach to enable them to meet the requirements of multiple public sector clients simultaneously.
Increased Business
Suppliers that join Achilles are able to view and apply for tenders and are in a vendor database searched by leading organisations relevant to them.
Increased Efficiency
Suppliers who join Achilles enjoy huge time saving and, ultimately, reduced costs across a number of areas including bid, health and safety and emissions management.
Independent Accreditation
Suppliers on the Achilles platform benefit from clear demonstration of their credentials via Achilles industry-leading validation, recognised audits and accreditations.
Complete the form to arrange to talk to a member of the Achilles team about your supply chain risk assurance requirements using the CCS framework.