NEWTECNIC RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT POLICY

CONTENTS

Working With Us

Prequalification

Statement of Intent

Aims

Key Principles

Behaviour in our marketplace

Health, safety and wellbeing

Responsible sourcing

Environmental management

Quality management

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Working with us

Prequalification

All members of our supply chain and any sub-contractors must demonstrate that they meet our required levels of competence and compliance. This takes place through the prequalification process.

Newtecnic accepts the construction industry Common Assessment Standard for prequalification. You can find out more about this on the Build UK and CECA websites. (https://builduk.org/priorities/increasing-productivity/pre-qualification/ and https://www.ceca.co.uk/construction-pre-qualification-system/)

All members of our supply chain must hold a valid Common Assessment Standard desktop certificate as minimum.

The Common Assessment Standard can be obtained through recognised assessment bodies listed on the Build UK website.

Our preferred platform for demonstrating compliance with prequalification criteria is the Constructionline platform to the minimum of gold level membership.

Our supply chain partners and any sub-contractors must be compliant with the Newtecnic policies, available from the Newtecnic website (https://newtecnic.com/policies/)

Statement of Intent

Our responsible procurement ethos is a fundamental part of the Newtecnic strategy for a sustainable business. Newtecnic has set standards for ethical and responsible procurement to provide lower impact products and services; compliant with relevant industry standards. We commit to working with supply chain partners that share our standards and support Newtecnic to achieve the objectives in Newtecnic's strategy.

Newtecnic is aware of the issues relating to human rights and labour standards in the construction and services industry.

Newtecnic will comply with UK and international legislation and operate in a manner consistent with the principles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization.

Newtecnic understands that there are a range of serious environmental challenges facing our world such as climate change and loss of biodiversity. Newtecnic has a strong track record of environmental good practice and has always striven to go beyond minimum legal compliance wherever possible.

Aims

To ensure effective implementation of this policy we will:

  • Ensure supply chain partners complete our accreditation processes, by meeting the Common Assessment Standard for prequalification;

  • Apply a risk-based approach to ensure we focus on the areas of greatest potential impact;

  • Develop a programme of assessment of key supply chain partners against identified social and environmental risks;

  • Work and engage with local and/or smaller vendors where appropriate;

  • Promote transparency of practice and decision making, limiting the scope for unethical conduct;

  • Comply with the standards relevant to the countries in which we operate as a minimum;

  • We will monitor our performance and ensure that examples of best practice are identified and disseminated throughout the business.

Key principles

To achieve our responsible procurment objectives Newtecnic expects our suppliers to adopt, and further develop, practices that are environmentally sound, socially responsible and ethical, based upon the following four principles:

Care for Life

  • We care about the people and the environment

  • We work safely, or not at all

  • We never walk by if we notice unsafe actions

  • We support health and well-being

  • We promote green solutions and conduct our operations in a green way

  • We are accountable for future generations

Act Ethically and Transparently

  • We do business with a high degree of integrity and transparency

  • We live by our Code of Conduct and never accept shortcuts

  • We foster a working climate where everyone can speak their mind

Be Better – Together

  • We always strive to be better in all we do

  • We are a learning organisation and generously share our expertise.

  • We take pride in quality and innovation

  • We build Newtecnic teams together with customers, partners and communities

  • We leverage diversity to deliver the best solutions

  • We foster an inclusive culture where we are open and fair, showing trust and respect for each other

Commit to Customers

  • We help our customers to be successful in their business

  • We strive to understand their needs and their customers’ needs

  • We are here to help our customers turn their visions into reality

  • We want suppliers who work with us, in mutual trust, to always deliver what we want, on time, at the right price and in a safe and responsible way.

We will always provide a safe and healthy working environment and pay promptly within agreed terms. We will reward excellent supplier performance through repeat business opportunities and help develop mutually beneficial long-term relationships. We will also give our supply chain the space and flexibility to develop and deliver innovative solutions.

Behaviour in our marketplace

Corruption, bribery and unfair anti-competitive actions distort markets and hamper economic, social and democratic development. Newtecnic does not tolerate such activities.

  • We shall not act contrary to applicable competition laws

  • We shall not, directly or indirectly, offer or give any undue payment or other consideration to any person or entity for the purpose of inducing such person or entity to act contrary to prescribed duties in order to obtain, retain or direct business or to secure any other improper advantage in the conduct of Newtecnic’s business

  • We shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or accept any undue payment or other consideration that is given for the purpose of inducing us to act contrary to prescribed duties

  • We record the correct nature of all financial transactions by recording them in accordance with locally accepted accounting principles. Reporting follows International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and applicable Newtecnic Policies and Rules

  • We have controls in place in our IT procedures to ensure adequate levels of data protection for our clients, employees and supply chain

  • Suppliers shall be able to demonstrate they have procedures in place to deal with the risks of bribery in their organisation in accordance with the Bribery Act 2010

Newtecnic requires its suppliers to apply and uphold these key principles within their own business operation and supply chains. We will carry out ethical audits where appropriate.