“Insulpak has enjoyed many years of working with ICN and its collaborative partners to better understand commercial air-conditioning projects and government requirement for Victorian projects and tenders.

Being able to access the ICN Industry Advisers for support is something that is valued by Insulpak estimators and all our local subcontractors and suppliers.”

“The Barwon & Great South Coast Showcase webinar has been another successful event by ICN, which helps connect businesses like John Holland to regional and local companies who have shown interest in our projects. It is important to us to engage local businesses and social enterprises on our projects, especially in a time where we need to see small and medium enterprises supported throughout the current pandemic”

“Offering someone a job and being able to witness the positive changes it makes in their lives, is an extremely powerful experience… It’s the flow-on affect a job creates for individuals.

It provides a sense of purpose and self-worth and a reason for someone to get out of bed every morning.

ICN Victoria’s Social Procurement Program provides support and guidance on making these opportunities happen.”

“Winning work on projects such as Chisholm Road, available through ICN Gateway, has allowed Wamarra to employ more people and has provided a training ground for our people to gain new skills in a range of construction areas.”

One of the problems we have as an SME is how do we project ourselves out into the marketplace. We think we’ve got some good expertise in certain areas, and how do we get people to understand our capabilities and what our business is.

The networking part of it (industry events) is quite important to us and the ICN, over the journey since 1984 – what’s that 36 years – the ICN has always been a completely valuable part of our network and getting our name out there.

“ICN has supported John Holland by connecting us with local suppliers, and in particular suppliers that can help us deliver the social procurement targets on the Chisholm Road Prison Project. The Industry Briefing that ICN ran for us was a fantastic forum for the project team to engage with interested local suppliers.”

“Through ICN, we’ve won work on the Metro trains project, the Cross Yarra Partnership and the GovHub. We were also introduced to Downer Group by ICN. We now have a 5-year contract working on a metropolitan roads asset maintenance program in Melbourne.”