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Prequalification that checks the document, not just that one exists
Insurances, licences, SWMS and inductions in one place, with expiry dates the system watches - so a crew turning up on Monday is a question you have already answered.
What does contractor prequalification need to do beyond collecting documents?
Collecting documents is the easy half, and the half that fails quietly. A certificate of currency that expired in March is still a file in the folder. Prequalification works when every document has an expiry the system watches, when the depth of the check matches how much work the contractor actually does for you, and when what a contractor was approved for is the same record the site gate reads. Frontline holds the company, its workers, their competencies and its documents as one linked record, so 'can this crew start Monday' has an answer rather than an email thread.
- Every document carries an expiry, so lapsing is a state and not a surprise
- Tiered checks - a strategic contractor is not vetted like a one-day trade
- Head contractor, subcontractor and their subcontractors in one hierarchy
- Approval, induction and competency resolve to the person at the gate
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- competency rules from one customer's training matrix31 roles by 70 requirements
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- tiers of contractor hierarchyHead contractor, sub, sub-sub
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- from your contractor list to a live register
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- documents that expire without anyone noticing
The problem
The folder is full and nobody is sure
Prequalification usually means a shared inbox, a folder per contractor and a spreadsheet saying who is approved.
It holds up right until someone asks a question with a date in it. Is that public liability policy still current. Did the ticket for the operator on site last week actually cover the plant he was on. The documents exist, so the answer feels like yes, and checking properly takes an afternoon nobody has.
The other failure is uniform effort. The contractor doing forty percent of your work and the one doing a day of ceiling repairs go through the same forms, so the important one gets the same shallow check as the trivial one.
- Expiry dates the system watches, on every document
- Depth of check set by what the contractor actually does for you
- The gate reads the same record procurement approved
What it does
Companies, people and proof on one record
Companies and workers linked
A contractor company holds its people, its insurances and its licences on one record. Approving the company and approving the crew stop being two disconnected exercises.
Expiry is a state
Certificates of currency, licences, tickets and SWMS all carry dates. Approaching and lapsed are states on the register, and the people who need to know are told before it matters.
Tiered verification
Set the depth of the check by tier. Strategic contractors get the full pack and a real review, occasional trades get a proportionate one, and your effort goes where the exposure is.
Multi-tier hierarchy
Head contractor, subcontractor, and their subcontractors, with the chain visible. You can see who is on your site and whose approval they came through.
Competency rules that resolve
Requirements come from the person's role rather than a checklist someone remembers. One customer's training matrix became 924 rules the system resolves and joins evidence against.
One record at the gate
Induction, approval and competency resolve at sign-on, so the site enforces the same decision procurement made rather than a printout of it.
How it works
From your contractor list to a live register
Send the list you keep now
A spreadsheet, a CM3 export, or the folder structure. We take what exists rather than asking you to fill in a template first.
We set the tiers and the requirements
What a strategic contractor must hold, what an occasional one must, and what expires when.
The gaps show up immediately
Expired insurances, missing tickets, contractors approved four years ago and never re-checked. That list is the point of the exercise.
Renewals stop being someone's memory
Every document has a date, so chasing is a list the system produces rather than a thing your coordinator remembers to do on a good week.
Included
What you get on day one
- Your contractor companies and their workers, imported
- Document requirements set per tier
- Expiry tracking on insurances, licences and tickets
- A live list of what has lapsed or is about to
- Multi-tier contractor hierarchy
- Competency rules resolved from role
- Site induction and sign-on against the same record
- Approval history - who approved what, and when
Questions we get asked
We use CM3. Does this replace it?
That is usually the intent. Send the export and we import the companies, the documents and the approval states you already have, so you are not starting the register again from nothing.
Can contractors maintain their own documents?
That is the direction and it is on the build rather than finished. Today your team works from a live list of what has lapsed instead of chasing by memory, and the document requirements per tier are already configured.
How do you handle subcontractors of subcontractors?
As a hierarchy. Each company sits under the one that engaged it, so you can see the whole chain that ends up on your site and whose approval it came through.
Does the site gate know about any of this?
Yes. Sign-on resolves against the same record - the approval, the induction and the competencies for that person's role. A crew that is short of something is short at the gate, not after an incident.
See it on your own contractor list.
Send the spreadsheet or the CM3 export. When your spot comes up we show you what has already lapsed.
- We take a few teams at a time
- Imports your existing approvals
- No IT project