Providing Scottish Enterprise with goods and services
As a supplier to Scottish Enterprise, there will be a need to process your personal information, either because you are the principal point of contact for your company, or your information has been included as part of a tender response.
If you are a supplier to Scottish Enterprise, your personal information will be processed as outlined in the following sections.
Personal information processed
Scottish Enterprise will process the following types of personal data:
- Identity data
- Contact data
- Financial data
- Transactional data
Source of personal information
Scottish Enterprise collects personal data from the following sources:
- Direct interactions
- Employer or company
- Public sector partners
The purpose of processing
Scottish Enterprise will process your data in order to:
- Submit a bid in response to a tender
- Assess a bid in response to a tender
- Make payment in exchange for delivery of goods and/or services
- Issue feedback surveys to you
- Undertake due diligence for fraud prevention and legislative compliance (for example, to ensure we comply with sanctions regulations)
- Undertake background checks to ascertain whether you have been involved in (any of the following):
- unlawful acts (or failures to act)
- dishonesty, malpractice or other serious improper conduct – including, for example, bribery, corruption, terrorist financing or support
- violations of human rights or civil liberties, or breaches of law
Lawful grounds
There are lawful grounds under which Scottish Enterprise will process your personal information for this purpose. These are:
- Contractual
- Legal obligation – where we are required to comply with a legal obligation in contemplation of, or resulting from entering into a contractual arrangement with a supplier
Consequences of not providing the personal information
We will be unable to consider your bid or to enter into a contract with you or your company.
How long we will keep your personal information
We will keep your personal information for the period of your contractual relationship with us plus 10 years (or 20 years for construction project contracts). Where your tender has been unsuccessful, we will keep your information for one year from the contract award date.
Supplier details will be retained for 12 years from last activity date.