Receiving data shouldn't mean cleaning it up
Supplier submissions turn AGS that arrives by email - and fails validation late - into data that's vetted against your own rules before it reaches your project.
Blog · 22 June 2026
Every ground investigation project depends on data arriving from other people - the drilling contractor, the testing laboratory, a sub-consultant. And almost every project hits the same wall when it does. The AGS turns up by email, you load it, and only then do you find the location IDs have spaces in them, the sampling dates are missing, or it won’t parse at all. So begins the back-and-forth: export the errors, write the email, wait for the next version, check it again.
Catch it at the door
Supplier submissions flip that around. Instead of receiving data and then cleaning it, you let your suppliers submit it through a portal that checks it the moment it lands, before it ever reaches your project. They see exactly what needs fixing and put it right themselves, so what arrives in your queue is already clean.
Checked against your standard, not just the spec
Every submission goes through three layers. First, is it valid AGS - structure and the BGS validator. Second, an advisory pass of geotechnical and data-quality checks. Third, and most importantly, your own acceptance rules: the fields you require, the patterns you expect, the ranges that make sense for your work. You author those rules once and reuse them on every project, so good data means the same thing every time.
A tracked back-and-forth
When something does need changing, you request changes with a note and the supplier resubmits a new version - all versioned, all in one thread, no lost email chains. When it’s right, you accept it and it flows straight into the project through the same import you already use. Nothing is retyped, nothing is re-uploaded.
The same bar for your own data
Because the rules live with the project, they also appear when you import data yourself in Manage, as an advisory check alongside the usual validation. The standard you hold your suppliers to is the standard you hold yourself to.
Receiving data is part of every project. It shouldn’t mean a week of cleaning it up afterwards.