Helping our teams find your organisation
After you register as a supplier, we may invite you to become a qualified supplier for relevant project categories and regions.
Qualified supplier status helps our teams to find the right companies and organisations to request and order work from.
Your organisation’s details will appear high up in relevant category searches, helping our teams to find you more easily and approach you for relevant work.
Applying to become a qualified supplier
To apply, you’ll need to log in to your SAP Ariba account and complete a form.
On that form, you’ll be asked for some information from you about your business, its location, the work you do and how you do it to make sure you’re able to find the right projects to work with us on.
We’ll ask you about your:
Once you’ve completed the form and submitted your answers, our category manger will review it and approve or deny your application.
How to become a qualified Severn Trent supplier
Step-by-step guidance on how to become a qualified supplier.
Once you become a supplier our Capital and Commercial Services team may decide to invite you to become a qualified supplier.
If this happens, the team will send you an email invitation to start the qualification process.
The email will contain instructions on how to begin.
You will need to log in to your SAP Ariba account.
Select “Ariba proposals and questionnaires” from the drop-down menu.
Select the “Supplier Qualification Questionnaire”.
Once you have answered all applicable questions, submit the form.
A message will then appear on screen saying your form has been submitted successfully.
Shortly after submitting your form, you will get an email to confirm that you have been approved as a qualified supplier.
Suppliers can be disqualified
There are circumstances in which you could lose your qualified supplier status.
These can include:
If you lose your qualified supplier status, you’ll no longer appear in the category searches our teams carry out when looking for suppliers.
Keep this information to hand
You can download and print this information to keep it handy during registration.