GHD and Indigenous defence and infrastructure consortium form strategic relationship
To mark the end of Indigenous Business Month, global professional services company, GHD entered a five-year Strategic Relationship Agreement with the Indigenous Defence & Infrastructure Consortium (iDiC), to strengthen GHD’s commitment to meaningfully include Indigenous owned businesses in their supply chain.
The Indigenous Defence & Infrastructure Consortium (iDiC), led by CEO Adam Goodes, is a single point deployment project and account manager, providing a diverse range of services via its consortium partners, all of whom are Indigenous owned businesses.
With a national footprint, iDiC has proven capability in a range of direct and indirect procurement services to support large Defence and infrastructure projects.
The iDiC team keep Indigenous communities and the development of Indigenous entrepreneurs at the forefront, providing real long-term capability building and jobs to Indigenous Australians, including training and education to Indigenous youth via real, practical, hands-on development programs. Beyond the 120+ businesses within the consortium, over 80% of iDiC’s own workforce identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Michele Beattie, GHD’s Australian Finance Manager and Executive Sponsor for Reconciliation and Indigenous Services, is looking forward to working with the team. She said, “Our partnership with iDiC will help strengthen GHD’s commitment to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander supplier diversity and support improved economic and social outcomes, as outlined in our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). I’m looking forward to seeing how iDiC can supplement the work our Indigenous Services team is doing to create a real, lasting impact on the Indigenous business sector.”
iDiC is proud and excited to partner with GHD across their Defence portfolio. Our partnership with GHD will not only help in attracting and sourcing Indigenous business and people to work in the Defence and infrastructure sector, but it will provide long term support and opportunities to the Australian business sector as we build defence ready Indigenous sovereign capability and capacity.”
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