The Sustainable Procurement Roadmap
The Sustainable Procurement Roadmap provides a framework to guide Queensland government agencies to progressively implement sustainable procurement principles. The Roadmap illustrates the 'journey' to implementing sustainable procurement, in which the agency's sustainable procurement capability and performance is progressively built over time.
The Roadmap outlines five 'destination' points in the journey: foundation, embed, practice, enhance, and lead. As the agency progresses through each destination of the journey it reflects the increased level of sustainable procurement implementation and capability achieved. Each destination is guided by a key theme, which reflects the focus of sustainable procurement implementation of that stage, and includes indicators to help agencies identify key actions/steps which occur by that stage.
It is suggested that each agency use the Sustainable Procurement Roadmap and supporting notes as an overarching implementation framework, which will guide the development of a more detailed sustainable procurement implementation plan that is agency-specific.
An example of how an agency may use the Roadmap to develop an agency implementation plan is also provided.
Indicators have been drafted for the foundation stage only. However the development of the roadmap will see the introduction of indicators for each of the other destinations in the coming year.
The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office recommends that agencies should aim to achieve destination one by June 2009.
The sustainable procurement roadmap is modelled on the Business Sustainability Roadmap (EPA, Qld, March 2005) and on the Flexible Framework recommended by the Sustainable Procurement Task Force of the UK Dept for Environment).
Last updated May 2009
