Based on the results of the needs assessment, in March/April 2021 we will establish the following four working groups on the most popular procurement areas – each group will involve between 5 and 10 public entities (cities, regions, central purchasing bodies, and others) from across Europe.
Each established working group will then jointly define a list of objectives and activities.
Interested to be involved? Send us an e-mail at info@bigbuyers.eu.
Description of the topic:
Waste collection, street cleaning, and maintenance vehicles are used on a daily basis in urban areas and most public authorities are looking at changing their city fleet towards electric in the short term. However, the market is not offering a wide array of electric heavy-duty vehicles and prices remain high with a lower level of performance. Charging infrastructures for those types of vehicles is also a crucial part of their development and implementation.
Potential focus:
● Joint market dialogues with suppliers
● Exchange and collaboration on criteria for procurement of large heavy-duty vehicles for waste collection and for street cleaning and maintenance
● Development of charging infrastructure for said vehicles
● Exploring different business models: purchase vs. lease of vehicles
Description of the topic:
Building and infrastructure construction works conventionally use diesel-fuelled heavy machinery (NRMM). To achieve climate neutrality by reducing carbon emissions - as well as to reap benefits of reduced local air pollution (NOx, SOx, PM), less noise and nuisance - public buyers are demanding emission-free construction machinery on municipal building and infrastructure sites. Though small electric machines are more and more common, large emission-free NRMM like excavators are still scarce. The working group will exchange on pilots and jointly aggregate demand to accelerate the transition to zero-emission construction sites.
Potential focus:
● Shared market intelligence on latest developments
● Joint market engagement activities with construction industry, and aligning ambitions
● Development and piloting of procurement criteria for use of low-/zero-emission construction machinery in public works contracts
● Monitoring and verifying emissions and performance on pilot sites
● Potential joint procurement/statements of demand
Description of the topic:
A big part of sustainable construction of buildings and infrastructure goes through circularity. Circularity in construction encompasses the whole process, from dismantling of existing built components to designing and constructing anew. However, it can be difficult to know how to gather all relevant stakeholders around the same table, and be aware of all the technologies that exist to evaluate resource efficiency and implement circularity.
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Description of the topic:
More efficient procurement of innovative medical devices, digital services and IT systems through the collaboration of public hospitals and purchasing bodies can lower the pressure on health budgets while facilitating better value for money. Healthcare can greatly benefit from digitalisation: data collection and analysis, patient monitoring, patient flow management… The COVID-19 pandemy showed the lack of digital responsiveness in times of crisis (it took months to develop apps, website, QR code, patient tracking etc.). A better digital healthcare can be developed for such situations where the health sector is under pressure and acute monitoring, management, and tracking are needed. In addition, societal and environmental sustainability will play a bigger role in the future as hospitals consume huge amounts of material resources and need to pay more attention to resource efficiency.
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Public organisations from any EU/EEA country are welcome to participate in the working groups.
No, filling the survey will not commit you or your organisation to be involved in the initiative. Only once the areas of collaboration will be established (around February 2021) you can communicate your formal commitment to be involved in one or more working group.
Joint working group activities may include:
However each working group will be defining jointly their own set of actions at the beginning of the collaboration.
Based on the most shared interest among public buyers. In the first phase and through the survey we will collect overall interest to be involved. At the beginning of 2021 we will follow up with bilateral phone calls and interview to see where the main interest of collaboration are.
Each working group will decide the level of ambition, the work plan and the timeline of their activities.
The activities will be facilitated by the secretariat, however the formal input and content development will be done by the participants of each group.
Public organisations from any EU/EFTA country are welcome to participate in the working groups. Countries part of the EEA can participate in the meetings at their own expenses.
No, only entities part of the EU, EEA and EFTA are eligible to be involved.
No, you or your entities will not be required to sign anything.
No, the initiative is funded by the European Commision, DG GROW.
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Get an overview of key outcomes from the previous BBI working groups, an idea of why to get involved in the new initiative and insights into the needs assessment.
Presentation - 08 December 2020
