Websites · 5 min read
Bidding for public sector work? Your website is part of the scoring
Procurement teams check supplier websites during due diligence. Publish accreditations with dates, insurance levels, policies (health and safety, environmental, modern slavery, equality), social value commitments and project evidence with values and sectors. Missing documents create doubt at exactly the wrong moment.
By Raja Wahab, Co-founder, Fixby Studios · Updated
Why it matters more than it used to
Social value and compliance now carry real weight in scoring. Assessors will look you up. A site that cannot evidence what your bid claims is a problem you never get told about.
The checklist
- Accreditations with certificate numbers and expiry dates.
- Insurance levels: public liability, employers' liability, professional indemnity.
- Downloadable policies: H&S, environmental, quality, modern slavery, EDI, data protection.
- Project evidence by sector, with contract value and duration.
- Social value: local employment, apprenticeships, community work — with numbers.
- Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA, since public bodies are required to consider it.
- Company details, registered address and company number in the footer.
Make it easy to verify
Put all of it in one 'Compliance' page and link it from your footer. Bid teams should be able to send a single URL rather than assemble a folder each time.
Raja Wahab is co-founder of Fixby Studios, a Huddersfield studio building websites, SEO, social media and business software for small, owner-managed businesses across West Yorkshire.
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