Purchasing professionals have been warned about the practice of “black-cladding” in Australian public procurement.
The practice typically involves non-indigenous businesses establishing dubious partnerships with indigenous interests in order to improve their chances of securing low-value Commonwealth contracts set aside under the Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP), or artificially creating supplier entities to meet mandatory minimum indigenous participation requirements (MMRs) for higher value contracts.
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