Indigenous Business Procurement Workshops

City of Parramatta

The objective of the Indigenous Procurement workshop series was to develop a strategic approach to increasing the engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses across the Parramatta LGA.

Evidence has demonstrated that one of the biggest challenges faced by non-Aboriginal businesses and organisations, is a lack of understanding around how they can effectively engage and imbed Aboriginal businesses into their supply chains.

In order to position City of Parramatta as a leader in local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business engagement, Ngurra Advisory undertook the following scope of work:

• A desktop review of effective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Procurement Strategies

• Development of a City of Parramatta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Procurement Strategy;

• Development of a Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Businesses Engagement Toolkit

• Facilitation of 2x Indigenous Business Procurement Workshops

Ngurra ensured that cultural practices were applied throughout each facet of the project, in a bid to embed practices as business as usual processes and procedures in future City of Parramatta procurement opportunities. This resulted in over 30 Aboriginal businesses partaking in the information series.