##### COUNCIL
SUSTAINABLE CHOICE
SCORECARD SUMMARY REPORT
December 2015
OUTLINE
Sustainable Choice provides support and assistance to New South Wales (NSW) councils
to help increase sustainable procurement within the sector and our communities. ####
Council publicly committed to strive towards total sustainable procurement by joining the
Sustainable Choice program in #### and has made a number of achievements to date.
Scorecard results are based on information provided directly by member councils through
the Sustainable Choice 2015 NSW Sustainable Procurement Survey, assessing data input
for the 2014/2015 financial year period. The data collected provides a snapshot of
sustainable procurement at #### Council. It gives an assessment of the core
organisational systems and processes at Council underpinning effective sustainable
procurement.
The Scorecard covers performance in the area of Sustainable Procurement Culture.
The scorecard provides benchmark tracking against which ongoing and future progress can
be measured and is provided for #### Council only and is not distributed to any third party.
It is the intention of this scorecard to provide information, to benchmark success, and
recommendations to improve sustainable procurement culture within Council.
Disclaimer
Local Government NSW accepts no responsibility as to the accuracy of information provided in the
scorecards as a result of inaccurate or incomplete information submitted in the Sustainable Choice
2015 NSW Sustainable Procurement Survey. The Sustainable Choice Team are aware of some
apparent inaccuracies whereby additional sustainable procurement activities are known however,
they were not included in the data submitted via the survey.
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RESULTS
#### Council received a score of 29% for sustainable procurement culture change. ####
Council’s efforts in quadruple bottom line sustainable procurement are considered to be at
an Activated level.
Culture
Education and Training
Tenders
NSW member overall
average 2015
Procedures
Council 2015
Council 2014
Policy
Working Group
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Overall, sustainable procurement at ### Council is variable, with progress in some areas
yet gaps elsewhere. Significant progress has been made in the area of tenders and
education and training.
### Council has reached the average for Sustainable Choice member councils in the area
of education and training. Although progress has been made in some areas of fostering a
sustainable procurement culture, there is still room for improvement in the areas of tenders,
procedures, policy, working group and tracking systems when compared to the average of
other Sustainable Choice member councils.
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Based on the information provided, Sustainable Choice recommends ### Council take the
following action:

Maintain your working group in order to collaborate and explore cross sectional
opportunities for sustainable procurement and savings.

Initiate induction and regular, ongoing staff training in relation to Sustainable
Procurement. This could be done by including sustainable procurement as a module
in standard staff induction training and any existing relevant regular training within
Council.

Further develop and maintain and evaluate policy, procedures, guides and
checklists to help with staff implementation of sustainable procurement across all
business units.

Consider incorporating sustainability and/or sustainable procurement into Key
Performance Indicators within position descriptions across the whole of Council.
Sustainable Choice encourages you to make use of the resources and tools available to
members as outlined online at www.lgnsw.org.au/member-services/sustainable-choice/
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Scoring Methodology
This Scorecard is developed using information provided by Council in October 2015 and
based on data within the 2014/2015 financial year. Some data may have been missed or
omitted when the survey was completed, or Council may have undertaken activities since
October 2015. Consequently the Scorecard may present an incomplete or slightly outdated
picture. Despite this, it provides a useful benchmark. The survey is repeated each year
enabling Council to track progress over time. This is the main intent and benefit. The
Scorecard is not intended as a comparative measure between councils.
The full survey can be found at www.lgnsw.org.au/member-services/sustainable-choice.
This Scorecard is based on Council’s responses to the survey questions.
Scoring is based on a number between 0 – 4 being assigned to each response. For
example: How often is your Procedures Guide used?
 Never (score 0)
 Occasionally (score 1)
 Sometimes (score 2)
 Usually (score 3)
 Always (score 4)
Some questions are cumulative while others have ranked value. A maximum score of 12 is
possible within each category within the culture change data.
The overall “Score” is the sum of the individual council’s responses divided by the total
possible score and expressed as a percentage. A perfect score of 100% would result in
council achieving 12 points for each procurement culture change category. The overall
“Score” is then ranked as follows:
INITIATED (i.e 0-25%), ACTIVATED (i.e 26-50%)
INTERMEDIATE (i.e 51-75%), ADVANCED (i.e 76-100%)
Scores are provided based on data input from sustainable choice members, data is not
compared to a national standard therefore results reflect that within membership only.
Accuracy is also influenced by the quality and precision of data entry by each individual
council. Scoring has been based on both quantiative and qualitative data.
Further Information
Data from the full survey is aggregated across all councils to produce the Sustainable Choice Annual
Data Report each year. These Reports contain background and sector-wide data on sustainable
procurement within the NSW Local Government sector that may be useful in helping to interpret and
contextualise this Scorecard. Annual Data Reports can be found on the Sustainable Choice website
at www.lgnsw.org.au/member-services/sustainable-choice
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