Download the Social Procurement Playbook
Engaging in social procurement means better ESG results and a stronger, more diverse supply chain, using budget you already have.
Social value now decides up to 30% of some tenders. Is your business ready to win new work?
This practical guide explains what social procurement is, the value it creates, and how to embed it across your organisation. Every dollar spent can create social value. Get the free Social Procurement Playbook and learn how to spend for good.
Clothing the Gaps
What you'll take away from this guide
- What is social procurement?
- How does social procurement create value?
- What are the industry trends shaping social procurement and the impact outcomes created?
- Tips to make the switch easier and how to influence others
- Step-by-step guide on getting started
Ready to increase social procurement across your organisation?
How Social Traders enables social procurement
Social Traders is Australia's industry body for social enterprise and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we've been the bridge between social enterprises and corporate Australia, helping organisations turn social procurement from an intention into a program that delivers social value.
Strategy and plan
We help you set the ambition, build the policy, and design a program that fits how your organisation already buys and innovate along the way.
Projects
From your first shortlist to a live tender, we help you find the right for-purpose suppliers and structure the work so more of them can participate.
Training
Advisory sessions and in-house training build your team's confidence and technical skills at any stage of your journey.
Credible reporting
We’ll independently verify your social spend and show who your social contribution is reaching: First Nations peoples, long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and more.
Supplier development
With our support, your organisation can build diverse suppliers’ capability to win larger opportunities and create greater impact together.
Strengthening supply chains
We help your commercial suppliers and subcontractors embed social procurement to deliver more social value with you.
Join the leaders turning good intentions into measurable impact.
Whether you're setting your first social procurement policy or scaling an established program, Social Traders is your partner every step of the way: strategy and planning, project support, training and supplier development, backed by a certified network and nearly 20 years of data.
More than 300 organisations have partnered with Social Traders since 2018 to turn spend into measurable impact. Be among the leaders driving business for good.