Consulting

Our comprehensive experience with sustainable procurement program development, data tracking and verification includes the following services:

  • Research and analysis of potential opportunities, risks, and the relationships of a social procurement program to support existing social and economic goals.
  • Creation of social value objectives based on strategic plans.
  • Facilitated engagement with multi-sector stakeholders to assess potential opportunities, risks, capacity and interest in delivering on social procurement and community benefit agreement (CBA) contracts and projects.
  • Design of a social procurement policy and implementation framework appropriate for local goals and supplier capacity.
  • Project specific advice on including social procurement and CBA criteria in RFx and project deliverables.
  • Training and coaching on social procurement and CBAs for internal and external stakeholders to support knowledge of CBAs, relationship building and capacity.
  • Development of implementation processes that includes pilots, testing, and evaluation of RFx language and weighting, inclusive hiring, and project related investments.
  • Defined metrics, data collection processes and measurement reporting tools to match specific goals and objectives.
  • Collecting, analyssing, and reporting on project-specific socio-economic outcomes.

Our Approach

Working in collaboration with your organisation and our industry-leading strategic partners, we will design a package that meets your social procurement goals.

 

Strategic Planning

Guide the direction of your social procurement with a selection of objectives that are aligned with your organisational goals.

Engagement

Work with stakeholder groups and departments to ensure what is designed will be supported and useful.

Implementation

Putting a social procurement policy into practice is key to creating impact. This includes integrating processes, reporting tools, communications and guiding change management.

Tools and Measurement

Based on your goals, a wide variety of tested procurement tools can be customized for your context.

Continual Support

As your social procurement activities change and grow over time we can continue to work together to help achieve your goals.

Our Consulting Network

We collaborate with our trusted consultants across Ireland bringing local, community based knowledge and specialised expertise to support the delivery of our work.