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By working through the sources of guidance below, you will gain a better understanding of how your procurement actions can make an important contribution towards advancing sustainable development within your organisation. The sources below provide guidance on identifying opportunities for increasing the sustainability of your procurement choices.
Action Sustainability (external website) is a Social Enterprise set up to lead and inspire sustainable procurement. It supports and facilitates the Strategic Supply Chain group, a leading authority on sustainable procurement whose members are Directors and Senior Managers from the UK's leading private companies, government departments, professional institutes and academic organisations. It provides the latest thinking on sustainable procurement and is a good place to start.
Forum for the Future has developed a flowchart “The Sustainable Procurement Process” It shows the key steps involved in improving sustainability of procurement, as follows:
Forum for the Future (external website) is working with a number of public sector organisations, including councils and NHS trusts, to develop and implement a greater quality of sustainable procurement.
OGCbuying.solutions (external website), the trading arm of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), is one of the latest public sector organisations to join Forum for the Future. Over the next three years Forum for the Future will be working with OGCbuying.solutions to increase its sustainability credentials and improve the sustainability aspects of the goods and services made available to the public sector under its contracts. Working in partnership, Forum for the Future will be developing OGCbuying.solutions’ Sustainable Development strategy, reviewing its policies and creating a sustainable procurement toolkit for category and contract managers, to ensure sustainability is built into procurement processes.
Action Sustainability
Action Sustainability (external website) is a Social Enterprise set up to lead and inspire sustainable procurement. It supports and facilitates the Strategic Supply Chain group, a leading authority on sustainable procurement whose members are Directors and Senior Managers from the UK's leading private companies, government departments, professional institutes and academic organisations. It provides the latest thinking on sustainable procurement and is a good place to start.
Forum for the Future's "Sustainable Procurement Process"
Forum for the Future has developed a flowchart “The Sustainable Procurement Process” It shows the key steps involved in improving sustainability of procurement, as follows:
- Reduce demand.
- Specify sustainability.
- Favour sustainability.
- Improve suppliers.
Forum for the Future (external website) is working with a number of public sector organisations, including councils and NHS trusts, to develop and implement a greater quality of sustainable procurement.
OGCbuying.solutions
OGCbuying.solutions (external website), the trading arm of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), is one of the latest public sector organisations to join Forum for the Future. Over the next three years Forum for the Future will be working with OGCbuying.solutions to increase its sustainability credentials and improve the sustainability aspects of the goods and services made available to the public sector under its contracts. Working in partnership, Forum for the Future will be developing OGCbuying.solutions’ Sustainable Development strategy, reviewing its policies and creating a sustainable procurement toolkit for category and contract managers, to ensure sustainability is built into procurement processes.
