Leverage your existing spend to create lasting social benefit

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Social Procurement - using purchasing power for social good - is gaining momentum across Australia, particularly for major government contracts

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Governments are increasingly looking to large infrastructure projects to deliver long term benefits for local communities. Benefits need to be tangible to local businesses particularly SME’S, individuals and families at each stage of a project, from conception to implementation and beyond. 

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A truly successful infrastructure project delivers sustained social benefits including skills development, jobs and other economic opportunities, and enhanced social cohesion, and leaves a lasting legacy for a local community.

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We have a proven track record of developing reliable supply chains of community organisations, social support services, and employment and training organisations to address identified issues in a local community as part of a long-term infrastructure project.

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i-exchange offers an end-to-end approach to ensure that bid returnables are aligned to Government policy intentions, with clear and ambitious social value outcomes. Our extensive contract negotiation experience ensures that a balance between social value outcomes and commercial success is maintained.

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Our end-to-end approach involves:

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• Working with your project team to develop a coherent Social Value Strategy for all phases of the project

• Incorporating social outcomes and measurement frameworks into the project deliverables including, where applicable: Local Content Requirements, Indigenous Procurement Strategies, Indigenous Participation targets, Gender Equality Action Plans (GEAPs) and Major Project Skills Guarantee (MPSG) polices and associated targets

• Testing the Social Value Strategy with the funder

• Using our extensive local knowledge and stakeholder networks to accelerate supply chain development with social value partners

• Collaborating early with procurement departments and supply chain partners to identify opportunities for social value creation.

• Integrating approaches with other local infrastructure schemes and federally funded programs to minimise costs

• Embedding social value into contracts management and operational models to ensure social value commitments agreed at the procurement stage are actually delivered

• Proposing frameworks for longitudinal monitoring of outcomes to demonstrate social benefits delivered throughout the project

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