Procurement templates and resources

Last updated: 24 February 2025
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These templates and resources provide practical guidance for council officers seeking to procure circular products and materials for:

  • infrastructure
  • landscaping
  • parks and gardens.

Though developed for councils, these circular procurement resources can be used by any organisation.

Buy Recycled Procurement Toolkit and templates

The toolkit and templates are designed to be flexible for different types of procurement activities.

Copy and paste applicable sections into:

  • procurement planning documents
  • tenders RFx response schedules
  • evaluation matrixes and more.

Buy Recycled Procurement Toolkit

The toolkit guides you through the procurement cycle. It helps you embed recycled product considerations and requirements throughout each stage and into existing procurement documentation.

Buy Recycled Procurement Toolkit (pdf, 971.9 kB)

Buy Recycled Templates

We developed these templates in collaboration with Procurement Australia and the Buy Recycled Champions.

Document Buy Recycled Evaluation Scoring Template (xlsx, 248.4 kB) Contractor KPIs Template (docx, 72.2 kB) Staff KPIs Template (docx, 72.7 kB) Tender Response Question options Template (docx, 80.6 kB) Data Collection Spreadsheet examples (xlsx, 23.3 kB)

Recycled First Resources for Projects under $50 million

We, in collaboration with ecologiQ, have made these resources available to councils to use only as a reference document for council road projects. They were first developed by ecologiQ for state government audiences. 

For council support on how to use this resource or any other related queries, email our Buy Circular team: sustainableprocurement@sustainability.vic.gov.au 

Recycled First Plan for Projects Under $50M (docx, 3.0 MB) Contractor User Guide: Recycled First Forecast and Reporting Table for Projects Under $50M (pdf, 903.2 kB) Recycled First Forecast Reporting Table for Projects Under $50M (xlsx, 52.5 kB)