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Indigenous Procurement Questionnaire

The questionnaire was open between February 9 and February 26, 2024, and has now closed. Thank you to everyone who responded. We encourage Indigenous businesses or individuals to provide further feedback at Indigenousprocurement@calgary.ca

Program Purpose

As part of The City’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, we are working to reduce barriers and improve the capability for Indigenous-owned businesses to sell their products and services to The City. Currently, we are developing an Indigenous Procurement Program to contribute to the social and economic reconciliation with Indigenous peoples while maintaining The City’s compliance with public procurement law. The Program is being developed by The City’s Supply Management business unit, with support from Indigenous Relations Office division, and will be shaped by input from Indigenous communities.

This is the current priority initiative of the Social Procurement Program. The success of the program will be achieved through education, awareness and relationship-building.

Frequently Asked Questions

Information from the Questionnaire has been analyzed and summarized in to a What We Heard report. Learnings from the report are now being used to create strategies (such as training strategies) to level the playing field for Indigenous businesses to sell to The City of Calgary.

The Indigenous Procurement Working Group consisted of members from the Treaty 7 Nations, Métis Nations, and urban Indigenous communities.

If you are a member of an Indigenous business and are interested in finding out what City purchasing opportunities are available to you at this time, please visit our Process to Sell to The City of Calgary.

Program Approach

Baseline - Analyze - Engage​

  • Understanding where we are today.

Strategize​

  • Building the Indigenous Procurement Strategies.

​Communicate, Inform, Collaborate​

  • Information sharing, awareness and relationship building with potential suppliers.

Action

  • Implement the strategies with internal and external parties.

Next Steps

The input summarized in the What We Heard Report will be used by Supply Management, specifically the Indigenous Procurement team, to inform the development of the Indigenous Procurement program. Supply Management will continue to listen to the voices of the Indigenous business community throughout the program’s growth. Outside of formal engagement activities, we are always happy to receive feedback at Indigenousprocurement@calgary.ca.

The next stage of the program is the Strategies development, which will take place from Q2 2024 - Q1 2025. As decisions are made based on the input that has been provided, more information will be made available and Indigenous businesses will have opportunities to validate the feedback we received.