Procurement and suppliers

Verify the supplier before the purchase order

Onboarding, periodic re-evaluation and risk analysis query the same registries: the commercial registry, the sanctions lists, the contracts with the State and the rules that govern the category. Croma delivers them as one API so every supplier has a file with a source.

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RUES lookup by NIT

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Digits only, without the verification digit. 4 to 15 digits.

A supplier has a public file in four different registries

When onboarding a supplier you have to confirm that it exists and who represents it: RUES by NIT in Colombia, the 11-digit RUC record at SUNAT with status (activo, baja) and condition (habido, no habido) in Peru, SIEM in Mexico, Sunbiz or Delaware in the United States. Then, whether it carries a disqualification: the Procuraduría's SIRI, the Contraloría's Boletín de Responsables Fiscales, the Boletín de Deudores Morosos del Estado, the sanctions recorded in SECOP, and in Brazil the CGU sanctions, the MTE's lista suja do trabalho escravo and the IBAMA embargoes. After that, how much it depends on the State: its contracts in SECOP II, entity by entity. And every quarter, what changed in the rules for what you buy from it.

Croma answers each question with the identifier the supplier already gave you (NIT, RUC, CNPJ, document number or file number) and with the same structure in the five countries. Onboarding becomes a sequence of calls; re-evaluation, the same sequence scheduled at the frequency your policy sets. Every answer names the source and the date, so the supplier file is built from records, not declarations.

Workflow

What this team queries, and in what order

  1. 01

    Supplier onboarding

    RUES and Supersociedades by NIT; SUNAT by RUC; SIEM by name; Sunbiz and Delaware by registration number; PGFN, TST and Caixa by CNPJ. Existence, status, representative and tax and labor certificates.

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  2. 02

    Disqualifications and lists

    Procuraduría, Contraloría, Contaduría and SECOP sanctions in Colombia; Tribunal del Servicio Civil in Peru; CGU, MTE and IBAMA in Brazil; OFAC for any counterparty, with the list updated daily.

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  3. 03

    What it has contracted with the State

    SECOP II by supplier: which entities it contracted with, for how much and what status each contract is in, plus the sanctions and fines imposed on it. In Peru, the OECE's processes by OCID.

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  4. 04

    The rules that govern the category

    Superfinanciera, DIAN, Función Pública and Imprenta Nacional in Colombia; DOF, Cámara de Diputados, Banxico, CNBV and CNSF in Mexico; Planalto in Brazil. What was published and what changed, with date.

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Outcomes

What changes with the official record in the flow

  • Onboarding with the record, not the declaration

    The NIT, the RUC or the CNPJ bring the legal name, the status and the representative from the source. The supplier attaches fewer documents and the analyst stops transcribing forms.

  • Disqualifications before the purchase order

    An entry in SIRI, a final fiscal liability ruling, a sanction as a contractor or an OFAC designation show up before signing, each with the entity that imposed it and the date.

  • Re-evaluation without starting over

    The same sequence of lookups runs by API every month, every quarter or when the contract changes. Whatever has no record answers found: false and also goes in the file.

Compliance

What the compliance team is going to ask about the file

A supplier's file mixes data about a company with data about its representatives, and the latter is personal data under Ley 1581 de 2012 in Colombia, the LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 29733 in Peru and the LGPD in Brazil. Croma delivers the public record exactly as the official source publishes it at the time of the query, with its provenance and its date; what you keep in the file, for how long and for what purpose is defined by your supplier policy, not the API. So that policy can be audited, every request to the API is logged, access is controlled by key and traffic is encrypted in transit. Fields are documented in the OpenAPI and any change is announced with 90 days of deprecation.

  • Official sources only

    Every answer names the official registry that produced it. Nothing comes from purchased databases or third-party summaries.

  • Results that are never indexed

    In the free tools the query and the result live in your browser, never in a URL. In the API: encryption in transit, access control and audit logging.

  • Personal data, with rules

    Lookups on individuals require a legitimate purpose under each country's law: Ley 1581 in Colombia, LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 29733 in Peru, LGPD in Brazil. Croma delivers the record; the purpose and the legal basis are yours.

  • A stable contract

    Every field is documented in the OpenAPI, with a 90-day deprecation policy and Deprecation and Sunset headers before anything is retired.

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Frequently asked questions

Four lookups by NIT: RUES for the registration, its status, the last renewed year and the representatives; the Procuraduría, whose SIRI accepts NIT and records disciplinary, criminal, contractual, fiscal and loss-of-office entries; the Contraloría for the Boletín de Responsables Fiscales; and the sanctions recorded in SECOP. Supersociedades adds the financial statements of the companies it supervises.

By repeating the same sequence by API at the frequency your policy sets: every endpoint is an HTTP call with a JSON response, and long jobs answer by status_url or by webhook. The OFAC list is updated daily and a party that leaves the list stops appearing that same day, so the re-evaluation reflects the date of the lookup.

Yes. The lookup by supplier in SECOP II returns its contracts entity by entity, from most recent to oldest, with value and status, and the sanctions lookup, the fines imposed on it with the entity, the resolution and the date it became final. It serves to measure how much it depends on the State and whether it has defaulted. In Peru, the OECE publishes processes in OCDS format, by OCID.

Yes. In Peru, the SUNAT RUC record with status and address condition. In Brazil, by CNPJ, the Dívida Ativa da União at PGFN, the Certidão Negativa de Débitos Trabalhistas from TST and FGTS regularity at Caixa, plus CGU, MTE and IBAMA. In Mexico, SIEM. In the United States, Sunbiz, Delaware and the OFAC list.

By querying what the regulator published in a period: Superfinanciera regulations, DIAN doctrine, the Diario Oficial and the Gaceta del Congreso at the Imprenta Nacional, the DOF by date and the amendments to federal laws in Mexico, the Planalto's federal legislation in Brazil. Searches answer from the dataset Croma keeps up to date with the full source.

Build the supplier file from official records

One key covers the commercial registry, the lists, the contracts with the State and the applicable rules in five countries. Try the lookup by NIT or RUC for free or book a demo with your vendor master.