For procurement teams
Your local content report is worth exactly as much as the verification behind it
If your operation sits on Indigenous territory, the relationship with the local economy is a material risk and it gets audited as one. Buying from companies of that territory whose ownership, management and control were verified against documents is the most direct way to manage it, and the only one that holds up to an uncomfortable question in a committee. Your contract also does something else: every purchase order to a verified Indigenous business leaves capital and decisions inside the territory. That is why the Foundation exists, and your risk management is the route by which it happens.
Mining · Energy · Forestry · Infrastructure
Three levels, and each one says what was verified
In this ecosystem no company presents itself as an «Indigenous business» on its own: always with its level. That distinction is what your team can report without exposure, and it is why the level is never written by hand.
- Registrada
- Use it to size up the territory's supply and decide who to develop. The Foundation verified Indigenous leadership against Article 5 and tax registration; the Sello additionally verifies management, control and commercial track record.
- Certificada
- Use it to report verified Indigenous spend. The committee checked against documents that at least 50% of the capital is Indigenous and that management and control are as well, and issued a public code anyone can verify.
- Certificada + Auditada
- Use it to bring a supplier into your chain and to report verified Indigenous local content. It adds the approved-supplier audit (legal, labour, operational and integrity compliance) and is funded by the buyer that requires it.
What exists today, without embellishment
This page does not offer features that are not built. What your organization can use today is this:
The Catastro sizes up the supply
More than 16,900 Indigenous economic ventures mapped, with their territory and sector, in aggregate data. That is what the public dataset returns after anonymisation; the figure the Foundation reports is 17,221, and the Catastro explains the difference. It lets you estimate how much of a purchasing category is addressable.
The Directory publishes with consent
The public registry of companies that signed up and authorized being listed. Every record carries its level, and a company that withdraws consent disappears from the registry without anyone having to remember to remove it.
The Seal already verifies, and can already be checked
The standard and the procedure are in force, and checking a code is public: you type the code and the site answers whether it is current, with no account and no permission from anyone.
Access by tier is already enforced
Which supplier levels each organization can see is not a commercial promise: it is implemented in the ecosystem, with tests, and verified in the health check of Compras Indígenas.
And the uncomfortable fact, because it is the argument
There is no Certified company yet: the certification window has only just opened. That is precisely the moment when an anchor buyer decides which categories get certified first, instead of receiving a list somebody else already sorted.
How access is structured
Three tiers, and the difference between them is concrete: how far up the supplier levels each one reaches. The names are the ones the system uses, not brochure labels, because they are the ones the software enforces.
Pilot
Ninety days, with no membership commitment.
Reaches Certified suppliers, including their commercial contact details.
Basic
For an operation with local content targets already set.
Same level of reach as the Pilot, with the relationship established and sustained over time.
Full
For the company that funds supplier development in its territory.
Also reaches Registered companies, which is what it takes to develop a supplier before it is certified.
The figures are not published, and that is not an oversight: the Institutional Model sets pricing with the first real case, after the anchor pilot. Discussing it with an invented reference figure would be starting at the end.
Let's start with a pilot
Ninety days. Your purchasing categories crossed against the registered supply of the territory where you operate, and an honest read of how much of that supply is in a position to be certified within the timeframe your organization needs. It ends in a document with names, levels and gaps, not a presentation.
Who is on the other side
The conversation is with the Foundation team, not a form. Write with your purchasing category and the region where you operate, and the first reply comes with data from that territory's registry.