UPS-AS-011 - ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement Alignment Statement

Alignment table

Expectation	Relevant sources	ICCE enforced alignment	ICCE evidence / output
Guidance status and no-certification boundary	Domain 1 - guidance status, organisational applicability and certification boundary	ICCE preserves that ISO 20400 is a guidance source and that UPS-AS-011 is an alignment statement, not a certificate, conformity assessment or ISO approval	No-certification statement, source-version reference, alignment boundary, unsupported certification claim control
Accountability, transparency and evidence integrity	Domain 2; principles: Accountability and Transparency; core subject: Organisational governance	ICCE preserves attributable source, party, event, calculation, release, correction and supersession evidence for ICCE-routed labour activity	Audit evidence pack, source manifest, release record, correction lineage, coverage and limitation statement
Ethical behaviour, rule of law, human rights and stakeholder interests	Domain 3; principles: Ethical behaviour, Stakeholder interests, Rule of law and international norms, Human rights, Full and fair opportunity	ICCE preserves worker, pay, grievance, counterparty and labour-chain evidence relevant to ethical-labour review while keeping legal, human-rights and stakeholder-balancing conclusions external	Worker outcome evidence, grievance record, supply-chain visibility pack, external legal or stakeholder reference, limitation statement
Innovation, needs, integration, cost and improvement	Domain 4; principles: Innovation, Focus on needs, Integration, Analysis of all costs, Continual improvement	ICCE provides integrated labour evidence, economic-layer separation, metrics, exceptions, corrections and learning records while keeping demand, market and whole-life cost decisions external	Labour-economic evidence, contract KPI pack, improvement record, exception and remediation pack, life-cycle-cost limitation
Human rights and labour-practice evidence	Domain 6; core subjects: Human rights and Labour practices	ICCE preserves PAYE route, worker acceptance, hours, payroll, statutory outputs, worker-facing artefacts, payment, dispute, grievance and correction evidence	Engagement-route evidence pack, payroll artefact, payment reconciliation, dispute and correction chronology, worker evidence pack
Environmental, consumer and community boundaries	Domains 7 and 9; core subjects: Environment, Consumer issues, Community involvement and development	ICCE keeps environmental, consumer and community outcomes outside the base labour model unless authoritative external data is separately supplied	Unsupported environmental statement, consumer-outcome limitation, community-impact limitation, external-data dependency record
Fair operating practices and traceable conduct evidence	Domain 8; core subject: Fair operating practices	ICCE preserves counterparty, access, approval, event, exception and audit evidence capable of supporting external fair-operating-practice review without determining anti-corruption or competition compliance	Counterparty record, access and approval log, exception evidence, external investigation or policy reference
Risk, due diligence, priority, influence and complicity	Domains 10 and 11; key considerations: Risk and opportunity, Due diligence, Priority setting, Influence, Avoidance of complicity	ICCE preserves risk-relevant labour facts, supply-chain coverage, evidence gaps, external risk classifications, actions, remediation and review history while keeping substantive due-diligence judgement external	Risk chronology, chain-coverage statement, external risk-tier reference, remediation evidence, due-diligence limitation
Policy, strategy, accountability and implementation	Domains 12, 13 and 14; Clause 5 policy and strategy guidance	ICCE preserves externally approved policy, strategy, objective, owner, target, review and implementation evidence where supplied, without creating organisational policy or leadership commitment	Policy and objective reference, target record, owner and review evidence, implementation evidence pack, missing-policy state
Procurement governance, systems, people and stakeholder engagement	Domains 15, 16 and 17; Clause 6 organisation of the procurement function	ICCE integrates labour evidence into authorised procurement and contract contexts, supports role-specific evidence views and preserves external training or engagement references while keeping procurement governance and competence external	Procurement-context record, recipient-specific view, external training reference, stakeholder evidence reference, governance boundary
Sustainable-procurement priority setting	Domain 18	ICCE supports labour-related priority setting with counterparty, worker, pay, dispute, exception, performance and chain-coverage evidence while keeping full category and sustainability prioritisation external	Supplier and labour-route evidence, performance indicator, external priority reference, coverage and limitation statement
Metrics, reporting, benchmarking and improvement	Domain 19	ICCE preserves defined metric, source population, period, target, calculation, result, exception, correction and reproducibility evidence within its labour evidence scope	Procurement-support performance summary, KPI pack, reporting evidence, benchmark reference, reproducibility pack
Grievance mechanism and access to remedy	Domain 20	ICCE preserves restricted challenge, dispute, grievance, escalation, response, correction, referral and remediation evidence while keeping independence, accessibility, rights-compatibility and remedy external	Restricted grievance record, escalation chronology, correction and remediation evidence, external referral reference, privacy control
Planning, specifications, supplier selection and contract management	Domains 21, 22, 23 and 24; Clause 7 procurement process guidance	ICCE provides labour evidence relevant to planning, requirements, supplier evidence, contract KPIs, exceptions, remediation and learning without deciding need, writing specifications, selecting suppliers or awarding contracts	Planning evidence input, specification evidence profile, supplier evidence pack, contract KPI and review pack, procurement-authority boundary

