Social Procurement

Social Procurement

Our Social Procurement program uses our buying power to benefit the economy and community. We keep price and quality as our top considerations.

Social Procurement at The City

Social Procurement is when we purchase purposefully to contribute to:

  • social equity
  • economic resilience
  • social and economic reconciliation with Indigenous people and
  • growing a green economy.

Through our award-winning program, we support local businesses by:

  • Including a Social Procurement Questionnaire on all our competitive procurements. The questionnaire gives a competitive advantage to small and medium-sized businesses. 
  • Getting at least one quote from a local supplier for under-threshold purchases under $75,000 for goods and services and under $200,000 for construction. We obtain three quotes as part of the under-threshold process.

Learn more about how we're supporting local businesses.

We have integrated Social Procurement into our regular procurement practices through the following tools:

Learn more

Learn how The City practices Social Procurement.

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If you have any questions about Social Procurement, please email socialprocurement@calgary.ca.

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