Our approach to procurement

Our approach to procurement is designed to be flexible and tailored to the needs of health services and achieving best-value procurement outcomes is our priority.

We work with suppliers and Victoria's public health services to provide evidence-based information and support to advance safe, affordable and sustainable healthcare.

Reference groups

We collaborate with health service through reference groups to determine requirements for our product and service tenders.

The Procurement Activity Plan

Our sourcing program is revised biannually with health service input through the Procurement Activity Plan (PAP), providing an overview of our sourcing activities for the coming two years.

Sustainable and social procurement

We are committed to sustainable procurement practices and have developed a Social Procurement Framework to assist health services to increase their positive impact.

Sourcing options

We are procurement specialists and can support or lead health services with cluster sourcing for medical equipment and other products and services. 

Modern slavery risk

We consult on modern slavery risk in health sector supply chains. You can read about the guidance and tools we provide to support organisations mitigate modern slavery risks on the Modern slavery risk in supply chains page.

Compliance monitoring

Through our legislative functions, we support and monitor health service compliance with the HSV Purchasing Policies, provide guidance on modern slavery risk and facilitate probity in procurement.

Content reviewed: January 2024