Case Study: Yarra Ranges Council achieves same-day, paperless contract signing with Secured Signing

Yarra Ranges Council Speeds-Up Procurement’s Contract Signing with Secured Signing

Yarra Ranges Council, Victoria’s largest metropolitan council, needed to speed up a slow, paper‑heavy procurement signing process that required multiple hardcopies (Conflict of Interest Declarations, Evaluation Reports, Contracts) and often took 1–2 weeks to complete. To solve this, the Council selected Secured Signing’s PKI-based digital signature online solution to improve efficiency, control and visibility while reducing printing and postage.

Secured Signing deployed a web-based, user‑key PKI digital signing service that lets multiple parties sign hundreds of pages online with no extra software, seals documents and provides an automatic audit trail. As a result, signature time for Evaluation Reports and Contracts dropped from 1–2 weeks to a matter of an afternoon, delivering measurable time and cost savings, enabling a move toward a paperless office, and improving security and supplier service.

Yarra Ranges Council

Sophie Beers

Procurement Officer