Every route connects you to a community. Make sure your supply chain does too.
Transport and logistics don't just move people and freight. They can move communities forward. Embed social procurement in your supply chain, and every contract builds stronger, more resilient places. Partner with Social Traders and turn everyday spend into measurable change for the communities your network reaches.
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Social procurement is already reshaping transport and logistics.
Legislation drives transport's social procurement more than anything else.
100% of transport members work with Social Traders to meet mandates and reporting obligations, compared to 42% across all members.
Our procurement experts stay across every change in every jurisdiction, so nothing catches your team off guard.
The next wave of global reporting standards is coming.
Social risk is becoming as material as climate risk once was.
As part of the TISFD, the global alliance building disclosure standards for social impact, Social Traders keeps members ahead of the curve, with reporting that meets today's requirements and adapts as they change.
Social procurement isn't a phase.
71% of Social Traders members grew their impact spend in FY25 from FY24. For buyers who return to a supplier, spend grows even further, up 47% in the second year.
This isn't a trial, it's a trajectory. Leading organisations recognise the strength in partnering with social enterprises to deliver social value.
When responding to tenders, we can quickly source verified social enterprises from Social Traders live database that align with procurement requirements, making it easier to meet social value weighting with confidence.
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Senior Advisor Industry Capability and Inclusion, Terra Verde
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A tram seat's second life, and a pathway to work.
Yarra Trams and SisterWorks, a certified social enterprise supporting migrant and refugee women into work, have built a supply relationship spanning textile upcycling and rail safety manufacturing. Since 2022, it's created 833 hours of employment, a $125,000 annual social and economic impact, and diverted over 4 tonnes of waste from landfill each year.
A community partnership has become a genuine supply chain relationship, and an award-winning model for what social procurement can achieve.
How social procurement policy shapes your bid, state by state.
Each state and territory takes a different approach to social value in tender requirements, and the policy landscape shifts regularly. Use the links below to go straight to the source, so your bid team is always working from the current version.
Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework governs how the Victorian Government procures goods, services and construction, and is widely regarded as the most mature, highest-expectation social procurement policy in the country.
Depending on spend thresholds and location, buyers must seek out social benefit suppliers, unbundle procurement to improve their access, or set spend targets suppliers must show how they'll meet. Social benefit suppliers include Aboriginal businesses certified by Kinaway or Supply Nation, and social enterprises certified by Social Traders.
Bidding into Victorian construction work without certified suppliers already in the supply chain means starting from behind.
NSW Government procurement policy requires every procurement opportunity to consider social outcomes and sustainability, with requirements for engaging SMEs, regional businesses, Aboriginal enterprises and Australian Disability Enterprises, and social enterprises are named as an encouraged supplier type in the NSW Buyer Guide.
A newer local procurement direction also applies to contracts of $7.5 million or more across goods, services, construction and ICT: agencies must prioritise local suppliers or document why not under an "if not, why not" requirement.
For construction bidders, supplier diversity is already expected to be part of the bid, not something built once asked.
From 1 January 2026, the Queensland Procurement Policy 2026 became the government's overarching procurement policy, built on five strategic pillars, the fifth of which commits to building a diverse supplier base, including social enterprises and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses.
It's a new policy, which means bidders who move on it now will have a head start once agencies start applying it in practice.
The Western Australian Social Procurement Framework applies to all state agencies and sets Community Outcomes that feed into value-for-money assessments under the WA Procurement Rules, across all procurement types including construction.
WA hasn't published detailed supplier-certification requirements the way some other states have, but the direction is the same: social outcomes are now formally part of how value for money gets assessed. The 2026-27 WA Budget adds weight to this direction, with the Cook Government committing $2.8 million to a new Employment of People with Disability Procurement Policy. The Department of Treasury and Finance WA has been tasked with creating, implementing and administering it. With around 100,000 Western Australians with disability currently not working, the policy is designed so that WA's 130+ government agencies and departments can meet their procurement needs while supporting businesses that employ people with disability, creating jobs in the process.
South Australia's Economic and Social Procurement Guideline sets out how public authorities build economic and social outcomes into everyday buying, and explicitly names social enterprises - organisations that reinvest the majority of their profit into their purpose - as a recognised social benefit supplier type.
It's guidance rather than a hard mandate, but it's a clear signal of what SA agencies are looking for.
Tasmania's Buy Local Policy requires an Economic and Social Benefits Test on all open tenders valued at $100,000 or more, weighted at 30% of the overall evaluation criteria, and a Tasmanian Industry Participation Plan is mandatory for contracts of $5 million or more.
That 30% weighting is significant: on a Tasmanian Government tender, the social and economic benefits response carries almost a third of the score.
The ACT's Government Procurement (Charter of Procurement Values) Direction 2020 applies to all new procurements regardless of value, committing agencies to weigh ethical, environmental, economic and social factors.
On top of that, an Ethical Treatment of Workers Evaluation applies to high-risk industries, including construction, for procurements of $200,000 or more, and the Canberra Region Local Industry Participation Policy requires a Local Industry Participation plan for construction contracts of $5 million or more.
For ACT bidders, that's two separate requirements stacking at the $5 million-plus mark.
The NT's procurement framework is built around "Value for Territory", assessing the overall benefit of a purchase, not just price. Its Aboriginal procurement policy gives Aboriginal Business Enterprises structured opportunities to compete. The Territory doesn't yet have a dedicated social enterprise procurement policy the way other states do, which makes it the a jurisdiction where bidders genuinely have first-mover room before that changes.
Your supply chain goes everywhere you do. Make sure it leaves something good behind.
Mandates, reporting and community expectations are growing every year. Partner with Social Traders to build an ethical supply chain that meets requirements and earns real trust.