Vet the agents, contractors and partners your projects depend on.
For compliance, procurement and project teams working through third parties in difficult markets. We look at who owns your intermediaries and where your payments end up.
Are the local agents, access providers and subcontractors on your project creating exposure you cannot see?
On a large project most of the spend goes to third parties, and they hire their own. The exposure often sits two or three tiers below the contract you signed.
Between 50 and 90 percent of the costs of a typical extractive project go to third-party suppliers of goods and services. Source: Natural Resource Governance Institute.
Patterns we look for in third parties.
The agent came recommended by an official.
The intermediary arrived with the permit, and the permit came with conditions.
A tier-two subcontractor has a designated owner.
Ownership runs through a company registered last year in another jurisdiction.
Your JV partner owns the logistics firm you pay.
Margin moves to a company on the other side of the table.
The invoices are regular and the work is invisible.
A consultancy bills every month for services nobody on the project team has seen.
From tender to handover.
Before onboarding
Agents, distributors, consultants and JV partners, and who stands behind them.
During the project
Subcontractors, payment recipients and new parties added along the way.
At renewal
Changes in ownership, litigation and new designations since the last review.
When a red flag appears
A mapped, sourced account your compliance and legal teams can act on.
Sized to the risk and the deadline.
Start with one counterparty or a full portfolio. Every engagement is confidential.
- Third-party integrity reviewAGENTS, DISTRIBUTORS, CONSULTANTS
- Procurement due diligenceBIDDERS AND SUBCONTRACTORS
- Supply chain analysisTIERS BELOW YOUR SUPPLIERS
- Project risk assessmentPARTNERS, PERMITS AND ACCESS