2024 Universal Registration Document

General and financial elements

Through its calls for tenders, VINCI Autoroutes promotes practices that reduce the carbon footprint of road maintenance work. For example, Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF, VINCI Autoroutes), is experimenting with a new environmental scorecard to help and encourage suppliers to engage in continuous improvement. In their tender submission, suppliers are urged to make certain pledges that help reduce the environmental impact of worksites. These commitments are incorporated into the contract and monitored throughout the project, and penalties apply if they are not met. The scorecard was first tested for the maintenance contract for the A64 North motorway. Documented feedback from these initiatives and innovations will benefit the entire industry. In addition, upper limits for CO2 emissions per tonne of asphalt mix are included in contracts awarded by the programme management divisions of Cofiroute, ASF East and Escota. Penalties apply if the limits are exceeded.

For local purchases, materials suppliers are systematically asked to provide information on their environmental footprint, such as their carbon impact or the use of bio-based materials, during the selection process. Increasingly, preference is given to suppliers that take steps to protect the environment, and they are regularly audited in this respect, particularly when contracts are up for renewal. In the Building France division, environmental data modelling tools for construction materials have been developed in collaboration with engineers from the École des Ponts ParisTech to assess the exact environmental footprint, especially the greenhouse gas emissions, of the concrete used in its projects. The aim is to be able to generate data that its teams can use for their life cycle assessment calculations.

Additional measures are taken by business lines and subsidiaries, for example:

Business line Examples of supplier assessment
VINCI Autoroutes VINCI Autoroutes

Examples of supplier assessment

  • Due diligence during selection and bidding processes
  • Supplier audits including sustainability criteria
  • Supplier assessments during performance, using dedicated internal tools, and sharing results at meetings
  • Collaboration with suppliers on environmental issues (such as products used for road maintenance)
  • Initial and follow-up assessments of selected suppliers in the Cofiroute network
  • Assessment of environmental suppliers (providing programme management assistance)
  • Consolidation of purchases through framework agreements
  • Streamlining of the number of purchases and deliveries to lighten the logistics load
  • Mapping of CSR risks per purchasing category
VINCI Airports VINCI Airports

Examples of supplier assessment

– Identification and assessment (in progress) of the main social and environmental risks for each purchasing category

VINCI Energies VINCI Energies

Examples of supplier assessment

  • Completion of a yearly or half-yearly questionnaire to assess each company’s top 10 suppliers and top five subcontractors, and support provided to them in their identified areas for improvement
  • Assessment of VINCI Energies suppliers in France, using the Actradis platform
  • Inclusion of environmental clauses in the general terms and conditions of purchase for services and subcontracting, covering corporate CSR aspects, across the VINCI Energies International & Systems and VINCI Energies Europe North West divisions
  • Inclusion of environmental clauses in international framework agreements across VINCI Energies’ two Europe divisions (North West and East) and its two France divisions (Building Solutions & Industry and Infrastructure & ICT), as well as a Sustainable Procurement Policy
  • ESG criteria applied during the supplier selection process by the VINCI Energies Europe North West division, including the rollout of a dedicated platform in the Netherlands to monitor the ESG performance of suppliers
  • Partnerships with suppliers in the main purchasing categories (distribution, ICT, cables, lighting, etc.) to discuss ESG issues, develop action plans to reduce emissions, improve the circular economy and conduct pilot projects (green cables in Sweden and the Netherlands, PPE reuse, last-mile EV solutions, and a working group with Würth, Siemens, Zumtobel and VINCI Energies Europe East)
  • In the VINCI Energies France Building Solutions & Industry and VINCI Energies France Infrastructure & ICT divisions:
    • Use of carbon emissions data provided by national suppliers (product environmental profiles, LCA, etc.) to inform the Scope 3 emissions reduction plan
    • Since 2024, national selection and bidding processes taking suppliers’ environmental goals and initiatives into account in making a final decision
    • Inclusion, in all contracts and purchase orders, of specifications relating to the environmental management of works, the management of environmental incidents, and expectations from the contracting companies in the VINCI Energies Italy business line (VINCI Energies Europe East)
  • In the VINCI Energies Switzerland ICT & Automation business line (VINCI Energies Europe East), an appendix to the Swisscom contract applying ESG criteria to the entire supply chain, and in the VINCI Energies Switzerland Building Solutions business line (Etavis), setting of annual environmental and social targets for its suppliers
Cobra IS

Cobra IS

Examples of supplier assessment

  • Supplier audits including sustainability criteria
  • Assessments of suppliers and subcontractors in the context of ISO 14001 certification
  • ESG questionnaires for suppliers
  • Obligation for suppliers of the Semi division to commit to applying its environmental policy
  • Obligation for suppliers of the Syneox division to comply with its set of environmental criteria, which includes rules on closeness to construction sites, use of plastics and waste management
  • Implementation by the Sice division of a responsible purchasing policy and associated list of supplier selection criteria in Australia and a purchasing and subcontracting policy including environmental standards in Spain. The division has also set up internal procedures to reduce its environmental impact related to goods transport.
VINCI Construction VINCI Construction

Examples of supplier assessment

  • In 2024, an ESG questionnaire was answered by every supplier participating in a tender process coordinated by the VINCI Construction Roads and Networks Purchasing Department to assess their ethics, social and environmental performance. Six national tender processes took place in 2024, during which 58 suppliers were assessed, 20 were given an action plan to improve their non-financial performance and 10 were eliminated due to their inadequate non-financial performance.
  • Assessments of subcontractors, suppliers and partners after service completion, using a dedicated internal tool including environmental criteria (Earthworks, Maritime and River Works Delegation and Dodin Campenon Bernard), with 191 environmental assessments performed by the Earthworks, Maritime and River Works Delegation in 2024
  • Rollout of supplier audits in progress in France
  • Priority purchasing categories identified by the VINCI Construction divisions in France and plotted in a risk map specific to each entity. This risk map indicates the materiality of each purchasing category with respect to its social and environmental impacts. Discussions have been initiated with certain strategic suppliers (for example, for fuel and concrete) with a view to reducing the Group’s Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
VINCI Immobilier VINCI Immobilier

Examples of supplier assessment

– Development of environmental specifications for each sector of activity (residential property, office space, hospitality industry, commercial space, and redevelopment) setting minimum requirements in each focus area (natural environments, the circular economy and energy/climate)