Social Procurement
Empower your social procurement initiatives.
Get the right tools to drive positive social outcomes and meet sourcing best practice.
Our solutions make it easy for you to find suppliers locally and ethically. Use procurement to become a force for change.
- Unimarket connects buyers with verified social enterprise & supplier diversity databases
- Discover and source from ESG, social, disability & minority-owned businesses
- A platform partnered with bodies representing leading social enterprises
What leveraging procurement spend for social impact looks like:
Connect buyers with verified suppliers in one platform: Our innovative procurement technology consolidates prequalified suppliers from top social procurement organisations into a secure, unified procurement platform. This provides buyers with a comprehensive, reliable network of verified suppliers in one place.
Simplify sourcing with best practices: With geo-location technology, it's easy to find local, verified suppliers that meet your sourcing needs. Our award-winning tools streamline the entire sourcing, evaluation, and selection process, ensuring good governance and procurement probity.
Leverage data-driven insights: Our advanced reporting and governance controls promote transparency and provide actionable insights. Analytics enable reporting against corporate social responsibility (CSR) targets, organisational procurement policies, and compliance with policy frameworks.
Social Impact badges: With our Go to Market module, quickly identify suppliers making a positive impact through initiatives like modern slavery statements, carbon-neutral goals, or community contributions.
Support key policy initiatives: Unimarket aligns with initiatives like the Federal Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP), the Victorian Government Social Procurement Framework, and the Queensland Procurement Policy, offering real-time enterprise reporting for compliance, transparency, and auditability.
Who we work with:
BuyAbility - Connecting Disability Enterprises with businesses across Australia
Social Traders - Creating jobs through social enterprise
Kinaway - Supporting Victorian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business owners
givvable - Helping buyers discover verified ESG suppliers under six key ESG themes
FAQs:
1. What is social procurement?
Social procurement is about creating value when purchasing goods or services, whether that is environmental, social or cultural. This can involve finding the right suppliers with the right credentials for a sourcing event through to making this an integrated part of your procurement process and business operations.
2. Why is social procurement important?
Social procurement, when done correctly, has the potential to drive local economic development, support diverse communities and minority-owned businesses, and can result in more sustainable procurement practices. And on top of that, it doesn't require additional funding or budget for an organisation.
3. How can Unimarket help with social procurement?
VendorPanel's integrated Go to Market platform makes engaging with social enterprises and ESG suppliers simple and efficient. Through our integration partners, verified data is pulled into the platform, allowing buyers to view and engage with suppliers with relevant credentials, all at the point of purchase.