Every council in Western Australia continues to have a faster way to solve staffing shortages. Wood Recruitment has been awarded a two-year extension to the WALGA Preferred Supplier Directory, which means all 139 Local Governments in the state can continue to engage its recruitment services under a formal, pre-approved contract: no separate procurement process required each time a staffing need comes up.
The listing sits under Preferred Supplier Contract PSP011, Temporary Labour & Recruitment. For a council with an urgent gap to fill, that's the difference between weeks of tender paperwork and a phone call.
What a Preferred Supplier Listing Actually Means
The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) is the peak body representing all 139 Local Governments across the state. Its Preferred Supplier Panels exist for a fairly practical reason: rather than every council independently vetting and onboarding its own suppliers from zero, WALGA does that assessment once, and the approved suppliers are available to all of them.
For a recruitment agency, landing a spot on that panel changes three things. Every WA Local Government can now engage Wood Recruitment on pre-approved contract terms. Councils skip the time and cost of running their own tender process for staffing support. And the relationship starts already vetted; not as a cold pitch a council has to evaluate from scratch, but as a supplier WALGA has already put through its own scrutiny.
Three Decades in the Same Market
Wood Recruitment, through their labour hire and recruitment solutions, has been placing permanent, contract and temporary white-collar professionals in Perth since 1991, across a spread of sectors that includes:
- Administration & Office Support,
- Accounting & Finance,
- Sales & Marketing,
- Human Resources,
- Management,
- and other specialist areas.
Three decades in one market tends to compound in ways that are hard to replicate quickly. Over that stretch, the agency has built out affiliations with national and international recruitment networks. This matters less as a credential and more as a practical fact for a council with a hard-to-fill role: a wider pool of candidates to draw from than a search starting cold could ever reach.
Why It Matters Specifically for Councils
Local Governments deal with the same staffing pressures as any private employer, holding onto strong performers, managing turnover, responding fast when operational needs shift, but they carry the added weight of procurement rules that can slow the response down exactly when speed matters most.
That's the gap this listing closes. The approach on Wood Recruitment's side is built around a few things: a personalised service model, with consultants who understand what staff turnover actually costs an organisation, not just in dollars but in continuity; responsiveness to a council's strategic growth and changing staffing needs, rather than a one-size response; and access to both permanent and temporary labour solutions, depending on what the specific role actually requires.
Getting in Touch
Local Governments looking to engage Wood Recruitment under the PSP011 contract can reach the team directly by emailing daniel@woodrecruitment.com.au, or via their phone number, (08) 9221 8122.
Wood Recruitment is based at 23 Altona Street, West Perth, and along with business of different sizes, the agency services Local Governments across the state under its WALGA preferred supplier status.
By Daniel Stainforth
