Procurement

we support our partners to get more social value through sustainable and responsible procurement

The Need: Your organisation can ask for and get higher social value and sustainability impacts through procurement activities. Developing a successful response to the issues this raises may be challenging and you will need to develop an integrated approach.

Our Response: We help in a range of ways; from supporting policy drafting, through facilitating sustainability workshops, to helping design and develop the tools and techniques needed to deliver more sustainable procurement. We can take you through the following steps:

1. Step 1 – Policy: Your sustainable procurement policy needs to be the starting point from which your strategy develops. Policy needs to be carefully considered and articulated so that it connects not just with EU, UK Government and local policy drivers but also reflects the business needs and aspirations of your organisation. Having clarity of policy and purpose will enable the organisation to move forward more effectively. We help organisations to identify and articulate just what sustainability means to them – helping them progress beyond broad and sweeping concepts towards specific sustainability themes which can be explored through procurement.
2. Step 2 – Strategy:  A Sustainable Procurement Strategy provides the detailed understanding as to how your policy will be delivered. We can support you to develop a vision and a structure for key issues such as governance, training, stakeholder communication and supply chain management. We’ll support you to create and embed the right measurement processes to demonstrate your impact in delivering increased sustainability outcomes and higher levels of social value.
3. Step 3 – Tools: Whether it is in commissioning projects, services or goods, advertising opportunities, pre-qualifying firms, specifying requirements, marking responses or making final selection decisions, we’ll help to develop the tools and techniques you will need to succeed in delivering your sustainable procurement policy aspirations.
4. Step 4 – Delivery: Truly sustainable procurement does not end with the contract award. We’ll help you to understand and measure the wider community impacts that your supply chain can deliver working in partnership with you on sustainability.

The Benefits: We’ll make sure that we support you to develop an approach that is right for your individual organisation, get buy-in from your stakeholders, create an approach which is understandable and accessible and make sure that individuals understand their roles and how they can implement the policy, strategy or new approach. In partnership with you, we’ll develop a streamlined approach to procurement that is understood by all internal and external stakeholders.


Case study

Bradford Together




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