| Supplier Diversity Training Workshop |
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| Client: | Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) |
| Project: | FSquared was asked by the Olympic Delivery Authority to deliver a workshop on supplier diversity to their contractors |
| Location: | Olympic Delivery Authority, Canary Wharf, London |
| Value: | N/A |
| Status: | Delivered on 30th November 2009 |
Outcomes
The Need
Contractors to London 2012 have contract requirements around supplier diversity, including the requirement to monitor and report on the types of companies competing for and winning their business and to push these requirements down their supply chain. This workshop was organised to help the contractors understand why they should and how they can undertake this activity.
The Response
FSquared has supported specific London 2012 contractors and many other public and private sector organisations to implement and monitor supplier diversity. We identified the issues that the ODA wished to address with their contractors. Following this, we designed a workshop which set these issues out the ODA contractors and then offered practical advice on how to address the issues as well as guidance on softer issues around supplier diversity.
The workshop was entitled “Supplier Diversity and Monitoring: Why it matters to London 2012 and how can you achieve it”.
Workshop content included:
Context for supplier diversity: Definitions of it, how supplier diversity is includes in London 2012 contract clauses, feedback on compliance, why supplier diversity matters to London 2012
Evidence of the difficulties that SMEs face in accessing contracts
CompeteFor: The London 2012 procurement portal
Practical experience and best practice: Implementing supplier diversity activity and monitoring, the Handbook on Supplier Diversity in Europe, the Supplier Diversity Benchmark (both published by Supplier Diversity Europe/CRÈME), FSquared’s work with Balfour Beatty, summary of learning to date
How to address ODA contract clauses: strategy and tactics for activity, monitoring and reporting
Business benefits: specific examples of SMEs who add value to the supply chains of large purchasing organisations
Next steps
The Benefits
Supplier diversity is a key element of London 2012’s legacy commitment. This workshop will help achieve this important objective. Participating contractors observed that they are now encountering supplier diversity-type clauses in many tenders and contracts. The information shared will help them address these requirements and contract clauses.
A few days later, FSquared delivered a longer, more detailed workshop on supplier diversity to one of the companies represented at this ODA workshop. The ODA workshop served to ‘prime’ discussion at the later workshop, so that discussion was more far-reaching, detailed and productive than might otherwise have been anticipated.
The Need
Contractors to London 2012 have contract requirements around supplier diversity, including the requirement to monitor and report on the types of companies competing for and winning their business and to push these requirements down their supply chain. This workshop was organised to help the contractors understand why they should and how they can undertake this activity.
The Response
FSquared has supported specific London 2012 contractors and many other public and private sector organisations to implement and monitor supplier diversity. We identified the issues that the ODA wished to address with their contractors. Following this, we designed a workshop which set these issues out the ODA contractors and then offered practical advice on how to address the issues as well as guidance on softer issues around supplier diversity.
The workshop was entitled “Supplier Diversity and Monitoring: Why it matters to London 2012 and how can you achieve it”.
Workshop content included:
The Benefits
Supplier diversity is a key element of London 2012’s legacy commitment. This workshop will help achieve this important objective. Participating contractors observed that they are now encountering supplier diversity-type clauses in many tenders and contracts. The information shared will help them address these requirements and contract clauses.
A few days later, FSquared delivered a longer, more detailed workshop on supplier diversity to one of the companies represented at this ODA workshop. The ODA workshop served to ‘prime’ discussion at the later workshop, so that discussion was more far-reaching, detailed and productive than might otherwise have been anticipated.