CScoreX stands for:
1- Compliance Standards’ eXtended Core Assessment
2- Compliant & Secured Recycling, eXtended Assessment
It was designed by industry analyst David Daoud at the request from companies that have used GRADE certification before it was discontinued. This extended assessment tool serves several purposes, the most important being:
1- identify, document and assess companies that offer ITAD services
2- endorse the ones that offer great services
3- pinpoint the shortcomings of the vendors that failed to obtain endorsement
This tool allows Compliance Standards to endorse the work of IT asset disposition and recycling firms on the merit of their business processes and how they respond to customer needs.
The assessment asks the key questions of whether an ITAD provider is sufficiently equipped and well suited to support enterprise-class IT asset and electronics disposition.
CScoreX version 1.0 distributes a total of 20,000 points between four major suitability assessment components:
- Compliance, which includes a set of key questions related to data security, environmental, and corporate compliance, gathers the highest point level, accounting for 36% of the total point system.
- Financials, which delves into the financial aspects of ITAD, from TCO/ROI aspects to the vendor’s financial strength, accounts for the second biggest share of the total point pool at 26%
- Operations deal with the actual physical tasks of ITAD, and comprise of 24% of the total point pool
- Management, which takes 14% of the total point system, deals with the characteristics of the vendor as an organization and its ability to deliver on functions like reporting, tracking and compliance. Please see distribution chart below.
CScoreX as an assessment tool and benchmark for your organization:
The most direct role of CScore assessment is that it will give ITAD vendors with the necessary metrics to assess their own operational and business performance as a discreet company and as a company competing in the ITAD space. As data grows, so is the ability of vendors to benchmark vs. peers and end-users practices.
With data subdivided into groups of tasks and functions, it is easy for vendors to identify where their weak points may be and how to either take corrective measures or build a proper PR and communications positions around these weaknesses.
Compliance Standards will help vendors look for areas of weakness, under strict confidentiality terms, and can provide support on the steps needed to fix existing issues.
CScore Ratings as an information and marketing tool:
For communications and marketing purposes, Compliance Standards profiles the vendors that are scored 70%+, as part of the endorsement process. Any organization scored below 70%, does not quality for profiling, but can receive CS’s guidance on where to focus attention in fixing shortcomings.
For those who quality, a profile can be produced, but it requires the ITAD vendor to formally request it, and will require additional qualitative and quantitative information.
A vendor requires a 70% score to be rated. The point system produces the following endorsement levels:
For marketing purposes, rated companies will be awarded a certificate with the following type of graphics:
Requirement: Unlike its free version, CScore.LIGHT, CScoreX is a subscription-based service, that is renewed each year. To receive subscription cost, please fill out this basic form below. If you have already take the test, please use your security token to review your assessment and edit it.
If you are already authorized to take the assessment, please follow this link:
If you are new and would like to know more, you must first register here:
