Procurement Profession
Learn about procurement and explore key industry resources.
The public sector procurement profession, including contract management, is the dedicated workforce that has the primary responsibility for championing government outcomes through agency procurement spend in collaboration with service providers.
Why procurement?
Career opportunities
Industry resources
What is Procurement?
Our video gives you a taste of how government procurement delivers economic, social and environmental outcomes for Australia. Be part of it!
What is Procurement?
CIPS Futures Podcast with Emma & Sam
Exploring the forces that are about to shape the lives of procurement and supply professionals, with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
Resources
After extensive community consultation, in conjunction with international procurement professional bodies and the private sector, the APCC's Procurement Capability Development Forum and the Procurement and Contracting Network has finalised the following documents which provide a standard role definition of procurement and list of the core capabilities necessary to support a career in procurement.
ANZ Public Sector Procurement Standard
The Australasian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC), representing Australian and New Zealand government jurisdictions, has developed a five-year collaborative Australasian Procurement Professionalisation Strategy to deliver a professional procurement capability that delivers effective solutions to achieve public outcomes.
If you want to make a difference, then this is the career for you.
Testimonials
“In 2022, the ACT Government delivered a comprehensive Procurement Reform Program to ensure the ACT Government Procurement Framework continues to support government business, our economy and our community. As part of the reform program, we are uplifting the capability of our procurement workforce.
The APCC Capability and Workforce Strategy has provided a structured framework for the ACT Government to use to support the design of a consistent framework to support the uplift of the capacity and capability of our workforce and the development of new learning and development initiatives.
The APCC Capability and Workforce Strategy also provides consistency across Australia and New Zealand supporting the portability of public sector procurement professionals as well as a consistent way to attract and retain new talent.”
- Procurement ACT
“APCC’s Procurement Capability and Workforce Development Strategy team has established itself as both a national and global leader in developing practitioners to meet not only today’s challenges, but those of the future.
The APCC team is raising the procurement and supply chain practitioners’ capabilities and influence, as a stand-alone profession, in improving commercial performance, results, and operational integration well beyond the traditional, technical procurement skills.
As the evolving global economy – and Australasia’s role in it – requires new approaches to establishing supply chain resilience, harnessing crucial technology, and managing evolving risks, such as ESG, APCC’s Procurement Capability and Workforce Development Strategy team is establishing and delivering the optimal solutions.”
- Jim Bergman, CEO, Commercial Officers Group, USA
“As Finance is the functional lead for procurement across the WA public sector, the APCC Capability and Workforce Strategy (Strategy) provides us with a guiding light of best practice procurement capability building.
Our stakeholders look to us for leadership regarding procurement and given the challenges we face in meeting the expectations placed on procurement in the current environment, particularly in terms of delivery of social outcomes, the Strategy could not have been more timely. The bringing together of the various resources within the Strategy, and the principles and thinking underpinning it, has helped coalesce our own set of priorities and helped us articulate of the need and value of investing in procurement capability and capacity. Out stakeholders have a much better appreciation of what we are trying to achieve and why, and understand the priority initiatives.
It worth noting, that the Strategy has reinforced the value of networked jurisdictions working together with and through the APCC, and helped us leverage the expertise of other teams across Australasia as well as share our own. The leadership of the APCC, as demonstrated by the Strategy, has been invaluable. ”
- Kate Ingham, Deputy Director General, Department of Finance, WA
