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Becoming a Supplier to KPMG
 KPMG
is a leading provider of
professional services including
audit, tax, financial and
risk advisory. In the course
of managing its business
in the UK, KPMG spends
over £300 million
per annum with third-party
suppliers and contractors
on a vast variety of goods
and services from advertising
to telecommunications and
from air travel to waste
management. If you would
like to become a supplier
to KPMG, please follow
the links on the right
to see if you could meet
our requirements.
How we buy
Procurement Policies
KPMG recognises that the application of sound
procurement practice (including the development
and management of supplier relationships)
can deliver significant strategic, financial
and operational advantage to KPMG and its
clients, and can substantially reduce commercial
and operational risk. As such, it is KPMG’s
stated objective to purchase goods and services
from the supplier, contractor or provider
that offers the firm the best value for money
whilst minimising commercial risk.
Best value
for KPMG comprises:
- Goods /
services that are fit for purpose and
delivered in a timely and professional
manner.
- Goods / services that represent the
best possible purchase price in total
cost terms over the lifetime of the
goods / services in question.
- Compliance with applicable UK and
European law and regulations and compliance
with the firm’s demanding ethical,
social and environmental standards.
To achieve best value the firm
works closely with its key suppliers
to create relationships of mutual
trust and respect for the combined
benefit of our respective organisations.
Our procurement policy requires
that the firm’s central procurement
department is actively involved in
all orders or contracts:
- With a total aggregated value
in excess of £100,000, and/or
- Presenting a significant business,
financial, legal, professional or
reputational risk, and/or
- Involving potential outsourcing
or off-shoring.
Our procurement department
The firm’s central Procurement Department is responsible for providing best practice procurement advice and support to all parts of the firm with key procurement decisions taken jointly between the Procurement Department and the business area concerned. The Department reports through to Mike Blake, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Infrastructure.
Ethical policies
Ethics – KPMG
insists on the highest ethical
standards from both its suppliers
and staff and conducts its
procurement activities in an
open and transparent manner
to ensure the highest standards
of integrity and to avoid any
conduct capable of misinterpretation.
Any improper approaches from
suppliers are reported internally.
Confidentiality –
KPMG treats all supplier information
including pricing and other commercial
terms as strictly confidential.
Gifts
and hospitality –
KPMG personnel are instructed to refuse
all offers of gifts, money and/or hospitality
from suppliers other than minor gifts
of low intrinsic value such as pens,
diaries etc. Suppliers are therefore
encouraged not to offer such gifts,
hospitality or entertainment to KPMG
staff and should note that gifts of
any real worth will be politely returned.
Corporate Social Responsibility
KPMG’s procurement activities are aligned
to the firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) policies and programme, ensuring, where
possible, that the firm:
- Minimises its consumption of goods
and services (including paper, energy
etc.)
- Purchases from sustainable
sources
- Selects suppliers that
have a compatible approach to
Corporate Social Responsibility,
and
- Takes relevant environmental
factors into account when assessing
alternative supplier proposals.
Also
see our Corporate Social Responsibility section.
Suppliers who are clients
of KPMG
Many
suppliers of goods and services
that the firm requires on an ongoing
basis are themselves clients of
KPMG. Whilst the firm may purchase
goods and services from its clients,
it is required to apply strict rules
regarding integrity and objectivity
to ensure that no undue influence
is exerted favouring the award of
any order or contract to an audit
client. Conversely, on those occasions
when an audit client does offer
best value for money, the firm is
required to ensure that the award
of an order or contract does not
lead to a potential, perceived or
actual bias, conflict of interest
or influence upon the objectivity
and integrity of KPMG’s
relationship with the audit client
in question.
To this end, the
Procurement Department is required
to demonstrate that all orders
and/or contracts awarded to audit
clients of the firm are:
- On an arm’s length basis
(i.e., reached by means of a
transparent and auditable process
in line with good commercial
practice)
- Undertaken in the normal course
of business (i.e., that the goods/services
offered are part of the suppliers
normal offering and are genuinely
required by KPMG for its business
activities), and
- Not material to either party.
In summary
therefore, whilst the firm’s clients
may be given the opportunity to bid
for relevant orders and contracts, the
firm does not permit purchasing and
contracting decisions to be influenced
by a desire to create, protect or enhance
a client relationship, nor permit a
supplier relationship to be used as
a basis for soliciting business.
Also see:
What we buy
If
you would like to apply to be considered
as a Supplier
please click
here
If you follow this link and fill in
the form you will be asked
to provide details of your
personal identity:
e.g., name;
address;
phone number;
e-mail address;
company etc. The information you provide will be processed and made available to applicable personnel within KPMG LLP (UK). If you agree
and consent to above use of
the data, please go to the
link provided above to complete
application online. If you
proceed to access the link,
you will be deemed to have
consented to collection and
processing of your data as
described above.
Please note: completing the application
process does not guarantee
that your company will receive
a request to bid or a contract
from KPMG LLP (UK),
nor does it imply that your
company has any type of procurement
relationship with KPMG now
or in the future.
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