The principle verification of every supplier is executed by the Connexio Team on behalf of the utilities (pre-qualification stage 1); each supplier completes an online questionnaire. Once the principle verification was successful the appropriate utility will contact the supplier directly to obtain more detailed information about your products and/or services (pre-qualification stage 2).
The criteria for the pre-qualification stage 1 are set up by the participating utilities in the steerging group meeting. The criteria for stage 2 are set up individually by each utility as they are company or project related.
Criteria stage 1 - Principle verification
New Suppliers
The pre-qualification criteria (stage 1) being set up by the utilities and that every company has to comply with in order to become a “pre-qualified” supplier are the following:
- perform sales in his own name,
- be up-to-date with the payment of imposed taxes and fees,
- not be in debt-settlement proceedings or in any other respect be placed under public administration
- complete and submit the supplier questionnaire ONLINE
- all mandatory fields must be answered/completed
- at least one product or service must be entered
- at least one reference for each product/service must be given; not valid for recently founded companies
- send a copy of the company registration certificate (certificate of incorporation) to the Connexio Team by post
- send the declaration signed by the Managing Director to the Connexio Team by post.
- pay the annual fee to Achilles Information GmbH (Germany)
The registration is valid for 12 months. Once Achilles received the questionnaire (submit online!) and the additional documents/certificates and the payment, the verification (pre-qualification stage 1) starts. As soon as the Connexio Team notices that the company complies with the criteria the company’s status changes from “registered” to “pre-qualified”. From this time the supplier profile is visible for the utilities.
Pre-qualified suppliers
The pre-qualification criteria being set up by the utilitiesand that every company has to comply with in order to remain a “pre-qualified” supplier after the registration period of 12 months or during the registration are the following:
- perform sales in his own name,
- be up-to-date with the payment of imposed taxes and fees,
- not be in debt-settlement proceedings or in any other respect be placed under public administration
- update the information given in the online supplier questionnaire last time
- all mandatory fields must be answered/completed
- at least one product or service must be entered
- at least one reference for each product/service must be given
- send a copy of the company registration certificate (certificate of incorporation) to the Connexio Team by post
- send the declaration that has to be signed by the Managing Director to the Connexio Team by post.
- pay the annual fee to Achilles Information GmbH (Germany)
After the mandatory annual update the registration is valid for 12 months. Once the Connexio Team received the updated online questionnaire and the additional documents/certificates as well as the payment the verification (pre-qualification stage 1) starts. As soon as the Connexio Team notices that the company still complies with the criteria the company’s status remains “pre-qualified”.