(Tenderer / respondent to complete)
SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
PARTICIPATION PLAN
PROCUREMENT REQUEST DETAILS
INSERT PROCUREMENT REQUEST NAME AND NUMBER

SME Participation Plan

Parties
Principal / Name
Address
Contractor / Name
ABN/ACN
Address
Sub-contractor (including dealers and distributors) / Name
ABN/CAN
Address
Sub-contractor (including dealers and distributors) / Name
ABN/CAN
Address

The Respondent is required to prepare this Small and Medium Enterprise Participation Plan that describes the impacts the proposed contract would have on support for Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Small and Medium Enterprises.

Small and medium enterprises included in the proposed contract

How many ANZ Small and Medium Enterprises (including the contractor and/or sub-contractors and/or dealers, distributors) would gain business through this proposed contract?

Approximately how many full-time equivalent jobs would be established by this proposed contract (including SMEs involved in the supply chain for the delivery of the contractual requirements)?

Approximately how many full-time equivalent jobs would be retained over the life of the proposed contract (including SMEs involved in the supply chain for the delivery of the contractual requirements)?

Skills, training and technology transfer

Set out the planned training and skills development of employees of the Small and Medium Enterprises that this proposed contract would provide. This could include:

o  Listing the training programs

o  Indicating the opportunities for the engagement and training of apprentices

o  Identifying and describing opportunities for increasing skills of employees.

Set out the potential development of technology that this proposed contract would provide (including any technology transfer that occurs as a result of imported technology).

Identification of Small and Medium Enterprises’ capabilities

How has the Respondent identified Small and Medium Enterprises that would participate in the supply chain for this Tender?

Additional evidence of the Respondent’s encouragement of Small and Medium Enterprises

How are opportunities promoted and Small and Medium Enterprises alerted to upcoming tenders and contract requirements?

Statement of Compliance

In submitting this Response that the Responder agrees:

·  to comply with this Participation Plan

·  to be monitored, as the contractor, by the NSW Government for compliance with the commitments in this Participation Plan as part of overall performance management

·  to acknowledge that this Participation Plan may be centrally recorded by the NSW Government.