Vendor Onboarding and Due Diligence
The questionnaire and compliance declaration to take from every new vendor before the first order or payment, and the workbook that scores the answers, applies the red flags and tracks expiring documents, review dates and MSME payment terms across the vendor base. For procurement, finance and compliance teams, and for CAs setting up vendor controls for clients.
- 15 pages
- 346
- Word, PDF and Excel
- 30 October 2026
- 30 October 2026
The 2 formats inside
- 1Vendor onboarding questionnaire and compliance declarationMSMED Act 2006, s.15 · Income-tax Act 2025, s.37(2)(g) · CGST Act 2017, s.16 · Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, s.9 · DPDP Act 2023, s.8On its own₹149
- 2Vendor due diligence review and risk rating workbookProcurement controls · MSMED Act 2006, s.15 · Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, s.9 · UAPA 1967, s.51A · DPDP Act 2023, s.8On its own₹149
Not included
What you will still need outside this pack:
- The purchase terms and vendor agreement themselves: use the general conditions of purchase and the MSME, anti-bribery and audit rights clause sets.
- Sanctions, adverse media and credit screening: run on a screening service and file the report with the workbook.
- For manpower contractors, the full contract labour due-diligence questionnaire and the monthly compliance requisition.
- For significant data processors, the full vendor data protection questionnaire and the data processing agreement.
- TDS particulars and verification of a lower deduction certificate under section 395.
- A legal opinion where a sanctions match, a land-border ownership question or a related party approval arises.
Read the opening
The first part of “Vendor onboarding questionnaire and compliance declaration”, as it downloads. Blanks are highlighted.
[Name of the buyer] · Procurement and vendor management
VENDOR ONBOARDING QUESTIONNAIRE AND COMPLIANCE DECLARATION
Return signed, with the Part 15 documents, before any vendor code, order or payment is released
Vendor code: [Vendor code] · Goods or services: [Describe the goods or services to be supplied] · Estimated annual value: Rs [Estimated annual value in Rs] · Return by: [Date for return]
Instructions. Answer every question; where one does not apply, write "Not applicable". Parts 8, 10 and 11 apply only to the vendors named in their headings. The answers will be relied on by [Name of the buyer] (the "Buyer") and form part of every purchase order and agreement with the vendor.