Avetta requirements, translated into plain English

You got an email saying a client now requires Avetta compliance before you can keep working for them. Here's what that means without the portal-speak.

What Avetta is

Avetta is a middleman your hiring client pays to vet its contractors. You register, pay a subscription based on company size, and load in the documents that prove you're insured, safe on paper, and legitimate. Your client sees a score. Below their threshold, procurement stops booking you, often without a phone call.

What they'll ask you for

• Registration and subscription. Small contractors typically pay a few hundred to over a thousand dollars a year depending on size and client count.
• Insurance certificates meeting each client's specific coverage minimums, re-collected every time a policy renews.
• Safety statistics: OSHA logs and your EMR, updated annually.
• Written safety programs relevant to your trade, kept current.
• Questionnaires about your operations, which change when clients change requirements.

The part that catches everyone

Registration is a project; staying compliant is a treadmill. The account you set up in a weekend degrades continuously: certificates expire, annual items come due, clients add requirements. Most contractors discover a problem only when a bid quietly doesn't arrive.

Doing it yourself sensibly

1. Put every expiration date the portal knows about into your own calendar with 30-day warnings.
2. Tell your insurance agent the portal's certificate requirements once, in writing, so renewals arrive correctly formatted.
3. Answer questionnaire updates within the week they land. Backlogs are what kill scores.