Central
Whether it’s to ensure data quality, minimise threat to national security, solve investigations faster with worldwide intelligence, improve financial oversight and compliance associated with government programs or to manage the acquisition process better, the D&B Government team offers a consultative, collaborative solutions approach to meeting central department needs.
The D&B D-U-N-S® Number is globally recognised as a universal business identification standard by more than 50 associations, including the U.S. Government, United Nations and the European Commission.
Data Management
Poor data quality can cost your department millions annually. D&B can help maintain quality data for your decision making. D&B’s DUNSRight® process can help standardise your information, match your information against our global database and append our unique identifier, the D-U-N-S® Number to confirm the business and track business change. D&B can enrich your information with other data elements such as Corporate Linkage and Predictive Indicators. And finally, D&B can integrate enriched information directly into your systems.
Supply Chain Management
Duplicate or outdated supplier information, inability to consolidate spend data across individual or multiple departments, under reporting diverse spend, visibility of total spend, cost reduction, and monitoring critical suppliers challenge even the best procurement department. D&B can help manage the supply chain process better. D&B information enables supplier registration, de-duplication, supplier validation and risk analysis, supplier dependancy and ongoing monitoring of supplier risk. Group spend and exposure, and annual spend analysis to drive cost reductions.
National Security
Protecting the UK from known and unknown threats is our country’s mammoth task. Limited resources for cargo security, limited information on importers and manufacturers, as well as limited time for risk assessment all contribute to this challenge. D&B can help minimise the threat to national security. D&B information can confirm the existence, linkage and associated risk of any trading company, allowing you to prioritise inspections of companies considered a threat to border security.
Law Enforcement
Investigations are a time-consuming process that can yield no results. The information is often outdated or incomplete. Access to global business information is often limited yet critical to counteract terrorism or trace corporate fraud. D&B can help solve investigations faster with access to worldwide intelligence. D&B’s global database of over 115 million businesses provides analysts the information, intelligence and/or insight they need to solve investigations more quickly.
Financial Oversight
Evolving financial and socio-economic status of applicants impacts eligibility or ability to repay. Increase of improper payments, workers’ compensation and money laundering schemes needs to be contained. D&B can help improve the financial oversight on government programs. D&B information can help properly assess the total debt exposure of loan and grant applicants. D&B’s ability to detect patterns of fraud or other suspicious activities can help prevent fraud.
Compliance
Increased compliance requires a proactive approach to non-compliant facilities, site inspections, ability to pay assessment and grant eligibility. D&B can help improve compliance among regulated companies. D&B information on regulated businesses can help generate revenue by prioritising resources, inspections and investigations based on ability to pay as well as ensure consistency in the grant process.
Tax and Revenue
Tax and revenue gaps demand additional sources of revenue to fund central government operations. New revenue can be found with a higher success rate in collecting tax revenue from delinquent taxpayers, unregistered businesses, non-filers and under-reporters. D&B can help improve tax compliance and revenue collections. D&B information can be integrated into central revenue systems to identify delinquent businesses early in the collection process, eliminate duplicates in tax databases, and provide a single view of a taxpayer to prioritise collection based upon ability to pay.