Sustainability in Procurement

Fair Work First and Living Wage

The Scottish Public Sector is committed to the delivery of high quality public services, and recognises that this is critically dependent on a workforce which is well-rewarded, well-motivated, well-led, has access to appropriate opportunities for training and development, is diverse and inclusive, and can influence decision making. These factors are also important for workforce recruitment and retention, and thus continuity of service delivery.

Public bodies in Scotland are committed to applying the Fair Work First criteria in their own organisation and in publicly funded supply chains.

Fair Work First is the Scottish Government’s policy for driving good quality and fair work in Scotland. Through this approach, we are asking bidders to describe how they are committed to progressing towards adopting and how they intend to continue embedding the five Fair Work First criteria:

• Appropriate channels for effective voice, such as trade union recognition;
• Investment in workforce development;
• No inappropriate use of zero hours contracts;
• Action to tackle the gender pay gap and create a more diverse and inclusive workplace; and,
• providing fair pay for workers (for example, payment of the real Living Wage).

In order to ensure the highest standards of service quality in this contract we expect suppliers to commit to progressing towards adopting the five Fair Work First criteria in the delivery of this contract as part of a fair and equitable employment and reward package as a route to progressing towards wider fair work practices set out in the Fair Work Framework.

Modern Slavery Commitments

Police Scotland and the SPA aims to tackle modern slavery by ensuring that it is doing all that is possible to verify that its suppliers and supply chain are compliant with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act (2015). We commit to work with fairness and integrity in all aspects of commercial activity and as such has a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking.

For further information please review the Scottish Government human trafficking guidance.