Bee-Clean is a building maintenance company that formed a partnership with Papasay Management Corporation (the economic development arm of the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation) in 2015. Bee-Clean provides employment opportunities for First Nations community members throughout Canada (including in Dream buildings), as well as a recurring revenue stream to Papasay. In response to our Social Procurement Strategy, Bee-Clean utilized the joint venture to bid and win on a major cleaning contract for Dream Office. This in turn has directly contributed to the economic development of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation.

Tracking Social Procurement Hours at 67 Richmond Redevelopment

As a family-owned business, BMK is accustomed to delivering exceptional service, which extends to its partnerships. BMK worked to help Dream unveil an industry-pioneering practice; tracking diversity within the labour hours of construction projects. By circulating voluntary diversity surveys to all on-site staff, subcontractors can now report the total labour and apprenticeship hours worked by their workforces monthly, as well as those worked by members of equity-seeking groups. BMK aggregates this information on its monthly invoices to Dream, fulfilling Dream’s newfound ability to track its employment related KPIs.

Dream’s Social Procurement Strategy aims to foster more supply chain competitiveness in addition to enriching the economic lives of the communities where we operate. As part of this, Dream launched a Training Program for Diverse Contractors with the goal of supporting early-stage contractors from equity-seeking groups that are looking to begin servicing commercial real estate. The Training Program consists of sessions and resources overviewing Dream’s supplier expectations, as well as site visits to solicit quotes to potentially award contracts to participating contractors. If you are a Diverse Contractor and this program may be of interest to you, please reach out to [email protected] for more information.