A contractor's industrial risk is not an HR problem. It is a risk to your schedule. The Critical Path Screen reads your shortlisted tenderers before you award, for the instrument, the licensing, the crew they can actually field and the subcontract chain the declaration hides. You send the returned tender. Within three business days per contractor you get a one-page verdict, written to drop straight into your evaluation record.
Awards named without a classification, or an agreement that no longer applies.
Supply through an unlicensed arrangement in a state that requires a licence.
A subcontracting box ticked no while the priced schedule clearly carries one.
A workforce the contractor cannot actually attract, employ and get to site.
Cost exposure on a host enterprise agreement that surfaces after award.
Each gap carries a recommendation and a result. Pass, Pass with recommendations, or Fail and refer.
The result and the findings up front, each gap carrying a recommendation. An evidence appendix behind them showing what was checked and against which source. Written to sit in your evaluation record as it is, not to be reworked.
Recent industrial decisions that change how you award contracts, hire and pay. A plain read of each, and the one thing to check on your side. Issue 01 covers the BHP same job same pay ruling, the Victorian labour hire licensing penalties and the Woolworths salaried pay decision.
Download Issue 01I will spend twenty minutes on it and tell you which one or two I would look hardest at, and why. That first read is free.
Email RyanA separate set of live award tools for HR, payroll and bookkeeping teams. Place a role on the right level, see the real cost once penalties and casual loading are in, with rates live from the Fair Work pay database.