Disqualification

A supplier can be disqualified for a set amount of time or indefinitely if it fails to conduct business properly with the Group or its subsidiaries. Metinvest’s Supplier Relations Board is responsible for deciding whether to disqualify a supplier or resume cooperation with a previously disqualified supplier. The Board is entitled to disclose information concerning the reasons for a supplier’s disqualification.

• systematically delivering poor quality goods, works and services;
• supplying counterfeit products;
• failing to comply with delivery deadlines for goods, work and services, as well as with the established health and safety rules at Metinvest’s operations;
• refusing to sign a standard contract, if required in the supplier selection process;
• refusing to sign specifications to a supply contract after the offer price has been set (within a tender or bidding);
• failing to comply with ethical and transparent business principles, including collusion between suppliers to increase and maintain unreasonable prices for goods, work and services;
• attempting to bribe Group employees;
• poor annual performance;
• other criteria (as decided by the Supplier Relations Board).

All Metinvest assets maintain a shared supplier performance database containing the names of suppliers that have been disqualified, as well as the reasons for their disqualification.