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Parousia Group

Suppliers

Supplying the group

What the group buys, how the Procurement Department selects a supplier, and how the Finance Department pays an invoice.

Categories

What the group buys

Purchasing covers the equipment, the works and the services needed to build and run the group’s platforms, in every market.

  • Network and data centre equipmentTransmission, switching, power, cooling and the cabling that joins them.
  • Terminals and end-user devicesHandsets, points of sale, terminals and the peripherals deployed with them.
  • Civil works and facilitiesSite preparation, fit-out, physical security and maintenance.
  • Professional servicesSpecialist engineering, audit, legal and advisory work the group does not hold in house.
  • Software and licencesTooling and licensed components, subject to the group’s standards on interoperability and exit.
  • Logistics and field servicesTransport, warehousing, installation and on-site support across the group’s markets.

How the group buys

Four rules, applied to every purchase

  1. Competitive by defaultPurchases above the group’s threshold go to competitive tender, run by the Procurement Department. Single-source awards need written justification.
  2. No facilitation payments, no exceptionsNo improper payment is made or accepted. A supplier asked for one tells the Legal Department, under the speaking-up policy.
  3. Human rights are a contractual termForced labour, child labour and withheld identity documents end the contract. The Procurement Department and Internal Audit may inspect.
  4. Local capability where it existsWhere a local supplier meets the requirement at the same standard, the Procurement Department gives it preference.

Registration

How to be considered

The Procurement Department reviews each submission with the Compliance Department, and confirms whether the company is retained.

Get in touchcontact@parousiagroup.com

What to include

  • Registered name, legal form, country of incorporation and registration number.
  • The goods or services supplied, and the group’s markets in which they can be delivered and supported.
  • Two references the group may contact, preferably in a regulated sector.
  • Confirmation that the group’s terms on anti-bribery, human rights and data protection are accepted.
  • Evidence of the insurance cover appropriate to the category.

Invoicing

Getting paid

The Finance Department matches an invoice to a purchase order and a confirmed receipt, and returns any invoice without an order number.

Payment terms are agreed in the contract and are not varied unilaterally. A dispute on an invoice is raised by the Finance Department with the supplier and with the contract owner in the Procurement Department, and the undisputed part of the invoice is paid on the agreed terms.

What the group asks a supplier to accept

Every contract carries the supplier code of conduct, the anti-corruption policy and the data protection terms issued by the Legal Department.