Social Purchasing GOAL: Integrate Social Values into your Procurement Policies and Practices PROCESS: Motivate and Evaluate Suppliers to Include Social Impact as Part of their Contract Requirements

Integration Motivation Resources Leadership Social Purchasing Framework

Five Easy Steps Define Social Impact Goals Prioritize & Score Them Evaluate Bids Monitor Implementation Report to Stakeholders

Step One Define what your company priorities are and What you want to measure Promote local purchasing Provide training for new or current employees Hire from targeted groups: youth, immigrants, etc. Include social enterprise sub-contractors Other

Step Two Decide on the weighting value of each priority How important is this piece of your social objectives? Give it a specific weighting percentage

Step Three Score the proponents offering Use a questionnaire that allows answers to provide you a scoring range and evaluation framework

Scorecard Template: to be adapted for use to your social outcome priorities Decide weight percentages Score Each Out of Possible 15 Weight Percentage For Priority #1 Score Out of 15 Multiply by Priority #1 Evaluation Score Weight Percentage For Priority #2 Score Out of 15 Multiply by Priority #2 Evaluation Score Weight Percentage For Priority #3 Score Out of 15 Multiply by Priority #3 Evaluation Score Priority #1 Defined Priority #2 Defined Priority #3 Defined TOTAL

Step Four Monitor Implementation Based Upon Contract Agreements and Benchmarks

Step Five Report to Stakeholders Shareholders Employees Community

Social Purchasing Toolkit David LePage