ARCBLUE SERVICES

Strategies, Plans & Frameworks

Focus your organisation’s social and sustainable procurement roadmap

Identify opportunities and focus your organisation’s social and sustainable procurement roadmap

We support clients that need help in accelerating their Social or Sustainable Procurement journey though diagnostics, strategy development and implementation. We focus on the integration of sustainability principles into your end-to-end procurement processes.

We can help your organisation assess social and sustainable procurement maturity against best practice, legislative requirements and international standards, and get recommendations for improving maturity over time. We support our clients to establish a formal approach for leveraging their procurement activities to achieve measurable and meaningful social and sustainable impact – including developing objectives/targets, governance and policies and processes to embed social and sustainable procurement.

We can also help you to ensure social and sustainable procurement risks and opportunities are considered during procurement planning and are incorporated into sourcing processes. Our experienced team can assist you to mobilise and embed new practices, with hands-on change management assistance and guidance from trusted subject matter experts.

We work with private sector and public sector organisations, supporting them in delivering holistic approaches to achieving social, environmental and economic outcomes.

POLICY

For Procurement Leaders and Executive Leadership

ArcBlue supports you to develop Social & Sustainable Procurement strategies, policies and practices in your organisation. Following stakeholder workshops and a documentation review, we develop a Social & Sustainable Procurement Strategy that meets your unique organisational requirements.

This may include:

Reviewing your current organisational practices and your compliance with Modern Slavery and the ISO landscape
Developing Social procurement strategies, policies and frameworks
Undertaking an opportunity analysis or a review of your current documentation
Providing strategic advice on projects and tendering
Providing support to mobilise and embed social procurement programs
Providing support to engage with and develop your supply chain including SME’s, social or Indigenous suppliers.

PROJECTS

For Project Directors, Buyers & Government agencies

ArcBlue can support you through the Social and Sustainable Procurement aspects of the planning, going to market, managing and monitoring phases of your major project. We can also embed an expert within your organisation. Our specialist Consultants can work with you to develop a strategy.

This may include:

Reviewing documentation and engagement with stakeholders to develop a Supply and Demand Analysis
Developing Targets to optimise the practical achievement of objectives
Establishing a governance advisory committee, including key Government and organisation representatives
Developing a Roadmap to achieve targets
Supplier Mobilisation, working with suppliers post contract award to establish effective service partnerships and delivery approaches
Monitoring, reporting and reviewing progress, including the development and implementation of data and data visualisation dashboards

Sustainable Procurement Maturity Diagnostic

Review how Sustainable Procurement principles are embedded and gain a Roadmap for future improvements

Our Sustainable Procurement Maturity Diagnostic assesses the maturity and effectiveness of policies and practices in the context of sustainability. Our standardised methodology assesses the maturity and effectiveness of your Sustainable Procurement policies and practices throughout your end-to-end procurement process (aligned to ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement Standard) to identify gaps to be addressed.

It is integrated into our standard Procurement Diagnostic as the ‘eighth dimension’ within our 9 Dimensions of Procurement Excellence model, or can be delivered independently.

We work with our clients to understand the current state in order to identify recommendations for the future, supported by a roadmap for improvement. Our team then gather information, assess the information against the Sustainable Procurement maturity assessment, then develop the findings into a structured recommendations report and business case including an implementation plan.

Need help to identify opportunities and focus your Social & Sustainable Procurement Strategy?

We support clients that need help in accelerating their Social or Sustainable Procurement journey though diagnostics, strategy development & implementation. We focus on the integration of sustainability principles into your end-to-end procurement processes.