HSV Purchasing Policies training

The HSV Purchasing Policies (HSV PPs) establish a framework that supports best-practice procurement by health services.

The HSV PPs short course aims to educate Victoria's public health services on the requirements stipulated by the HSV PPs, which health services are required to meet under the Health Services Act 1988 (Vic).

Training aims to support health services achieve:

  • greater oversight of government spending
  • a principles-based approach to implementing probity strategy into internal procurement practices
  • simplified processes
  • value for money in procurement.

Training modules

Training modules cover the five HSV PPs, which includes:

  • HSV Purchasing Policy 1 Governance
  • HSV Purchasing Policy 2 Strategic Analysis
  • HSV Purchasing Policy 3 Market Approach
  • HSV Purchasing Policy 4 Contract Management and Asset Disposal
  • HSV Purchasing Policy 5 Collective Purchasing and Supply Chain

Access the training

Training is provided via HSV's eLearning platform, ECHO.

To access ECHO:

if you already have an HSV website account

  1. Log into the HSV website via the 'Log in' option in the main navigation.
  2. From your My Dashboard home page select 'ECHO'.
  3. Once inside ECHO, select ‘My Learning’ from the menu to access courses.

if you don’t have an HSV website account

  1. Select the 'Register' option in the main navigation
  2. Within the registration form, select 'Health Service' as your user type.
  3. Within the registration form, check the box for access to ECHO training.

Read the ECHO user guide for more information on the ECHO eLearning platform.