Government construction procurement survey

The Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF) has come together with the Australasian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC) – the peak body for government procurement and construction policy and practice in Australia and New Zealand – to conduct a collaborative, industry-led examination of productivity barriers in government construction procurement.

The centrepiece of this research is a comprehensive survey that seeks practical, evidence-based insights into how current procurement and contracting practices affect productivity across the construction sector. It canvasses a broad range of procurement-related issues. This encompasses the entire procurement cycle and examines the influence of current practices on workforce composition, wellbeing and sustainability, cross jurisdictional operation by businesses, risk allocation and contract certainty, as well as other long-term industry sustainability, capability and capacity factors.

Most of these issues are long-standing and well known within the industry. Recent government reports, often informed by productivity commission investigations, or tripartite forums of government, large industry participants and unions, have quite rightly highlighted many of them as opportunities for improvement through enhanced collaboration between government and industry.

What has been largely missing from the conversation, however, is the voice of the small and medium sized businesses that represent the overwhelming majority of people engaged in the construction industry.

The ACIF/APCC collaboration provides a direct channel for those businesses to share their experience with government and help shape practical, nationally consistent reform.

The deadline for the survey is Friday 3 July.

Take the survey today!

If you have questions, require further information or would like to make additional comment, contact the project team at survey@apcc.gov.au.