Procurement Strategy

The procurement strategy for Inner West Council aims to establish a robust and transparent procurement framework that aligns with the council’s values of integrity, respect, innovation, compassion, and collaboration. It is the overarching strategy that defines how the policies, procedures, and associated strategies work together to achieve better procurement for our community and for our planet.

Procurement at Inner West Council is centre-led, although some controls are centralised. This allows us to seize opportunities and proactively mitigate risks to improve outcomes for Council, our stakeholders and the community. Council has previously been independently reviewed and benchmarked as an emerging leader within the local government sector, and this overarching strategy supporting a robust framework will serve as the blueprint for Inner West to achieve procurement excellence.

Framework

Procurement refines and administers a framework that inspires confidence and trust in the procurement strategy. It also concentrates on increasing internal stakeholder capability. By encouraging and supporting our internal stakeholders Council can achieve sustainable, governance and ethical outcomes.

There are four distinct pillars in the procurement framework:

1. Governance controls, ethical, sustainable
2. Ethical, sustainable, local, social and Indigenous procurement
3. Process/tools
4. Performance monitoring

View the strategy

You can view the strategy here:

• Procurement Strategy (PDF 1.6MB)