One of the simplest building blocks of Australia and Aotearoa’s economies are exchanges of goods and services between organisations. You see it in your everyday life when you stand in the dairy aisle of your local grocer and you contemplate which cheese you’re going to buy. As the end beneficiary, you’re weighing up the pro’s and con’s using your own personal criteria … which could be anything: How much does it cost? Where was it made? How far has it travelled? Will my organics-loving partner approve? And of course, does it taste good?!

But if you go upstream, someone within the grocer organisation has had to make a call about which blocks of cheese to source. Once again, the criteria by which they make that decision has a significant impact on the benefits to their stakeholders - customers, community, environment, workers and potentially shareholders.

Sit back and relax because you’re in for a treat, as Jas Qadir (PhD- systems approaches, public investment and broader outcomes, and Principal Procurement Specialist at New Zealand Government Procurement) and Dr Seán Barnes walk us through the potential and power of procurement.

Links:

PhD- systems approaches, public investment and broader outcomes, Jas Qadir (https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/15233/TrichurKhabeerAbdulQ.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)

Professional Services Broader Outcomes Framework: Professional services broader outcomes | New Zealand Government Procurement and Property (https://www.procurement.govt.nz/contracts/consultancy-services/professional-services-broader-outcomes/)

akina.org.nz/

regenprojects.earth/