How we check a supplier
Every Vendrpulse report is built from official UK public sources — read live, weighed against the value of your contract, and reviewed by an analyst before it reaches you. No opaque scores, no black boxes. Here is exactly where the evidence comes from.
How a Vendrpulse report is built
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Resolve the company on Companies House
Search Companies House by name or number; disambiguate active UK Ltd matches against the buyer's stated counterparty before doing any further work.
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Pull filings, officer history and PSC data
Read the latest filed accounts (full or abridged), confirmation statements, officer list, persons with significant control, and registered charges from the Companies House API.
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Run mandatory legal screening
Cross-check the company and every named officer against the OFSI sanctions list, the Insolvency Service register, and the Companies House disqualified-directors register. Hits block the report and escalate for human review.
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Sweep public-sector and reputational sources
Query Contracts Finder and Find a Tender for public-sector awards, the FCA Register where applicable, the IPO for trademarks, and UK press for adverse media. Filter results to the named entity.
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Score against contract value and sector peers
Weigh the public-data signals against the contemplated contract value and ONS sector benchmarks, then assign a risk band (Confident, Satisfactory, Cautious, or Vulnerable).
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Analyst review and delivery
A human analyst reviews the structured findings, writes the verdict and recommended action, and the PDF is delivered to the buyer within one working day for Pulse, three working days of the kickoff call for Pulse Premium.
How do we verify a UK company's identity and filings?
We pull every report directly from Companies House — filings, officers, persons with significant control and registered charges — and cross-check officers against the disqualified-directors register.
Core company registryThe foundation of every report: who the company is, who runs it, and what it has filed.
Companies House
SourceFiling history, accounts, confirmation statements, registered officers, persons with significant control (PSC), and charges or mortgages registered against the company.
Companies House — disqualified directors
SourceWhether any current or former officer is a disqualified director, and the grounds for it.
How do we put a supplier's financials in context?
We read the filed accounts against ONS sector benchmarks and the Insolvency Service register, so margins, headcount and growth are judged against industry peers rather than in isolation.
Financial & credit contextWe read the numbers in context — against sector peers, not in isolation.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
SourceSector-level benchmarks for margins, headcount and growth, so a company's figures are judged against its industry rather than in a vacuum.
Insolvency Service register
SourceInsolvency events, administrations and winding-up activity flagged against the company or its officers.
How do we screen a supplier for sanctions and regulatory issues?
Every report screens the company and every named officer against the OFSI consolidated UK sanctions list, and checks FCA Register authorisation where the supplier touches financial services.
Legal & regulatoryAuthorisation and sanctions checks where they matter for the contract.
How do we check a supplier's delivery track record?
We sweep Contracts Finder and Find a Tender for the supplier's public-sector awards — surfacing typical contract sizes, named buyers, and evidence of scale that filings alone don't show.
Public-sector procurement historyEvidence of scale, customer concentration and delivery track record.
How do we capture ESG and governance signals?
Where they apply, we read the supplier's gender-pay-gap filings (employers ≥250 staff) and Environment Agency enforcement record (industrial, waste, energy and water suppliers) — both filed public datasets that procurement teams increasingly weight.
Environmental, social & governanceCompliance and conduct signals that increasingly carry procurement weight.
How do we verify a supplier's intellectual property claims?
For software and technology suppliers, we check the registered trademarks and patents listed at the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) — confirming the IP the supplier claims to own is actually held in their name.
Intellectual propertyVerifying the assets a technology supplier says it owns.
Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
SourceRegistered trademarks and patents, used to verify IP a software or technology supplier claims to hold.
How do we check the people and reputation behind a supplier?
We cross-check directors against the Electoral Commission's register of political donations and loans, and run a UK press sweep (including GDELT) for adverse-media coverage — filtered to the named entity rather than generic name matches.
People & reputationalContext on the people behind the company and how it is perceived.
Common questions
- Where does Vendrpulse get its data?
- Every report is built from official UK public sources — Companies House filings, the Insolvency Service register, the FCA Register, OFSI sanctions lists, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the Intellectual Property Office, the Environment Agency, ONS sector benchmarks, and UK press coverage. We do not buy opaque third-party credit scores.
- Are Vendrpulse reports automated or human-reviewed?
- We pull and structure data automatically, then an analyst reviews the findings before the report is sent. The conclusion you receive is checked by a person, not generated unattended.
- How current is the data in a report?
- Each report reflects the most recently filed and published data at the time it is produced. Companies House filings, insolvency events and sanctions lists are read live when the report is generated.
- Does the contract value affect the analysis?
- Yes. The same supplier carries different risk for a £5k order than a £5m contract. We weigh the public-data signals against the value of the decision in front of you.
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