Publications
Business Case for Public Sector Procurement Professionalisation
The Business Case outlines the urgent need to elevate public sector procurement to a recognised profession. It argues that professionalisation, through enhanced capacity and capability, is critical to addressing complex governance, risk, compliance, and societal demands amidst global financial and operational challenges. The Business case highlights significant gaps in talent, skills, and digital infrastructure, while emphasising the strategic potential of procurement to deliver economic, environmental, and social value. Drawing on international examples, the report calls for investment in workforce planning, capability frameworks, career pathways, and standardised practices to ensure procurement's effectiveness, resilience, and contribution to broader policy goals in Australia and New Zealand. Key recommendations include treating procurement as a standalone profession with strategic representation, fostering talent retention, and integrating advanced digital and reporting systems.
Insurance Requirements Practice Note
This document guides procurement professionals in adopting balanced insurance requirements that ensure risk coverage without creating barriers for suppliers. It emphasises that insurance should not shift liability unfairly between parties but provide financial protection for specific risks. Tailored insurance requirements are crucial for supporting diverse businesses, including SMEs and Indigenous enterprises, aligning with government inclusion goals. The document advocates dynamic risk assessments to align insurance needs with actual risks throughout contracts. Procurement officers are advised to validate suppliers' insurance compliance through detailed documentation, fostering fair, sustainable, and accessible procurement practices.
Procurement’s Value Proposition - Suite of KPIs and Metrics
Following the release of "Procurement's Value Proposition," Phase Two introduces a comprehensive set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that establish new benchmarks for procurement best practices. These KPIs focus on areas such as resource efficiency, ESG outcomes, ethics and integrity, supplier management, risk mitigation, and innovation. By measuring procurement’s impact, the guide ensures alignment with organisational goals, enhances supply chain resilience, and strengthens public trust, creating long-term value for economies and communities while ensuring efficient use of taxpayer money.
Defining the Procurement Profession - The Framework
The Framework aims to establish a shared understanding of procurement across government, aligned with the APCC’s 2021-2025 Procurement Capability and Workforce Development Strategy. It emphasises strategic alignment, ethical practices, and strong governance, offering adaptability to specific jurisdictions. Covering essential competencies and career growth, the Framework envisions procurement as a key enabler of innovation, sustainability, and public value, promoting excellence across sectors.
"Reducing Costs for Suppliers" is the fourth white paper in the Construction and Asset Management Special Interest Group’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review. It focuses on key strategies for minimising procurement costs for both suppliers and governments. These include the simplification, standardisation, and streamlining of procurement processes to reduce administrative burdens. The implementation of digital platforms also plays a critical role, centralising information and reducing repeated tasks for suppliers. Additionally, collaborative procurement strategies foster partnerships between government agencies and suppliers to leverage shared resources, ultimately enhancing efficiency and driving down costs
Procurement’s Value Proposition
Unlock the Strategic Potential of Procurement: "Procurement’s Value Proposition" explores how government procurement is not just about acquiring goods and services but is a critical driver of economic growth, innovation, and sustainability. This Framework reveals how strategic procurement optimises resource allocation, fosters social equity, and champions environmental stewardship while ensuring ethical governance. By emphasising procurement's role in enhancing public trust through transparent and impactful spending, this Framework speaks to the essential contribution procurement makes to public administration. Stay tuned for Phase Two, where we will introduce a comprehensive set of KPIs and Metrics to further enrich the insights offered and a tool to deliver on procurements value proposition.
Effective Ways to Pitch Procurement and Contracting Roles
This document provides guidance for government agencies on attracting top talent for procurement and contracting positions. It underscores the importance of understanding candidates' expectations, such as flexible work options, opportunities for career growth, and the desire for meaningful work. The document advises creating job advertisements that highlight the unique advantages of government roles, including the potential for impactful work, a commitment to ethical practices, and access to professional development. It recommends using clear, targeted language, leveraging case studies, and optimising recruitment channels to effectively reach potential candidates. Additionally, it emphasises the importance of removing barriers in job postings and utilising diverse platforms to expand the candidate pool.
Provides an overview of ABABs objectives and agenda for Digital Twins and their relationship to BIM, Digital Engineering, Smart Cities, and Intelligent Infrastructure. The paper offers frameworks for evaluating and considerations for government and industry planning, procuring or using Digital Twins.
Value Proposition for a Career in Procurement Flyer
Our visually compelling Flyer highlights the vast opportunities and benefits in the procurement field. Whether you're starting out or aiming for leadership, procurement offers diverse roles, career growth, and the chance to shape the future while making a meaningful impact. Discover a stable, innovative career that empowers you to contribute to global industries and societal progress.
APCC Benefits & Highlights Summary 2023
The APCC Annual Benefits and Highlights Annual Summary provides members with a snapshot of achievements and activities of the APCC Directorate, and the outcomes and outputs from the efforts and resources provided by our members.
Australasian BIM Benefits Reporting - Guide to Information Collection
The Australasian BIM Benefits Reporting (ABBR), Guide to Information Collection addresses the need for standardised and comparable data on the benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM).
This guide offers a structured system for data collection, enabling comprehensive analysis and understanding of BIM benefits, thereby responding effectively to government and industry's need for organised and reliable benefits data.
Assessing Construction Market Health and Capabilities
Assessing Construction Market Health and Capabilities is the third white paper of the Construction and Asset Management Special Interest Group’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review. Achieving an understanding of market health and capacity can be valuable for effective and efficient procurement processes. Conducting market health and capacity assessments can enable evidence-based decision-making, help to identify opportunities and limitations of the market, and provide information to shape procurement strategies.
This release underscores ABAB's commitment to driving consistency, fostering competition, and promoting best practices in the BIM services sector. The guide is a testament to the collaborative spirit of Australasia's building sector, poised to improve the future of BIM and DE services procurement.
Pathway to Green Construction Procurement
The Pathway sets out the documentation and decision-making processes required by government officials to realise green construction of government infrastructure assets. It includes the full range of environmental sustainability impact factors – energy choice, water management, biodiversity conservation and regeneration, circular economy and waste management, and decarbonisation.
Green construction will improve the sustainability and resilience of government infrastructure and built environment resources. It also assists government officials, both financial and procurement, in assessing environmental targets in their day-to-day decisions and operational responsibilities.
Performance Measurement and Evaluation
The second white paper in CAMSIG’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review series focuses on Performance Measurement and Evaluation. Building upon the success of the first paper, this document harnesses the shared knowledge and expertise of our members.
By establishing clear performance metrics and evaluation frameworks, governments can better monitor project developments, evaluate results, and pinpoint areas for enhancement. A robust evaluation framework not only bolsters transparency and accountability but also promotes best practices.
This paper delves into the key enablers and methods that members of the Australasian Procurement and Construction Council employ for performance measurement and evaluation of government construction and infrastructure projects.
New Starter Program Guide - Procurement
In collaboration with member agencies, industry, and professional colleagues throughout Australia and New Zealand, APCC developed a best practice guide on approaches to secure and develop entry-level procurement and contract management talent pipelines.
National Capital Works (NCW4)
General Conditions of Contract
National standard contract for the construction of buildings, roadworks and bridgeworks
APCC and Austroads developed the new General Conditions of Contract to improve the efficiency of project delivery and reduce the potential for contractual disputes by driving greater consistency in the contractual conditions and clauses used by members.
It is important to note that NCW4 is primarily for public sector use and ‘Construct Only’ contracts with special conditions to be considered at the jurisdictional level.
Edition 1.1 - August 2019
APCC Benefits & Highlights Summary 2024
The APCC Annual Benefits and Highlights Annual Summary provides members with a snapshot of achievements and activities of the APCC Directorate, and the outcomes and outputs from the efforts and resources provided by our members.
Artificial Intelligence in Government Procurement Whitepaper
This Whitepaper offers vital insights into AI’s transformative potential in public procurement. The Whitepaper explores how AI can enhance efficiency, transparency, and decision-making while addressing the ethical, privacy, and accountability challenges of AI integration. Designed to guide procurement leaders, it outlines strategies for responsible AI adoption and highlights key shifts in workforce capabilities. Regularly updated, this resource is essential for navigating the evolving landscape of AI in procurement.
ABAB Digital Roadmap Generator
The development of this online tool automates and streamlines the digital facility and asset management planning process and enables its users to generate a step-by-step implementation roadmap customised to their needs and resources. The benefits of contributing to this exciting initiative are outlined.
Streamlining and Simplifying Project Procurement
Streamlining and Simplifying Project Procurement is the fourth white paper of the Construction and Asset Management Special Interest Group’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review.
Streamlining and simplifying project procurement facilitates cost and time savings for government and contractors working for government.
The process reduces the administrative burden of projects and drives greater consistency across contracts and projects, leading to enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in asset delivery.
APCC Benefits & Highlights Summary 2022
The APCC Annual Benefits and Highlights Annual Summary provides members with a snapshot of achievements and activities of the APCC Directorate, and the outcomes and outputs from the efforts and resources provided by our members.
Rewarding Good Performance is the first white paper in a series from APCC’s Construction and Asset Management Special Interest Group. As a product of CAMSIG’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review, the paper builds upon the wealth of experience and knowledge of council members, to provide insights into contemporary practices used by government. The paper identifies key enablers and methods that members utilise to reward good performance of contractors involved in construction procurement.
Procurement Capability & Workforce Development Strategy 2021-2025
The Australasian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC), representing the Australian and New Zealand government jurisdictions has developed a five-year collaborative Procurement Professionalisation Strategy to deliver ‘A professional procurement capability that delivers effective solutions to achieve public outcomes’.
ABAB Position Statement:
Australian BIM and Digital Engineering Education
A mature Digital Delivery workforce for the built environment, supported by a robust connection between industry, government, and academia, will allow Australia to create an internationally advanced workforce and our own tailored solutions.
Adding value through a collaborative approach to leverage public sector procurement initiatives across Australasia is the keystone of the APCC's work.
Future Procurement Skill Requirements - a more strategic approach
This report (August 2018) examines how procurement is changing, how this is likely to impact future skills requirements and how governments can use this information to invest in new professionalisation initiatives to better recruit, engage and retain procurement staff for the next five years.
Strategic Asset Management Framework: Public Sector
The overall objective of this Framework is to enable those without a technical background or extensive exposure to asset management concepts to quickly gain a high-level understanding of strategic asset management.
The Plan is underpinned by the mantra 'Governments working together' - APCC's greatest strength. Set over a three-year horizon, it is reviewed annually.
Procurement of
Construction Products - a guide to achieving compliance
This aims to assist anyone involved in the building industry to ensure the building products they select, buy and install meet Australian building standards. The Guide now recognises 34 industry led product accreditation schemes and guidance information across a range of building product categories.
APCC Benefits & Highlights Summary 2021
The APCC Annual Benefits and Highlights Annual Summary provides members with a snapshot of achievements and activities of the APCC Directorate, and the outcomes and outputs from the efforts and resources provided by our members.
Building and Construction Procurement Guide: PTI and BIM
This is another resource in a series of nationally important BIM initiatives to accelerate the adoption of project team integration (PTI) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). This Guide is a companion to the Austroads and APCC Building and Construction Procurement Guide – Principles and Options
BIM Knowledge and Skills Framework
A mature Digital Delivery workforce for the built environment, supported by a robust connection between industry, government, and academia, will allow Australia to create an internationally advanced workforce and our own tailored solutions.
AAMCoG Guide to Integrated Strategic Asset Management
The Guide provides a contemporary outline to assist those responsible for delivering and managing built assets to community and service delivery needs.
ABAB - Asset Information
Requirements (AIR)
The AIR Guide focuses on defining deliverables relevant to asset management and facility management (AM/FM) activities, including digital asset data typically found in an asset register, documents, and as-built models. The Guide outlines key concepts and principles applicable to defining
AIRs, and provide information to support decision-making and priority setting during the process. Find out more about ABAB here.
Australia and New Zealand Government Procurement Agreement
The objective of the ANZ Government Procurement Agreement is to create and maintain a single ANZ government procurement market in order to maximise opportunities for competitive ANZ suppliers and reduce costs of doing business for both government and industry.
The focus of this report is on information requirements and contract documentation. It is based on a review and analysis of the contents and scope of existing Building Information Modelling (BIM) Standards defined by participating State Agencies.
The use of rigorous information analysis at the beginning of a construction project has the greatest potential to significantly improve the whole project. This guide sets out a framework of leading practice methods for achieving those improvements.
Building and Construction Procurement Guide: Principles and options
Guidelines released by Austroads and the APCC provide a consistent procurement and contracting approach for road, bridge and non-residential building projects across Australian government.
Guide to Successful Project and Asset Delivery: getting it right up front
This provides a snapshot of the processes involved in planning, designing and constructing capital works assets and includes existing complementary resources produced by ACIF and APCC available to inform those processes. The focus of this Guide is the front end of projects – project initiation, project delivery planning, delivery team procurement, and project delivery.
The Case for Project Team Integration
The Case for Project Team Integration, and The Project Team Integration Workbook contain straightforward ways to improve project team collaboration and performance. They make a strong case for early integration of project team members, to get the best from all disciplines that can contribute to good project outcomes and, where it is used, from Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Australia and New Zealand Government Framework for Sustainable Procurement
(2007) This a set of national and trans-Tasman principles to guide Australian State, Territory and Federal governments and the New Zealand Government in implementing sustainable procurement.
APCC Contract Management Guide for Schools
This guide targets non-contract managers such as principals, executive staff, business managers, and administration staff and provides step-by-step procurement guidance with school-specific examples. It should be used alongside jurisdictional policies and practices. Its goal is to help school staff better understand and manage contract obligations, performance requirements, and deliverables for more successful contract management.
Value Proposition for a Career in Procurement
This flyer serves as a valuable tool for promoting the procurement industry, outlining what procurement is and the top 6 reasons to pursue a career in the field. It also showcases the diverse range of professions within procurement, from sourcing to supply chain management, making it an ideal resource for encouraging others to join the profession. Perfect for existing procurement professionals looking to inspire and attract new talent to the industry.
Building Government Procurement Capabilities Guide 2008
This document is the precursor to our 2018 Future Procurement Skill Requirements report. In 2008 it set the then aspirational targets for capability requirements in the government procurement sector and was supplemented by the Capability Matrix.
National Code of Practice for the Construction Industry
The National Code of Practice for the Construction Industry (the Code) expresses the principles which Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments agree should underpin the future development of the construction industry in Australia.
View the Best Practice Guidelines.
The Framework for the adoption of Project Team Integration and Building Information Modelling
The Framework is designed to guide and assist industry stakeholders in the adoption and implementation of project team integration and Building Information Modelling (BIM).
The release of the Framework signals a ‘whole of industry’ approach to what will be ‘business as usual’ in the very near future.
Professional Indemnity Insurance Guidelines
(2014) APCC's Professional Indemnity Insurance Guidelines in the Building and Construction Industry were prepared to assist Australian government agencies to determine the level of PII to be held by their consultants in the industry.
Statement on the Consistent Use of Terminology
Through the Terminology Working Group, a comprehensive review of documentation from organisations such as Transport for NSW, Queensland Health, and the Victorian Digital Asset Strategy demonstrated a strong alignment with ISO 19650 terminology, which can be applied to all assets. The group concluded that in recent years client organisations such as those involved in ABAB have adopted ISO 19650 terminology in their BIM requirements, effectively addressing the issue of inconsistent terminology.
Risk Allocation of Subsurface Conditions
The Australasian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC) and the Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF) have collaboratively released a Practice Note on 'Risk Allocation of Subsurface Conditions'.
Originating from the ACIF-APCC Strategic Forum, the paper addresses the significant impact of subsurface conditions on construction projects in terms of timelines, costs, and feasibility.
It offers guidance to professionals on risk allocation concerning subsurface conditions, managing potential latent conditions, and contractual treatments. This release showcases APCC's and ACIF's dedication to enhancing best practices in Australasia's construction industry.