Néosoft x Verdikt
Sector
IT Services (ESN)
Scope
Public & Private
Country
France
Year
2025
How Néosoft turned a regulatory obligation into a competitive advantage
As CSRD requirements intensify and enterprise clients push Scope 3 emissions data down their supply chains, Néosoft chose to get ahead of the curve.
By deploying the Verdikt platform, the digital transformation consultancy now measures the carbon footprint of its own IT operations and the projects IT delivers for clients — and uses that data to win business.
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Who?
Néosoft, a French digital transformation consultancy serving both public sector and private enterprise clients.
What was the problem?
Contractual RSE commitments to fulfil — with no reliable measurement tool, no auditable data — while their public sector clients were themselves under pressure from the REEN Act and increasingly stringent carbon criteria in public procurement.
What was the solution?
Deploying the Verdikt platform across two scopes simultaneously: Néosoft's own internal IT systems AND the IT projects delivered to its clients.
What were the results?
Centralised IT asset inventory (replacing manual Excel spreadsheets) I Precise manufacturer-sourced carbon footprint measurement for every engagement I Measurable differentiation in competitive bids and tenders I REEN Act compliance support for public sector clients I A ripple effect: Néosoft's clients are now assessing their own footprints
What's next?
Moving from measurement to action — hardware renewal policy, low-carbon mobility, full reassessment in 2026.
THE CONTEXT
Regulatory pressure is becoming a selection criterion
Since the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) came into force, large companies within its scope — those with more than 1,000 employees and revenues above €450 million — are required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, including Scope 3.
IT procurement — software development, managed services, systems integration, digital transformation consulting — sits squarely within that Scope 3 perimeter. In practice, this means sustainability and procurement teams at major enterprises are turning to their IT service providers and demanding reliable, project-level emissions data.
The signal from the field is unambiguous: IT providers that cannot answer this question are being removed from preferred supplier panels — not because of price or technical capability, but because they lack usable environmental data.
Carbon criteria are now embedded in tender scoring grids. IT firms that don't measure are getting cut from panels.
For Néosoft, this is not a theoretical concern. David COUDERT, an Engagement Manager with four years at the firm, encounters it daily:
“I manage a portfolio of clients where our contracts include RSE commitments — around monitoring, and around the environmental impact our teams generate for our clients.”
Néosoft's challenge
Measure without burdening the teams
Like many IT service providers, Néosoft quickly identified the need for structured, reliable carbon measurement — without adding overhead for project managers.
Four priorities shaped the approach:
- Meeting Scope 3 requirements from large enterprise clients, especially in the public sector
- Embedding carbon measurement into commercial proposals as a differentiating argument
- Producing certified deliverables at project close that could plug directly into client reporting — with no rework required
- Ensuring REEN Act compliance for public sector clients
The starting point was straightforward but telling: asset inventories managed through Excel spreadsheets sent manually to clients, and no structured way to measure the carbon footprint of their engagements. Their public sector clients were in the same position. As David put it:
“They know they need to measure. They know they’re under pressure. But they don’t know where to start. They’re starting from zero.”
The solution
Verdikt deployed across two scopes
Néosoft rolled out both offerings on the Verdikt platform:
Offering 1: IT Carbon Assessment
Full picture of Néosoft’s own information system footprint, covering the complete range of environmental dimensions: climate, water, energy, resources and biodiversity — across all IT domains (workplace, infrastructure, networks, cloud, applications, and suppliers).
Offering 2: IT Project Footprint Measurement
Assessing the carbon impact of every engagement delivered to clients, project by project, using manufacturer-sourced equipment data alongside travel patterns and project-specific characteristics.
Two objectives structured the deployment:
Mesure to act
Identify the highest-priority reduction levers and build team awareness through the platform. Two findings stood out.
First, the real impact of IT equipment — often underestimated: a smartphone sitting in someone’s pocket carries a significant carbon footprint, even if it feels invisible day to day.
Second, stark geographical disparities in commuting patterns. David describes it directly:
“In Limoges, almost everyone drives to work. I can see clearly that the carbon footprint from travel is significantly higher for colleagues based there than for those in Bordeaux, Nantes or Paris.”
An invisible reality without the data, obvious once you have it.
