For UK public-sector procurement teams

Supplier due diligence, in plain language.

The Procurement Act asks your team to screen suppliers for modern slavery and human rights risk — then prove you did. Duecourse turns that duty into a workflow: risk-tiered screening, proportionate questionnaires, and an audit trail that writes itself.

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The problem

The duty landed. The tooling didn't.

PPN 009 and the Procurement Act 2023 changed what "due diligence" means for contracting authorities. Most teams are meeting new legal duties with old spreadsheets.

Checks with no system

Debarment list, exclusion grounds, connected persons — required checks that today live in browser tabs and someone's memory, with nothing to show an auditor.

Questionnaires nobody reads

One modern-slavery yes/no at onboarding, a 40-page ESG survey for everyone else. Neither is proportionate, and the answers rarely change a decision.

Statements from boilerplate

The annual modern slavery statement gets assembled by copy-paste, disconnected from what your team actually did all year.

How it works

Three steps, no law degree required

Duecourse embeds the legal knowledge so your team doesn't have to hold it. Every flag comes with an explanation and a next action — never just a score.

Import & tier

Upload your supplier list. Each supplier gets a risk tier from sector, supply-chain geography, contract value and workforce type.

Ask proportionately

Low-risk suppliers get a light declaration. High-risk suppliers get plain-language due diligence their office manager can actually answer. Duecourse chases the stragglers.

Act on flags

Responses come back as green, amber or red — with the why and the what-next.

Amber: agency labour in a high-risk sector, no policy on worker-paid recruitment fees. Request their policy — template attached.

Who it's for

Built for the teams doing this by hand

Universities & collegesProcurement offices meeting s.54 and consortium framework expectations.
Councils & NHS trustsContracting authorities in scope of the Procurement Act's exclusion regime.
Housing associations & charitiesPublic-adjacent buyers with the same duties and smaller teams.
Their suppliersSMEs who need to answer these questions once, clearly — not forty times, badly.

Why us

Built from inside the job

Duecourse is founded by a university procurement officer with a master's in international human rights law. The product exists because its founder runs these checks by hand every week — and knows exactly where the current tools stop short. That's the promise behind every screen: written by someone who has to answer the auditor too.

Founding pilot

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We're inviting 10 institutions to shape Duecourse from the first release — free during the pilot, direct line to the founder, your workflow built in. No spam, no sales sequence; one email when your invitation is ready.

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