Public Sector Solutions

Identify trustworthy suppliers using meaningful data to verify business legitimacy.

Provide Valuable Insights on Company Legitimacy

Through the world's largest database of global businesses, you can access the deep insights needed to understand the qualifications and risks in business relationships. Dun & Bradstreet improves program integrity and adds precision to processes for managing the use of government funds.

Consistently Monitor Information

Ensure you have current information on a business, including key firmographic and beneficial ownership data, with the help of real-time alerts, predictive indicators, and other tools.

Confidently Validate Incoming Information

Authenticate information you receive on a specific business, beginning with fundamental firmographic data. Identify risks with watchlist and sanctions data and with analytics-derived predictive indicators of financial health.

Uncover Significant Relationships

Reveal relationships between companies and people within and across corporate family trees, including beneficial ownership and overseas connections, to evaluate legal, reputational, supply, and financial risks.

Protect and monitor your supply chain security and resiliency by learning who supplies your suppliers locally and globally.

Mitigating Supplier Risk Is Complicated

In a world where health, environmental, and political crises can trigger massive disruption, the growing interconnectivity of suppliers is cause for concern. For the public sector, comprehensive due diligence and risk management are vital to ensuring stable, ethical, and productive relationships.

Increase Oversight

Dun & Bradstreet's solution helps protect supply chains by strengthening accountability, reducing risk, and driving better outcomes throughout the entire acquisition management process.

Prevent Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Dun & Bradstreet helps actively protect the public sector and its citizens through verification, authentication, and risk assessment. You benefit from a more effective, disciplined approach to supplier vetting and due diligence.

Be Alert

Dun & Bradstreet helps maintain vigilance in complicated supplier networks via ongoing reviews of entities. When risks are identified, agencies are notified via alerts so changes can be reviewed and subsequent actions can be considered.

Procure and purchase wisely and responsibly by scrutinizing potential suppliers in depth.

Conduct More Reliable and Rigorous Due Diligence

For the public sector, sourcing and acquiring high-quality goods and services from trusted suppliers and vendors is crucial, but the procurement process may be threatened by inefficiencies that could ultimately create problems in your supply chain.

Identify High-Risk Vendors

Assess vendors using multiple data dimensions, including sanctions and watch lists, adverse media, lawsuits, liens, and bankruptcies.

Certify and Source the Right Vendor

Customize search criteria for industry, geography, and more. Confirm that companies of interest meet applicable and relevant regulatory and compliance requirements.

Reduce Spend

Gain a more complete picture of corporate hierarchies and linkages. Uncover supplier relationships that may not be obvious, to identify cost-cutting opportunities or possible affiliations of concern.

Fortify and achieve the benefits of a healthy economy and workforce and quickly respond to disruptions.

Foster Relief, Recovery, and Growth

Set the stage for economic and business activities to return to a healthy state and encourage opportunities for communities to thrive.

Connect Companies with Job Seekers

Use actionable intelligence to help engage with the right businesses to offer employer-based incentives and prioritize layoff aversion programs.

Prioritize Where and How to Allocate Support

Balance resource allocation to support a strong local economic position while monitoring the changing global marketplace.

Act Decisively When Disasters or Emergencies Strike

Leverage a fact-based model to forecast economic impacts and develop informed mitigation, planning, response, and recovery programs.

Transform Case Management

Sharing accurate business intelligence is crucial. Investigators, analysts, procurement offices, supply chain analysts and auditors at the state and local level, as well as federal agencies, benefit from software tools that enable smoother exchanges of more meaningful insights driven by diverse datasets through our web-based and mobile solution.

The mobile app is available on the Apple App Store and on Google Play to registered D&B Investigate users. Download the mobile app today.

Uncover Connections

Dun & Bradstreet helps the public sector conduct business due diligence to find connections, collaborate, and push investigations forward through our web and mobile-based solution. The tool itself allows all users to maintain multiple lists of businesses related to the investigations, supply chains and vendors that they are managing or investigating. It provides linkage analysis that can show relationships between multiple entities and the stakeholders involved in those businesses including the ultimate ownership of those businesses.

Develop Business Intel

Dun & Bradstreet can help identify the global activities of businesses and commercial organizations across industries. Agents can share business data insights to inform case-relevant decisions and actions.

Scrutinize Suppliers

“Following the money" has become increasingly complicated for investigators. Dun & Bradstreet can help agents decipher the enormously complex chains of ownership and association used by international businesses and trade organizations.