Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

Procura+ Seminar 2025

On 9 & 10 October, the Procura+ community gathered in the Province of Zeeland for a seminar highlighting how public procurement can help public authorities accelerate and scale up social, sustainable, innovative and circular policies

New guidance document on circular procurement in cities

The guide outlines how circular considerations can be embedded into existing public procurement procedures, and lists circular criteria that have been used in tenders

Opportunity: two new EIC Innovation Procurement Programme opportunities

Two major European Innovation Council (EIC) projects, SPIN4EIC and InnoMatch, are offering the last calls for public administrations to strengthen their innovation procurement efforts

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NEWS

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Public procurement aligns with NEB principles to address extreme climate events

The EU-funded AMBIENT project kicked off in June in Madrid aiming to develop a scalable European ecosystem for advanced materials procurement. The recent heatwaves in Europe have brought the effects o...

Big Buyers Working Together learns from Brussels institutions

During the Big Buyers Working Together annual event in March, participants got the opportunity to visit three organisations in Brussels all contributing to sustainability and innovation in different w...

Procura+ Awards 2027 open submissions

Who will follow in the footsteps of 2025's Procura+ Award winners Berliner Verkehsbetriebe, Orleans Metropole and UNDP Uzbekistan? Applications for the 2027 Procura+ Awards are now open, inviting publ...

Roundtable on the future of EU Public Procurement

On 11 May, the European Commission hosted a high-level roundtable discussion on the future of EU public procurement, bringing together representatives from the Commission and around 20 leading public ...

BBWT annual event wraps up on a high note

Public procurement is no longer just about buying goods and services at the lowest price. Public tenders should contribute to Europe’s resilience, innovation, competitiveness and political and e...

ICLEI Europe partners with Barcelona City Council to host 13th Procura+ Conference

Save the date! From 16-19 February 2027 the 13th Procura+ Conference will be held in the City of Barcelona (Spain). Barcelona City Council and ICLEI Europe have collaborated on sustainable and innovat...

Save the date: Big Buyers Working Together surveys changing procurement landscape

The 2026 Big Buyers Working Together annual event will take place in Brussels on 12 May, seeking to highlight how public buyers deliver impact in a changing public procurement landscape.

Involving suppliers early reduces cost of bio-based construction

The research institution Bauhaus Earth researches and promotes the use of circular and bio-based materials in construction. In its work it has experienced that inefficient planning is the main driver ...

Reinforcing due diligence and human rights in public contracts

On 12 and 13 March, the Big Buyers Working Together Communities of Practice on Social Procurement and Sustainable Solar PV gathered in Stockholm for a training on “Human rights due diligence in ...

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