Procurement guidance
Note: These documents will be progressively reviewed as part of Buy Queensland 2023 implementation.
Before engaging in a procurement activity, please ensure you have reviewed the key Queensland Government procurement policies, frameworks and other resources.
Overarching guidance documents
- Small and medium enterprise procurement target
- Accessibility compliance in procurement – ensuring accessibility for people with a disability
- Putting Queenslanders first when securing value for money
- Local benefits test
- Optimising opportunities for local suppliers
- Probity and integrity in procurement
- Best practice principles: Quality, safe workplaces
- Ethical Supplier Mandate and Ethical Supplier Threshold
- Supplier Code of Conduct 2023
- Eliminating modern slavery in government supply chains
- For Buyers: Supporting local food and beverages
- Social procurement resources
- Ending Domestic and Family Violence: Guidance for Government Buyers
- Acknowledging government investment in public works and other procurement
- Intragovernmental procurement advisory note
- Procurement related policies: guideline
- Queensland Indigenous Procurement Policy
Planning
- Agency procurement planning
- Confidentiality provisions
- Developing specifications
- Determining insurance requirements in procurement
- Early market engagement in procurement - quick reference guide
- Engaging and managing consultants and indirect workers
- Integrate sustainability into procurement
- Outcomes-based procurement
- Planning for significant procurement
- Prequalifying suppliers
- Quality assurance handbook
- Supply market analysis
- Using probity auditors and advisors
Sustainable procurement product guides:
- Business machines
- Cleaning services
- Desktops, laptops and monitors (ICT products)
- Office paper
- Print services
Planning templates
Sourcing and evaluating
- Debriefing a supplier
- Inviting offers
- Reverse auctions
- Evaluating offers
- Negotiating offers
- Establishing supply arrangements
Sourcing and evaluating templates
- Sourcing supplier feedback form
- Verbal request for quote checklist
- Sourcing closure report
- Sourcing communication log
- Sourcing negotiation plan
- Sourcing specification
- Sourcing strategy
- Due diligence and referee checklist
- Evaluation plan
- Evaluation and recommendation report
- Award letter
- Unsuccessful letter
Managing
- Contract management resources
- Managing and monitoring supplier performance
- Complaints management
- Contract disclosure guidelines
- Contract disclosure user manual
- Contract disclosure template (XLSX, 27KB)
Contact
If you have questions about our procurement guides, email betterprocurement@epw.qld.gov.au.