Sources covered

Principal source

ISO 20400:2017 - Sustainable procurement - Guidance
Edition: 1
Publication date: April 2017
Current ISO status assessed in UPS-011: published and current, last reviewed and confirmed in 2023
Document type: guidance, not certifiable requirements

Main ISO 20400 structure covered

Clause 4 - Fundamentals
Clause 5 - Integrating sustainability into the organisation’s procurement policy and strategy
Clause 6 - Organising the procurement function towards sustainability
Clause 7 - Integrating sustainability into the procurement process

Sustainable-procurement principles covered

Accountability
Transparency
Ethical behaviour
Full and fair opportunity
Respect for stakeholder interests
Respect for the rule of law and international norms of behaviour
Respect for human rights
Innovative solutions
Focus on needs
Integration
Analysis of all costs
Continual improvement

ISO 26000-derived core subjects covered

Organisational governance
Human rights
Labour practices
Environment
Fair operating practices
Consumer issues
Community involvement and development

Key considerations covered

Risk and opportunity
Due diligence
Priority setting
Use of influence
Avoidance of complicity

Detailed alignment domains covered

Domain 1 - Guidance status, organisational applicability and certification boundary
Domain 2 - Accountability, transparency and evidence integrity
Domain 3 - Ethical behaviour, rule of law, human rights, fair opportunity and stakeholder interests
Domain 4 - Innovation, focus on need, integration, analysis of all costs and continual improvement
Domain 5 - Organisational governance
Domain 6 - Human rights and labour practices
Domain 7 - Environment
Domain 8 - Fair operating practices
Domain 9 - Consumer issues and community involvement and development
Domain 10 - Managing sustainability risk and opportunity
Domain 11 - Due diligence, priority setting, influence and avoidance of complicity
Domain 12 - Top-management commitment and sustainable-procurement policy and strategy
Domain 13 - Accountability, organisational objectives, procurement practices and supply-chain understanding
Domain 14 - Managing implementation
Domain 15 - Procurement governance, procedures and systems
Domain 16 - People, culture, performance management, learning and guidance
Domain 17 - Identifying and engaging stakeholders and supply chains
Domain 18 - Setting sustainable-procurement priorities
Domain 19 - Metrics, reporting, benchmarking and improvement
Domain 20 - Grievance mechanism and access to remedy
Domain 21 - Procurement planning, needs, market analysis and life-cycle cost
Domain 22 - Sustainability requirements and specifications
Domain 23 - Supplier capacity, prequalification, tendering and contract award
Domain 24 - Contract management, supplier relationships, end of life, review and learning

Core boundary covered

ISO 20400 is a guidance standard and is not treated as a certifiable requirements standard.
ICCE may provide selected temporary-labour, worker-outcome, supply-chain, KPI, grievance, remediation and audit evidence relevant to sustainable procurement.
ICCE does not approve procurement policy, decide the need to buy, conduct life-cycle assessment, verify environmental performance, assess community impact, select suppliers, make awards or certify ISO 20400 implementation.