Social procurement

Social procurement at MRPV

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Text: Social Procurement at MRPV.

Duncan Elliott, Chief Executive Officer, MRPV: At the core of our responsibilities is to deliver major road projects right across Victoria.

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Duncan Elliott: So whether that be from Westgate Tunnel and North East Link as mega projects, right through to dozens of critical metropolitan and regional road projects, that’s what we’re here to do. But it’s not just about building roads, it’s about building opportunities.

Text: Transforming Investment into Social Impact.

Alexis Davison, Executive Program Director, MRPV: MRPV has really set the standard for social procurement in Victoria. We have a dedicated team.

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Text: Offering dedicated support to industry partners.

Alexis Davison: Their purpose is to help us and our contractors do better.

Text: Creating collaboration opportunities.

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Alexis Davison: The Social Procurement Team will broker relationships between suppliers and contractors and our project team from the government side.

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Alexis Davison: We will have thresholds and KPIs.

Text: Ensuring policy compliance.

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Alexis Davison: We use those both in our evaluations, when we’re choosing contractors to do our projects, but also to hold them to account throughout the delivery of the project.

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Phillip Jackson, Director, Indigenous Civil Group: ICG is predominantly a plant hire business.

Text: Empowering Aboriginal businesses and communities.

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Phillip Jackson: MRPV has been crucial in exposing my people to what major projects look like. I think it’s crucial in developing employees to become, I suppose, self-empowered, and be able to take those learnings and become independent.

Sally Caruana, Chief Executive Officer, Sheforce: Sheforce is focused of creating career pathways for women into the construction industry.

Text: Providing employment opportunities for women.

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Sally Caruana: We have built a wonderful partnership with Negri Contractors on the MRPV Burwood Highway major road upgrade.

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Sally Caruana: Most of our people that work with us come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Sally Caruana: Having this project, that was a long-term project, provided consistency for our people was key, ‘cause it actually helped them to have ongoing work on a construction site.

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Rosalie Bennett, Social Procurement & Inclusion Mgr, West Gate Tunnel: We work with Transurban in conjunction with MRPV. So we have a really seamless relationship where we’re all trying to seek those outcomes where it enacts social change.

Vision: View of West Gate Tunnel breakthrough and construction workers walking through tunnel.

Rosalie Bennett: Through the West Gate Tunnel Project we have seen the changes take place over the course of the last few years, and what social impact means to the industry.

Text: Enhancing supply chain capacity.

Vision: View of construction work inside West Gate Tunnel. Aerial view of highway interchange.

Text: Driving industry appreciation for social impact.

Nick Newby, Social Procurement & Inclusion Mgr, BMD: We’re always working closely with the MRPV team to identify new avenues for social enterprises or indigenous businesses and/or with capabilities of other organisations.

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Text: Enhancing supply chain capacity.

Rachael Lee, Director Sustainability & Social Outcomes, Spark North East Link: Construction is such an interesting industry to be in. It’s project to project but if you look at it as a whole, like MRPV, and as a Victorian kind of infrastructure delivery authority, how can we work together to use the opportunity that construction brings.

Text: Fostering strategic partnerships.

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Alexis Davison: At MRPV we believe in more than just infrastructure, we want to see people in disadvantaged cohorts do better.

Text: Supporting priority jobseekers.

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Alexis Davison: We want to see people in sustainable jobs. We want more women in our industry. We have an incredible buying power and we’re trying to use that buying power to impact society and change.

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Text: Big Build Roads. Australian Government. Victoria State Government.