October 26, 2023

Winners – Local Government Procurement Awards 2022 Local Government Procurement (LGP) once again congratulates the winners of Local Government Procurement Awards 2022. The Local Government Procurement Awards were launched in 2012 to celebrate procurement professionals or groups who are making a difference in local government and their community. The Awards recognise excellence and best practice

Influencing Positive Change – Have Your Say In the Next CRG White Paper In October 2021 LGP’s Customer Reference Group (CRG) released a white paper titled Challenges of Innovative Projects and/or Preferential Treatment Under the Tendering Process in NSW Local Government with the aim of influencing positive change. The CRG is ready to commence a

We are pleased to share with you our FY22 Annual Report. The report shares what we have delivered, demonstrates our performance, and quantifies our value to stakeholders and the NSW local government sector.  Some of the highlights include: $720 million contract spend through our contracts Sector savings of $66 million or 300,000 resource hours $953,000

Welcome to 2022 and a Happy New Year to you all. We here at LGP hope that you all had a lovely break and managed to come back in 2022, refreshed and relaxed. LGP is set for another year where we look to make changes that lift our performance and deliver new and better value

Did you know that LGP’s contracts are vast and varied to cover your council’s summer requirements? Summer is at hand and it’s time to get your Swimming Pools, Parks and buildings ready while keeping pests away. Did you know that the Minor & Major Civil Works Including Construction Materials – LGP420 is so vast and

March proved to be another horrendous month of weather for our councils across the state, seems April might provide more of the same. As a result, we are now seeing councils badly affected, contacting LGP to talk about how we can help with Emergency Procurement. Procurement & Disaster Recovery Our focus is to help councils

As we continue to emerge from the disruption of the pandemic, LGP is enjoying being back working face-to-face with council and our suppliers. In the absence of a Business Development Manager in the Southern Region (announcement coming soon) I have had the pleasure over past five weeks meeting with and visiting 20 different councils, ROCs

Modern Slavery Circular On the 11th of April, the Office of Local Government released Circular 22-09 ‘Councils’ obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2018’. The Circular defines what constitutes Modern Slavery and explains as per the Modern Slavery Act 2018 legislation, that councils are now required to take reasonable steps to ensure procured goods and

On Thursday the 3rd of March we launched the first ever Procurement Capability Grant Program for local government. LGP has committed $100,000 to be distributed to projects valued from $3,000, up to a maximum of $25,000. This latest initiative from LGP has been designed to remove the ever-present barrier, that councils do not have enough

I’m pleased to announce that Phill Scott has been voted on to the World Commerce and Contracting Association (WorldCC) Council. www.worldcc.com Whilst Phill will continue in his role as Chief Procurement Officer here at LGP, this is a wonderful opportunity for local government to be represented and to influence development of procurement and commerce at