What is Indigenous Procurement?
Indigenous procurement is an act of purchasing goods and services from the Indigenous
businesses in Canada. To support aboriginal businesses, the Government of Canada starts
several Indigenous procurement programs.
That supports indigenous economic development by providing contracting opportunities for
businesses owned by First Nations, Metis, and Inuits communities.
Procurement services in Canada by the different private bodies help indigenous businesses to
grab procurement opportunities. For example, ITFC is an economic inclusion network for the
economic development of the Indigenous people of Canada.
The size of the Indigenous market is 31.6 billion dollars as the study did by TD.
In 2017, Around 19000 indigenous-owned businesses in pan Canada. In that, approximately
17000 and 2000 were owned by First Nations and Inuits respectively.
These businesses combinedly generated 10 billion dollars in total revenue and $0.4 billion in
profits.
The federal government of Canada is constantly promoting the indigenous communities
economically. Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business (PSAB) has assisted
indigenous businesses to pursue federal procurement opportunities since 1966.