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Parousia Group

Suppliers

Selling to the group

What the group buys, how to be considered, what it expects of a supplier, and how invoices are handled.

Categories

What the group buys

The group builds and operates its own platforms. What it buys is what surrounds them.

  • 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 a competitive process. A single-source award requires a written justification and a second signature.
  2. No facilitation payments, no exceptionsThe group does not make or accept improper payments, and neither may anyone acting on its behalf. A supplier asked for one by a group employee should report it.
  3. Human rights are a contractual termForced labour, child labour and the withholding of identity documents are grounds for immediate termination, and the right of inspection is written into the contract.
  4. Local capability where it existsWhere a supplier in the market can meet the requirement, the group prefers it — on merit, at the same standard, not as a concession.

Registration

How to be considered

There is no portal to create an account on. Write to the group with what you supply, where you operate and who you already supply, and the procurement team answers.

Get in touchcontact@parousiagroup.com

What to include

  • Registered name, legal form, country of incorporation and registration number.
  • What you supply, and in which of the group’s markets you can deliver and support it.
  • Two references the group may contact, ideally in a regulated sector.
  • Confirmation that you can accept the group’s terms on anti-bribery, human rights and data protection.
  • Evidence of the insurance cover appropriate to the category.

Invoicing

Getting paid

An invoice is paid against a purchase order and a receipt of goods or services. An invoice without a purchase order number cannot be matched, and it is the single most common reason a payment is late.

Payment terms are agreed in the contract. The group does not use payment terms as a source of working capital, and it does not extend them unilaterally.

What the group asks a supplier to accept

These are contractual terms, not aspirations. Each is written out in full in the corresponding document.