Your Local Government Specialists

Strengthening Communities

Social procurement and local economies

Four Seasons Waste is committed to adding value to all the communities we work in through maximising our local economic and social contribution.

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Our commitment to strengthening local communitesd and economies includes:

Social procurement can effectively contribute to building stronger communities and meeting social objectives, in particular facilitating employment opportunities to target local communities.

Local Economic Contribution

Four Seasons Waste is committed to buying from local businesses where such purchases may be justified on Value for Money grounds, while remaining compliant with the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and other fair trading legislation requirements.

Wherever practicable, Four Seasons Waste will fully examine the benefits available through purchasing goods, services or works from suppliers/contractors within the applicable region.

Economic Development

Four Seasons Waste will also seek from prospective suppliers/contractors, where applicable, what economic contribution they will make to region. Such examples may include a supplier/contractor who:

• Engages and contracts with local suppliers

• Engages local sub-contractors

• Participates in apprenticeship schemes or employs apprentices when tendering for projects and upon award

• Contributes to the financial, social and environmental wellbeing of the region

• Enables the expansion, growth and servicing of local businesses and contractors

• Uses existing local businesses

Social Enterprises

Four Seasons Waste will identify opportunities to work with social enterprises and other not-for profit businesses in the regions we operate in.

Four Seasons Waste is committed to social procurement, effectively achieving social objectives and facilitating employment opportunities to target communities in our serviced regions via our procurement processes.