Tier 2 supplier on a U.S. defence contract

The problem

The supplier filed a self-assessment every six months and the contract obligation was live, yet nobody had ever asked the answers to prove themselves.

The approach

We tested every requirement against evidence, not a questionnaire. That surfaced controls the supplier had already paid for but never claimed. It also found a boundary fix that swapped a construction project for a door and a fob. Leadership left with three decisions, and two of them cost nothing.

Anonymised at the client's request: the sector and the scale are described, the name is withheld.