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What Main Contractors Look for in a Compliant Site-Services Supplier
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What Main Contractors Look for in a Compliant Site-Services Supplier

Qualifying a site-services supplier properly takes more than checking a logo strip on their website. Buyers who get this wrong inherit the risk, whether that is a Health and Safety Executive enforcement notice, a contractor who cannot mobilise on the date promised, or a subcontractor who cannot survive a 90-day payment cycle. This article sets out the evaluation criteria a principal contractor's procurement team, or an estates and facilities director doing due diligence on a security, cleaning, construction support, vacant property or fire protection supplier, should actually be checking, and why each one matters.

AOG Insights · 14 August 2026Read article →

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Modern Slavery Due Diligence in Construction and Facilities Supply Chains: A Practical Buyer's Checklist

A genuine modern slavery due diligence process is not a policy document sitting in a drawer. It is a live set of checks, on the supply chain, on labour providers, and on individual workers, repeated often enough to catch problems before they become a legal, reputational or human one. This article sets out what the Modern Slavery Act 2015 actually requires, what real due diligence looks like in a construction or facilities management supply chain, and a checklist procurement buyers can use to assess whether a contractor's own due diligence is more than a paragraph in a tender response.

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