Compare to decide
Inform strategic decisions with environmental data, using sector benchmarking to understand where Néosoft’s footprint sits relative to peers.
results
From compliance to commercial advantage
Deploying Verdikt produced impact across two complementary dimensions:
Operational and regulatory impact
- Centralised, reliable IT asset inventory, a single source of truth replacing scattered spreadsheets, shareable across procurement and HR teams
- Granular tracking of staff commuting patterns, feeding directly into internal HR policies (with incentives for low-carbon choices)
- REEN Act compliance delivered for public sector clients
- Scope 3-ready, certifiable emissions data that plugs directly into client sustainability reports without reprocessing
- First reduction levers identified, with a full reassessment planned for 2026
Commercial impact
The difference in tenders is tangible. Where competitors offer rough approximations — revenue divided by headcount — Néosoft presents precise, auditable, manufacturer-sourced measurements. David is clear about the effect:
“The RSE component is growing in weight within tender scoring. That gives us real command over that part of the score — and opens up markets we couldn’t access before.”
The approach also creates a self-reinforcing dynamic. When David presents the Verdikt measurement to client procurement teams, it consistently prompts them to assess their own footprint and bring their own supply chain along. Néosoft moves from vendor to co-pilot of its clients’ environmental performance.
| Before Verdikt | With Verdikt |
|---|---|
| ✕Manual Excel spreadsheets | ✓Centralised, auditable asset inventory |
| ✕Rough approximations | ✓Precise, manufacturer-sourced measurements |
| ✕Unstructured mobility tracking | ✓Per-collaborator tracking, integrated with HR |
| ✕Generic RSE statements | ✓Structured, evidence-based differentiation |
| ✕REEN compliance unaddressed | ✓Ready-made solution for public sector clients |
In their own words
Verdikt brings something that didn't exist at our clients' end, and didn't exist at ours — and it addresses real, growing demands across both public procurement and private sector contracts.
David CoudertThree principles for getting this right
Néosoft’s experience points to three conditions that make IT carbon measurement actually work in a services context.
1. Segment before you measure
Staff augmentation, cloud-native development, managed services: each delivery model has its own primary emission drivers. The first step is understanding what you’re measuring and why, so the methodology fits the reality of each engagement type.
At Néosoft, this is what surfaced the unexpected geographical disparities that are now informing real operational decisions.
2. Don't create friction for the teams
The only measurement programme that sticks is one project managers don’t have to think about. If the tool creates overhead, it won’t last. Verdikt is designed to integrate with existing tooling — ITSM, CMDB, project management platforms — rather than running alongside them as a separate burden.
3. Deliver something the client can actually use
A certifiable carbon report, CSRD-compatible, that plugs directly into the client’s Scope 3 reporting without rework: that’s the real value. Not another PDF. A structured deliverable that satisfies a genuine regulatory requirement. That’s what David presents to procurement teams. And that’s what triggers the ripple effect.
FAQ
Not necessarily on a direct basis — unless they exceed CSRD thresholds themselves. But they face an indirect obligation: their CSRD-subject clients must include supplier emissions in their Scope 3 reporting, which creates a de facto requirement to provide reliable carbon data, regardless of the provider’s own regulatory status.
The REEN Act (Loi visant à Réduire l’Empreinte Environnementale du Numérique en France) requires French local authorities and public bodies to measure and reduce the environmental impact of their IT systems. For their IT service providers, this translates into a direct demand for structured carbon data — and a clear opportunity for firms that are already equipped to deliver it.
Using the Verdikt platform, which integrates manufacturer-sourced equipment data alongside travel and project-specific parameters. This produces a precise, auditable measurement — a significant step up from the back-of-envelope approximations that remain standard practice among most competitors.
Two findings surprised the teams most: the real-world carbon impact of IT equipment (especially smartphones, which are consistently underestimated), and significant geographic disparities in commuting — colleagues in smaller cities with limited public transport generate meaningfully higher travel-related emissions than those in well-connected urban centres.
No. It narrows the CSRD scope to companies with 1,000+ employees and €450M+ in revenue — which are precisely the most commercially significant clients for IT providers. Their contractual demands around supplier carbon data remain fully intact.
The two primary frameworks are the GHG Protocol (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and the ADEME Bilan Carbone®. For IT-specific granularity, the GR491 framework and GreenIT.fr guidelines provide detailed coverage of digital assets, usage patterns and infrastructure.
Three concrete deliverables make the difference: a project carbon assessment at kick-off, a reduction roadmap embedded in contract governance, and a certified impact report at project close. Together, these provide evidence where competitors offer statements — and they carry growing weight in public procurement scoring.
IT carbon footprint as a competitive advantage
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As a digital transformation consulting firm, we use both offerings from the platform: the tool for measuring the IT department's carbon footprint as well as the measurement of our clients' strategic projects' footprint.
Florence Mazaudier Sustainable Digital Offering Manager, Néosoft group