Consulting
Our comprehensive experience with sustainable procurement program development, data tracking and verification includes the following services:
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Research and analysis of potential opportunities, risks, and the relationships of a social procurement program to support existing social and economic goals.
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Creation of social value objectives based on strategic plans.
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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.
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Design of a social procurement policy and implementation framework appropriate for local goals and supplier capacity.
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Project specific advice on including social procurement and CBA criteria in RFx and project deliverables.
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Training and coaching on social procurement and CBAs for internal and external stakeholders to support knowledge of CBAs, relationship building and capacity.
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Development of implementation processes that includes pilots, testing, and evaluation of RFx language and weighting, inclusive hiring, and project related investments.
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Defined metrics, data collection processes and measurement reporting tools to match specific goals and objectives.
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Collecting, analyzing, and reporting on project-specific socio-economic outcomes.
What to expect
Our Approach
Working in collaboration with your organization 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 organizational 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.
Project Portfolio
Our project expertise and delivery is founded on working with a diverse group of clients to achieve community goals.
City of Winnipeg
We conducted extensive external engagement to develop the Sustainable Procurement Action Plan and we are now leading the 3-year implementation.
British Columbia Social Procurement Initiative
We are a partner in supporting over 44 local governments and institutions across British Columbia to work collaboratively to design and implement social procurement for rural and remote municipalities.
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
We are working to develop and implement the Social Procurement Program. We are also supporting the municipality to develop an Indigenous Procurement Strategy.
City of Vancouver
As the Community Benefit Agreements Implementation Partner we designed the social value outcome definitions, community and industry engagement process, data collection tools, standards for metrics, and the evaluation and reporting protocols.
City of Peterborough
We are supporting the City of Peterborough to develop their social procurement policy and implementation plan.
Government of British Columbia
We worked with Citizens Services to create a new government-wide Social Value Menu and set of tools to support with social procurement implementation that can help to achieve government mandates and goals.
PCL Construction
We are the Independent Third Party Monitor on the New St. Paul’s Hospital. Our work includes monitoring and measuring outcomes and supporting connections to create community benefits.
Chandos Construction
We are collaborating with Chandos to integrate social enterprises into the construction industry supply chain.
City of Lethbridge
We worked with the City of Lethbridge to explore a Benefits-Driven Procurement Program.
City of Calgary
We designed the City’s social procurement policy and supported the implementation of the policy to enhance the local social enterprise, diversity, and SME sector.
City of Surrey
We designed the social procurement guide and implementation framework for the Infrastructure Canada Community Employment Benefits for the Coastal Floodplain Adaptation Projects.
Simon Fraser University
We supported the inclusion of social enterprise and Indigenous owned suppliers into Simon Fraser University’s catering contract opportunities.
Our Consulting Network
We collaborate with our trusted consultants across Canada bringing local, community based knowledge and specialized expertise to support the delivery of our work.
