Implementing Values-Based Purchasing

This stage outlines key considerations for food data collection and management and discusses practical applications.

This stage helps institutions identify and articulate their values for food purchasing.

Food purchasing guidelines govern and inform an institution's food procurement. Successful implementation of values-based food procurement requires deliberate and intentional creation of food purchasing guidelines.

This stage guides institutions through strategies for seeking public and private funding, building a team, and evaluating facilities and equipment for values-based purchasing programs.

This stage guides institutions through the key activities necessary to promote their commitment to values-based purchasing.

This stage outlines several factors that may constrain how an institution or its food service management company purchases food.

This stage helps private institutions begin selecting a food service management company by providing sample RFP language designed to advance their values-based procurement goals.

This stage guides an institution in incorporating values-based procurement requirements into its food service contract with a food management company.

This stage helps public institutions begin selecting a food service management company by providing sample RFP language designed to advance their values-based procurement goals.

This stage guides a public institution in incorporating values-based procurement requirements into its food service contract with a food management company.

This page includes information on the process of approving and certifying values-based vendors as eligible to sell to your institution.

After determining who will manage food operations and defining vendor eligibility requirements, the next step is to establish purchasing agreements with vendors. Purchasing commitments, when formed strategically, can drastically increase an institution's values-based purchasing.

After determining who will manage food operations and defining vendor eligibility requirements, the next step is to establish purchasing agreements with vendors. Purchasing commitments, when formed strategically, can drastically increase a public institution's values-based purchasing.

Orienting diverse stakeholders to values-based purchasing can require tailored materials.

This stage guides institutions in the creation and implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for developing and maintaining relationships with management companies and values-based vendors.

This stage helps institutions understand the importance of telling stories about their values-based procurement program and see examples of what content to share and how to share it.

This stage helps institutions understand the importance of evaluating their values-based procurement programs.