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Sustainable Procurement Review

Benchmarking your performance

The CIPS Sustainable Procurement Review will help your organisation eliminate waste, become more energy efficient and save money. It can also help to enhance your organisation’s image and act as a motivator for both staff and suppliers.

How it works

Your organisation will be audited by one of our dedicated and qualified sustainability auditors. During the audit and after you will have access to an online self-assessment tool to guide you through all the stages of the Review and help you to keep track of your results. Any best practice areas of your organisation will be celebrated by CIPS Sustainable Procurement Awards. Passing the review will result in a gold, solver or bronze award (globally recognised sustainability awards from the world’s leading procurement institute).

The award is valid for 18 months. It is designed to promote and create efficiencies in the procurement part of your organisation and can reduce the cost of wastage in other areas of your business. In addition to saving money, this can have a positive impact on the environment and a positive impact on customers who are increasingly demanding products and services that have been produced in a socially and environmentally responsible way.

Register now for your organisation’s access to the CIPS Sustainable Procurement Review.

Features and Benefits

  • support from a dedicated qualified sustainability auditor
  • true performance benchmarking
  • awards for your organisation's achievement, which can be used to promote the organisation
  • demonstration of best practice, giving your organisation a competitive edge
  • sustainable products and services to enhance your organisation’s reputation
  • improved procurement efficiencies and reduced wastage costs
  • meets UK and Europe legislation and aspirations on sustainability

Costs and Registration

The CIPS Sustainable Procurement Review costs just R26,000 + VAT per audit, which is valid for 18 months. It possesses a good return on investment (with substantial savings to be made in minimised wastage) and is equally useful for SMEs and larger organisations.

Testimonials

"The UNOPS Procurement & Supply Chain Practice Group (P&SCPG) as part of its recent CIPS certification undertook the newly established Sustainable Procurement Review. UNOPS has been developing its Sustainable Procurement capacity since 2008, the review proved to be a very useful exercise, allowing us to take stock of our progress against  the very well developed framework of sustainable procurement review. The framework of the sustainable procurement review provides a very good roadmap upon which to base the future development of our sustainable procurement competence while providing the opportunity for benchmarking against other actors in this area."

Niels Ramm, Procurement Office, UNOPS