The procurement policy has been shared across the Group’s procurement network, with each entity then responsible for its distribution and effective application.
In connection with this policy, the Group has developed its All-round Performance Charter for Purchasing Partners, a document which is to be gradually shared with all its suppliers, providers and subcontractors by the business lines and divisions and whose aims are to:
Each purchasing partner is required to respect these principles and commitments and ensure that they are upheld by its own partners. Specifically, purchasing partners are expected to respect human rights by avoiding, limiting and remedying any potential or proven negative impacts, excluding all forms of illegal, concealed, forced or child labour (including human trafficking), establishing working conditions that are compliant with the ILO’s fundamental conventions, complying with laws relating to remuneration and working hours, ensuring the health and safety of their employees through robust prevention policies and measures, and treating their employees with respect and dignity. Lastly, they are required to inform their employees and their own partners about the possibility to use the whistleblowing system put in place by VINCI.
This charter is currently being implemented with all purchasing partners that have a contractual relationship with the Group. Depending on the business lines and divisions, it may be appended to framework agreements or distributed through various channels. For example, at VINCI Construction Road France and Networks France, 100% of their strategic suppliers signed the charter in 2025, while VINCI Energies France and VINCI Construction Building France and Civil Engineering France prioritised all their suppliers covered by national framework agreements and/or strategic suppliers considered to be high risk in relation to social and environmental issues. A consolidated framework is in place to monitor the rollout of the All-round Performance Charter for Purchasing Partners and its signature by the Group’s most strategic partners.
These documents are based on the Group’s framework documents, including VINCI’s Guide on Human Rights and the Declaration on Essential and Fundamental Actions Concerning Occupational Health and Safety. Chapter 4 of VINCI’s Guide on Human Rights includes a section on practices relating to human rights in the value chain, while the key principles aimed at gradually securing the value chains are set out in a series of guidelines.
To implement this approach, the governance framework for responsible procurement has been structured around the Responsible Procurement Committee, which includes various VINCI Group representatives (the Vice-President for the Environment, who is a member of the Executive Committee; the Director of Social Responsibility and the manager reporting to her who is in charge of coordinating responsible procurement; the Chief Ethics and Vigilance Officer; and the Purchasing Coordination Director), as well as representatives from the procurement departments in the business lines. In 2025, the Responsible Procurement Committee met four times and continued to expand, with the inclusion of international divisions such as VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Soletanche Freyssinet. Its core missions are to ensure that procurement processes factor in sustainability aspects while also overseeing cross-business projects or actions, monitoring emerging regulatory developments and sharing best practices.
The implementation of this approach at operational levels is ensured through specific governance structures within each Group division and business line, such as procurement committees and Pivot Clubs. In 2025, local responsible procurement correspondents continued to be appointed in the various regional delegations across the Group’s business lines.
In 2025, VINCI continued rolling out its responsible procurement approach. Following on from the risk mapping for its main purchasing categories, VINCI promotes the sharing of the Group’s responsible procurement principles, in close collaboration with the procurement departments in the business lines, through actions in three key areas:
To ensure an effective responsible procurement approach, the most relevant social and environmental issues are identified and analysed for each purchasing category when mapping social and environmental risks. In each business line, the mapping is carried out at the most appropriate level, as determined by the procurement organisation and governance in place. This ensures that the risk map will be an effective decision-making tool and support the implementation of concrete and relevant measures. To facilitate the rollout of these maps across the Group, a semi-automated mapping tool was developed by the Social Responsibility Department between 2024 and 2025. It can be used to analyse the level of risk associated with 18 social and environmental issues, covering fundamental human rights and health and safety in particular, for all types of purchases: supplies (construction materials, lighting equipment, cables, site machinery, energy transmission equipment, etc.), subcontracting, service providers and temporary employment. Available in three languages (French, English and Spanish), this tool enables each user to carry out their own assessments while also capitalising on existing maps by providing access to the results for over 100 purchasing categories already assessed by several Group divisions. Supported by a comprehensive guide, this mapping tool is helping to drive progress towards the objectives of the Group’s responsible procurement approach:
