You support a CHSPS applicant
Your platform or service may be part of the applicant's accredited scope or evidence environment. The applicant remains responsible for conformity and for coordinating evidence access.
Applicant-vendor guidance →Commercial relationships · accreditation authority stays separate
For Vendors, Suppliers & Technical Partners
Vendors can support CHSPS applicants, supply services to CHSPS, sponsor public-interest work or seek assurance for their own technology. Those relationships have different rules. None of them automatically creates accredited status, preferred-vendor standing, endorsement, mark rights or influence over an accreditation decision.
Relationship types4 distinct routes
Applicant accountabilityRemains with applicant
Vendor / procurement inquiriesOfficial Contact form
Commercial relationshipNo accreditation preference
Start with the relationshipApplicant-side vendor CHSPS procurement Sponsor / funder Your own system
Which kind of vendor or partner relationship do you mean?
The correct route depends on whose system is being evaluated and what relationship the vendor has with CHSPS. A company may occupy more than one category, but each relationship keeps its own contract, conflict and claims boundaries.
You want to supply CHSPS
Technology, professional services and other suppliers use the vendor/procurement route. Selection is a commercial decision and does not create accreditation endorsement or preferred status.
Contact · select Vendor / procurement →You want to support CHSPS work
Sponsorship, grants and in-kind support are governed by CHSPS-DEV-600, including conflict screening, disclosure and a strict firewall from standards and accreditation decisions.
Sponsorship information →You are seeking CHSPS assurance
If your technology itself is the object of CHSPS evaluation, that is a separate applicant relationship. For example, APS is the current AI Proctoring & Assessment Technology system certification.
APS system certification →When you support an applicant
The vendor can perform the service. The applicant still owns conformity.
Outsourcing or using a platform does not transfer the applicant's responsibility for meeting the applicable CHSPS requirements. Vendor evidence may support the applicant's record, but the applicant remains responsible for identifying the relevant scope, authorizing access and demonstrating that outsourced functions are controlled.
Map the service to scope
Know which part of the applicant's program, system or process depends on your service and which current standard requirements are implicated.
Make relevant evidence available
Be prepared to support the applicant with contracts, service descriptions, control evidence, validation information, performance records or demonstrations when those items are relevant and lawfully shareable.
Protect data and confidentiality
Access to applicant, candidate, learner, examination, patient or workforce information should remain governed by the applicable agreements, permissions and access controls.
Document material change
Changes, outages, incidents or control changes that could affect the applicant's accredited scope should be communicated through the contractual relationship so the applicant can evaluate its CHSPS obligations.
Identify dependencies
Make ownership, configuration responsibility, subcontractors and other material service dependencies clear enough for the applicant to explain how the outsourced function is controlled.
Coordinate reviewer access through the applicant
The applicant remains the primary party for the accreditation record. Vendor participation in a demonstration or evidence response does not make the vendor the accredited organization.
Standards route. Do not rely on a page label such as “vendor requirements.” Use the current Standards Registry and the applicant's applicable standard and scope to determine which requirements depend on the outsourced service.
Commercial firewallEndorsement Preference Decisions Information Marks
Buying from, selling to, sponsoring or partnering with CHSPS does not buy accreditation influence.
CHSPS separates commercial and support relationships from standards, technical review and accreditation decisions. A vendor relationship must never be represented as evidence that CHSPS approved the vendor's product for applicants.
No automatic approval
A procurement, sponsor or partner relationship does not constitute CHSPS endorsement of the company, product or service.
No preferred-vendor status
A commercial relationship does not give an applicant using that vendor favorable scheduling, review treatment or decision consideration.
No outcome influence
Commercial or support status may not influence eligibility, findings, standards, interpretations or accreditation decisions.
No confidential accreditation access
Supporter or supplier status does not create access to confidential applicant records, nonpublic review information or advance standards content.
No automatic seal or claim rights
Use of CHSPS names, seals, badges or accreditation claims is controlled separately. A commercial relationship alone grants no accreditation mark rights.
Supplying CHSPS itself
Procurement is a supplier relationship, not an accreditation credential.
CHSPS may engage outside technology, assessment, security, data, legal, education and professional services. The due diligence appropriate to a supplier depends on the service and data involved.
What CHSPS may need to evaluate
- service scope, ownership and accountable contacts;
- security, privacy, confidentiality and access controls where relevant;
- subcontractors or material external dependencies;
- service continuity, incident handling and change management where relevant;
- conflicts or relationships that could affect CHSPS impartiality;
- performance and documentation appropriate to the purchased service.
What procurement does not create
- no designation as a CHSPS-accredited or CHSPS-approved vendor;
- no right to market a product as preferred for CHSPS applicants;
- no access to accreditation decision-makers because of supplier status;
- no accreditation seal, Certified System mark or member-badge rights unless separately authorized under the applicable program or policy;
- no assurance that a customer using the vendor will meet CHSPS standards.
How to contact procurement. Open Contact CHSPS and choose Vendor / procurement. Do not send passwords, payment-card information or sensitive health information through the general contact form.
Consultants & readiness providers
Helping an applicant prepare does not make a consultant a CHSPS agent.
Consultants may help organize readiness work
Applicants may use outside advisers to interpret their own operations, organize documentation or prepare internal work. The applicant remains responsible for every representation and every item of evidence submitted to CHSPS.
Consultants cannot pre-approve CHSPS evidence or outcomes
A consultant cannot speak for CHSPS, guarantee accreditation, promise that evidence will be accepted, represent access to a reviewer or decision-maker, or convert a commercial relationship into preferential treatment.
Names, claims & relationship language
Describe the relationship factually. Do not turn it into accreditation.
The Mark & Claims Policy and, where applicable, CHSPS-DEV-600 control how CHSPS names and relationships may be described. Support acknowledgments require the approvals specified in the funding policy; accreditation marks belong only to entities with the corresponding current mark rights.
Do not imply “CHSPS approved”
A vendor should not describe its platform or service as CHSPS approved, endorsed, preferred or guaranteed compliant merely because it supplies CHSPS or serves a CHSPS applicant.
Do not borrow an applicant's accreditation
An applicant's accredited status applies only to the organization, program, system and scope in the current verification record. A vendor does not inherit that status by being part of the service chain.
Use only authorized relationship wording
Where CHSPS has approved specific sponsorship or relationship language, use that exact factual wording. Otherwise rely on the public record and the Mark & Claims Policy before making a CHSPS-related claim.
When the vendor becomes the applicant
Technology assurance is a separate CHSPS relationship.
A company that wants CHSPS to evaluate its own product or system must enter the applicable CHSPS program or defined offering. Being a supplier, sponsor, consultant or applicant-side vendor does not substitute for that evaluation.
Example: APS system certification
AI Proctoring & Assessment Technology Certification (APS) is the current CHSPS system-certification offering for applicable AI-enabled proctoring and assessment technology. Its requirements and decision process stand apart from any vendor or sponsor relationship with CHSPS.
Check the current portfolio before making a claim
Use Program Status to confirm which accreditation pathways and defined offerings are current. Program availability is not itself accreditation or certification of a vendor.
Use the route that matches the relationship
Procurement, applicant support, sponsorship and system assurance are separate.
Contact CHSPS for vendor/procurement matters, use the controlled funding route for sponsorship, and use the applicable accreditation or system-certification offering when your own technology is being evaluated.