HSV Purchasing Policies training

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

Complying with the HSV PPs - information sessions

To support mandated health services to comply with the HSV PPs, we are offering a number of information sessions between August and November 2025.

The sessions are designed for health service employees in engineering, pharmaceutical and information technology and procurement teams.

Whether you're directly managing procurement or occasionally involved in purchasing decisions, it's important to understand the HSV Purchasing Policies and the legal obligation health services have to comply with them.

Complying with the HSV PPs session overview

The sessions cover:

  • HSV’s function and purpose
  • the HSV PPs
  • HSV Collective Agreements
  • health service compliance obligations under the Health Services Act 1988 (Vic) and HSV PPs.

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HSV Purchasing Policies online course

The HSV PPs short online 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.

HSV Purchasing Policies online course overview

Training modules cover the five HSV PPs, including:

  • 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

How to access the HSV Purchasing Policies online course

Access the course 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 do not 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.

 

 

 

Content reviewed: July 2025