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How to create a company profile on the Builders Profile portal

About Builders Profile

Builders Profile (BP) collects and shares pre-qualification and governance information in a common

format across the construction industry. It allows sub-contractors to upload company information

and share it with main contractors using the system (e.g. Fusion). Those main contractors can then

assess and, if necessary, score the information provided. This supports better risk management

within the supply chain.

Whilst there is some tailoring of questions within BP, most questions asked are common to all main

contractors and sub-contractors. You might be familiar with many of these questions from PAS91,

ConstructionLine, RISQS and other pre-qualification systems and questionnaires.

It is free for sub-contractors to complete a single profile within BP and submit it to a specific main

contractor (e.g. Fusion). For a fee, the sub-contractor can create and store a BP profile and share it

with more than one main contractor.

Builders Profile and Fusion

Fusion is one of around 50 main contractors that use BP. Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall, who are

joint venture partners within Fusion, are also users.

Fusion uses BP as part of our process for identifying preferred bidders for a range of contracts. We

specifically ask potential suppliers to create a BP profile and share it with us, when we need them to

– for example in the tender documents for a specific procurement.

If Fusion ever need a BP profile of your business, and you have recently submitted one to Morgan

Sindall or BAM Nuttall, then it is unlikely that you will be asked to submit a new profile to us – we

would simply use the profile you submitted to one of our partners.

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We do not suggest or request that any potential supplier submits a speculative BP profile to us.

Rather, potential suppliers should make sure that they are registered with CompeteFor and are

regularly checking email alerts and portal for our tender contract opportunities. Fusion JV advertises

all tender and contract opportunities within CompeteFor.

Why is Fusion JV using Builders Profile?

Fusion uses Builders Profile because two of our partners, Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall, do.

HS2 Ltd and other HS2 consortia might be using different systems to collect, review and assess

information from potential suppliers.

We understand how frustrating and resource intensive it can be to potential suppliers when they are

asked to provide similar information to different clients in different formats and at different times..

Unfortunately, because of the duties imposed by the Construction (Design and Management)

Regulations each dutyholder (e.g. Fusion) must undertake its own due diligence of its supply chain.

Overview of completing a BP profile

The process of completing a company profile within Builders Profile is not necessarily difficult. To

submit a full profile can be time consuming and requires access to an extensive range of company

information, documents and history.

It is technically possible to submit a profile without answering all the questions relevant to your

business, but doing this risks your company achieving a lower score in a tender process than it might

have done if all relevant questions were answered – and this could make the difference between

winning a contract or not.

How to create a BP profile

1. Go to www.buildersprofile.co.uk

2. Scroll down to bottom of homepage, click on ‘subcontractor & supplier service’

3. Scroll down to the bottom of page and click on the button ‘create account’

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4. Create a new account by working through the various pages of questions (the first is

illustrated below) and entering the information requested. All information entered is

automatically and instantly saved.

Information requested includes:

a. where company is based

b. company registration number (if there is one)

c. VAT number (if there is one)

d. contact name and details

e. which type of account company wishes to set up – basic (free) or premium (£295 +

VAT per annum for most sizes of business). Potential suppliers can use the free

option to register within Fusion’s Builders Profile.

f. New password for account

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5. When you have entered all information necessary to complete the account registration, you

will receive a message stating that the email address must be verified (illustrated below).

6. A confirmation message will be sent to the email address you provided. This will include an

account number and a link to click on to verify the email address.

7. From the email, click on the verification link. You will enter an ‘account information’ page

where you are invited to select a ‘client’ (main contractor) whose Builders Profile

questionnaire you wish to complete. Please select ‘Fusion’.

8. Click the blue ‘edit’ button, enter and complete a first page of profile questions (example

illustrated below). The answers you provide to profile questions determines some of the

questions that are asked later in the registration process. For example, if you tick stating that

the company works within the ‘rail’ sector, you will later be asked to complete a set of pre-

qualification questions specific to the rail industry. When you have answered all the

questions click ‘continue’ at the bottom of the page.

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9. You will move to landing page for the main questionnaire (illustrated below). The

questionnaire includes several sub-sets of detailed profile questions; click on each of the

links on the left of the page to access each set of questions.

10. As you work through the questionnaire:

a. information is automatically saved as soon as you enter it

b. you can log off and re-enter the Builders Profile system, and your profile, at any

time. When you log back in you need to click the ‘edit’ button confirming you are

editing a profile for Fusion

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c. Click on the blue question mark next to each question to get more information

about it.

d. Be sure to answer all questions that have a red star next to them, you might not be

able to submit your profile if you don’t

e. Please endeavour to answer all other questions relevant to your business. If you

don’t, it may impact on how your organisation is viewed during a tender evaluation

process

f. If you are not able to answer all the questions in one set, you can still move onto

another question set. You can move around and log out and in again at any time as

you work to complete your profile.

g. The page for some question sets have multiple tabs within them; please be sure to

click on all the tabs and answer whatever questions you can within them. For

example, the ‘document’ tab (illustrated below) contains separate tabs for

insurance, quality management, health & safety etc.

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11. Here are points about some specific questions:

a. Under the ‘main company information’ tab, you will be asked to provide your

company’s Dun & Bradstreet number. You can find this at

https://www.dnb.co.uk/duns-number/lookup.html

b. Under the ‘office’ tab, please be sure to include your head office and registered

office address(es). If this is the same office/ address, please click both boxes on the

right of that address line at the bottom right hand side of page (illustrated below).

c. Under the ‘insurance’ tab, you are required to enter details of what insurance

policies the company holds, and their expiry dates, even though these questions are

not marked with a red star

d. Under the ‘health and safety’ tab, it is necessary to complete the tables of accidents/

incidents, even though these are not marked with red stars

e. Under the ‘declaration’ tab, telephone and email details must be provided, even

though they are not marked with a red star

f. Under the ‘references’ tab, you will be invited to provide company references; this

should, ideally, relate to contracts delivered within the last year

g. Under various tabs, you will be invited to attach a range of documents e.g. equality

and anti-discrimination (or equivalent) policy, VAT registration certificate (if VAT

registered), environmental policy, statement of your financial standing for the

current year to date (un-audited) and of the two preceding years signed by your

company secretary

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12. When you have worked through the questions, complete the declaration

13. …. And click on the ‘and finally…’ tab at the very bottom, left hand corner of the screen

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14. The ‘And Finally…’ page will tell you whether you can submit your profile, or the profile is

incomplete (illustrated below).

15. If profile is incomplete, you can click on the red and green symbols and you will be told

which sections contain questions you have yet to answer.

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a. Click further on the red symbols to find out exactly which compulsory questions

have yet to be answered.

16. When all compulsory questions have been answered, the ‘and finally…’ page will give you

the option to ‘submit my profile’. Click on the button to do just that.

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What happens next

If you were asked to submit a BP profile as part of a tender process, your profile will be:

Reviewed by specialists within Fusion

Scored against a pre-determined scoring framework

The total score will be included within a balanced scorecard approach to contract award.

You might be asked a question of clarification about one or more of your answers.

If you chose not to answer any particular question, please do not assume that you will be chased for

an answer to that question. Not answering it might just result in lost points during the tender

process.

Need more help with Builders Profile?

Please contact Builders Profile support: