There are many important determining factors when deciding how to procure your goods and services. The first important step in the process should be identifying an authenticated or certified social benefit supplier, or an accredited ethical or environmentally sustainable product or service. For peace of mind and audit control, every supplier on the SOS platform is authenticated.

However, certification is not always enough as all socially or environmentally procured products, services, or businesses, are not created equal. To help mitigate potential risk, the SOS Platform undertakes unique analysis through our due diligence processes to capture evidence, assess, and predetermine impacts and outcomes. Our processes are important when strategically aligning policy or contractual requirements with your social procurement, ESG or priority workforce inclusion deliverables.

Company ownership, inclusion of target priority groups, sourcing, make up and processes used to manufacture materials, locality, waste and emissions and impacts, to name a few, allows your business to make value aligned choices. These social and environmental impact contributors, to name but a few, are critical when assessing and evidencing the footprint your business or project leaves on this planet.

Sustainable social or environmental procurement outcomes cannot be achieved or assessed in isolation. As an industry ‘First’ social procurement process, the SOS Platform supports a whole company or project assessment including monitoring, reporting, auditing and capturing of evidence, to understand and adopt best practices to successfully procure and achieve sustainable outcomes.

The SOS Platform identifies:

• Social Procurement
• Indigenous Inclusion
• Ethical, Environmental and Sustainability
• Local Industry Development
• Training and Employment of Target Priority Groups
• Diversity, Inclusion and Equality
• Modern Slavery

How is your business going to leave a legacy? It’s never too late to start.