Opening Markets and Procurement

Opening markets

Table of Contents

• Social procurement and its implications for social enterprise : a literature review
• DTI Toolkit for Social Enterprise
• More for Your Money: A guide to procuring from Social Enterprises
• Social Enterprise Purchasing Toolkit
• Using Public Procurement to Achieve Social Outcomes

Social procurement and its implications for social enterprise : a literature review
Produced by the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies. A working paper by Jo Barraket and Janelle Weissman that reviews the available academic and policy literature to identify the possibilities and limitations of social procurement, and the factors that enable its implementation.  
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29060/

DTI Toolkit for Social Enterprise
Produced by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry. Aims to help social enterprises navigate public procurement processes.
http://www.s-p-i-n.co.uk/assets/dtitoolkitforsocialenterprise.pdf

More for Your Money: A guide to procuring from Social Enterprises
Produced by the Social Enterprise Coalition and the New Economics Foundation. http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/data/files/publications/sec_procurement_guide_final_06.pdf

Social Enterprise Purchasing Toolkit
Produced by enterprising non-profits, this Toolkit helps businesses, organizations and governments encorporate social enterprise purchasing into their procurment practices to assist them in meeting their CSR objectives.
http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/se-purchasing-toolkit

Using Public Procurement to Achieve Social Outcomes
By Christopher McCrudden. This article provides a historical overview as well as a current snapshot of government contracting as a tool to produce desired social policy outcomes.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118771653/PDFSTART