Sustainable Procurement Strategy 2018-2022 - Summary

1. Please respond by Wednesday 22 May

The London Borough of Hackney adopted an updated Sustainable Procurement Strategyin November 2018. This is aligned to the Council’s Sustainable Community Strategy and Mayor’s key strategic objectives. Download full strategy here

Sustainable Procurementmeans improving the efficiency of Council commercial spend to deliver major social and environmental benefits within our local community and nationally; to the extent that the Council can use their purchasing power, either unilaterally or by combining with other public sector organisations to influence the supply market.

This means using their purchasing power to address any adverse impact of their contracting activities on local communities and delivering added value (social, economic and environmental benefits to local people and communities)

The Strategy builds on the successes of previous work and sets out an ambitious programme for further improvements by:

Procuring green
     ●        Using renewable resources and preserving non-renewable ones
     ●        Reducing, reusing and recycling
     ●        Reducing CO2 emissions
     ●        Diverting from landfill and incineration
     ●        Using “whole life” costing, taking account of the cost of disposal and decommissioning
     ●        Purchasing sustainable timber products
     ●        Minimizing negative impact of freight associated with our procurement and contracting activities

Procuring for a better society
     ●        Promoting social innovation
     ●        Making payment on time to our suppliers
     ●        Encouraging local suppliers into the supply chain
     ●        Looking to improve regeneration and integration of our local community
     ●        Employment and skills initiatives including apprenticeships

Procuring Fair Delivery
     ●        Fulfilling our public sector equality duty
     ●        Ethical practices such as Fair Trade
     ●        Diversity (community, supplier and workforce)
     ●        Paying the London Living Wage
     ●        Tackling Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

Engagement and partnership working with the local voluntary and community sector is critical to the successful delivery of the strategy, therefore the Council are keen to hear your views on how we can all work together to deliver benefits to the community of Hackney.

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* 1. Are you aware of The Hackney Compact between the Council and Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)?

Yes

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* 2. Were you previously aware that Hackney Council has a new Sustainable Procurement Strategy?

Yes

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* 3. Would you be interested in attending a workshop to find out more about the strategy and how it can benefit local voluntary and community organisations like yours?

Yes

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* 4. Based on the Strategy summary, do you have feedback and ideas which you’d like to share with Local Authority procurement team to help shape delivery of these objectives?

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* 5. Please indicate your areas of interest (select all that apply):

Definition of “Sustainability” and “Social Value”

How the Local Authority can work in partnership with the sector to deliver benefits to the local community

Practical procurement advice - how to tender, how to find opportunities (including sub-contracting opportunities), bidding as a consortium

Agreeing contract deliverables and targets to meet Sustainability objectives

Other (please describe briefly)

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* 6. Contact details

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