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title: Respond to an internal assessment
description: Respond to an Inherent Risk Questionnaire \(IRQ\) or internal assessment that has been assigned to your queue. Your responses to the questionnaire help determine if the process moves forward and can affect which questionnaires are sent to the third party or engagement.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-irq-respond-to.html
release: australia
product: Third-party Risk Management
classification: third-party-risk-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 3
breadcrumb: [Assess third-party risk, Third-party Risk Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Respond to an internal assessment

Respond to an Inherent Risk Questionnaire \(IRQ\) or internal assessment that has been assigned to your queue. Your responses to the questionnaire help determine if the process moves forward and can affect which questionnaires are sent to the third party or engagement.

## Before you begin

Role required: snc\_internal

## About this task

When someone in your organization creates a due diligence request, the owner of the overall due diligence process specifies who should respond to that initial IRQ. Internal assessments can also be created on demand and the owner assigns questionnaires to IRQ assessors or respondents. As an IRQ assessor or respondent, you receive an email that contains the links to the assigned questionnaires, the name of the related assessment, and the deadline. This information is also provided as part of the questionnaire in Employee Center. For more information, see [Assessing your third-party risk](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-assessing-tpr.md), [Create an internal assessment](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-create-int-assessment.md), [Requesting third-party risk due diligence](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-requesting-tpr-due-diligence.md), and [Due diligence workflow](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-workflow-in-workspace.md).

**Note:** When a request is created, the system alerts the initial due diligence requester and all users in the Due diligence request assignment group. A member of the group can assign a Third-party risk \(TPR\) manager or TPR assessor to act as the owner of the request.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Self-Service** > **Employee Center** to open your Employee Center.

2.  Respond to an internal assessment by performing one of the following.

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**Respond to an IRQ or Internal questionnaire using the Classic engine**

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In the My active items pane, select **Surveys** and In the My Assessments and Surveys section, select the assessment you want to respond to.

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**Respond to an IRQ or internal questionnaire using the Smart Assessment Engine**

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1.  In the My active items pane, select **GRC tasks** and In the My to-dos section, select any number to open the list of assessments with that state.
2.  Select the TPRM assessment that you want to respond to.
 **Note:** You can reassign a questionnaire to another team member by selecting the more actions menu icon \[Omitted image "context-menu-db-element-ac.png"\] Alt text: and selecting **Reassign**. After reassigning the questionnaire, you lose access to the questionnaire.

Internal assessments can be reassigned to any member of your organization. Third-party and engagement contacts are excluded from the reassignment option for internal assessments.

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</table>3.  Answer all relevant questions in the questionnaire and then select **Submit**.


**Related topics**  


[Assessing your third-party risk](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-assessing-tpr.md)

[Create an internal assessment](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-create-int-assessment.md)

[Why you conduct due diligence](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/vrm-due-diligence-why.md)