Local Content Adviser Network

About the Local Content Adviser Network

The Local Content Adviser Network (Network) was established in 2018. Our aim is to drive and support opportunities for regional businesses to supply to the state government.

The Network focuses on supporting regional businesses by connecting across government agencies, industry bodies, and small-to-medium enterprises so our regional businesses can increase participation in supply chains, grow and diversify, and develop additional capability. The Network also works to inform local content policy, practice, and research to help strengthen and diversify local economies across our state.

Benefits of local content

Local content in regional WA is supported through the WA Buy Local policy, which is designed to ensure regional businesses can benefit from the WA Government’s $27 billion annual spending on goods, services and works.

By focusing the state government's purchasing power on suppliers more closely connected to local supply chains, a procurement can secure the supply of a good or service and have additional flow-on effects and benefits.

The Network provides regional suppliers with the following benefits:

• opportunity for growth
• improved capabilities and capacity
• diversification of markets
• increased market share
• increased competitiveness.

Wider economic benefits for those involved with the network include:

• increased employment and skills
• small to medium enterprise development
• supply chain diversification
• innovation
• increased competition and productivity.