Free EcoVadis Assessment Start Pack
Start Your EcoVadis Assessment Without Wasting the First Week
Has a customer asked your company to complete EcoVadis? Or are you preparing for a first assessment and unsure whether to open the questionnaire, gather documents or start asking colleagues for help?
The free EcoVadis Assessment Start Pack helps you check your starting position, identify the area that needs attention first and organise useful action for the next seven days.
Use it to answer three practical questions:
- Where are we actually starting from?
- Which gap could slow us down most?
- What should we do first?
Check. Choose. Act.
Get the Free Assessment Start Pack
Complete the short form below. The two questions help me understand who is using the pack and where they are in the EcoVadis process.
A clearer place to begin
Do Not Start by Gathering Documents at Random
The EcoVadis questionnaire is useful because it helps you see which topics and evidence requests apply to the assessed organisation. Problems begin when a team opens it and immediately asks everyone to send anything that might be relevant:
- Nobody is completely sure which company, sites or activities are included.
- The deadline is known, but there is no workable internal timetable.
- Documents are requested before anyone has agreed what they are meant to demonstrate.
- Policies are collected, while actions, implementation records and results are overlooked.
- Colleagues receive broad requests and do not know what a useful response looks like.
The Start Pack gives you a short preparation process before that work expands. If your questionnaire is already open, use it alongside the pack to make your internal requests more focused. The pack does not assume that every company has the same problem.
The three-step approach
Check. Choose. Act.
01
Check
Review five areas of EcoVadis preparation and record what is clear, partly in place, missing or still unknown.
02
Choose
Select the one gap most likely to delay progress instead of trying to repair everything at once.
03
Act
Plan a focused first week, involve the people you need and start locating the most useful existing materials.
Five preparation areas
A Practical EcoVadis Assessment Checklist for Your First Week
The workbook helps you check:
- Assessment setup and ownership: scope, deadline, coordinator, contributors and approvers.
- Policy foundations: whether important commitments are documented, owned and appropriate for the assessed organisation.
- Actions and implementation: whether commitments connect to real controls, responsibilities, activities and records.
- Results and reporting: whether important measures have clear definitions, owners, boundaries and supporting sources.
- Evidence and submission: whether useful materials can be found and whether they actually support the claims being made.
You then choose one primary gap and turn it into a realistic first-week plan.
What you receive
A Workbook-Led Toolkit You Can Use Immediately
Assessment Start Pack Workbook
Check the five preparation areas, choose your primary gap and organise your first seven days.
Internal Stakeholder Request Templates
Adapt focused request messages when you need information or existing materials from colleagues.
EcoVadis First Document Map
Keep a simple working record of the first requests and documents connected to your chosen gap.
Week 1 bonus
Four-Theme Document Checklist
Use examples from Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement to ask better internal questions. The checklist becomes available after the Week 1 Check-In.
This Pack Is Useful If...
- a customer has asked your company to complete EcoVadis;
- you are preparing for a first assessment;
- you are approaching a reassessment but the work still feels scattered;
- you are unsure who should be involved;
- you need to decide what to do before gathering a large volume of documents.
What It Does Not Promise
- a universal list of documents every company must create;
- an answer key for your company-specific questionnaire;
- a decision about which files should use the 55-document allowance;
- a prediction of your score or medal;
- a replacement for company-specific judgement or specialist advice.
What a Useful First Week Looks Like
Don't expectĀ to finish your EcoVadis submission in seven days.
A useful result is clearer scope and ownership, one identified priority, a small number of focused internal requests and a better understanding of the first documents that already exist.
About Double Your Sustainability
Practical Guidance From EcoVadis Experience
The pack was created by Rutger Verkouw, an EcoVadis Solutions Practitioner with 14 years of sustainability experience who has previously helped lead an organisation to EcoVadis Platinum. It is designed to help coordinators make a more structured start without pretending that every company needs the same answer.
Is this only for a first EcoVadis assessment?
Do I need to have opened the EcoVadis questionnaire?
Will it tell me exactly which documents EcoVadis requires?
How long does the pack take?
What happens after I sign up?
Is the Assessment Start Pack free?
Start with one useful priority
Get the Free EcoVadis Assessment Start Pack
Complete the short form below and you will receive an email with access to the private resource area and downloadable files.
Double Your Sustainability provides independent guidance and is not affiliated with or endorsed by EcoVadis.
