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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Germany adopts new Supply Chain Law

The German parliament adopted a new law on human rights in supply chains on 11 June, 2021. The law will require companies to regularly and systematically identify and address human rights and environm...

Results of first reporting exercise on Strategic Procurement from the European Commission

On 20 May 2021, the European Commission (EC) published a report on the Implementation and Best Practices of National Procurement Policies in the EU Internal Market. The report reflects the contributio...

European Commission publishes new report “Incentives to boost the circular economy - A guide for public authorities

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability has contributed to a new report, published by the European Commission, identifying which incentives public authorities have at their disposal to boos...

EESC calls for calls for mandatory circular public procurement across Europe

In a newly adopted report, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) calls for mandatory circular public procurement across Europe to break governments' unsustainable consumption patterns. Suc...

Don’t miss your chance to fund your next innovative and sustainable procurement project

With less than a month left before applications close, don’t miss your chance to win €10,000 and become recognised as a leader of sustainable urban transformation with the 2021 Transformati...

Sustainable Public Procurement of Food: A goal within reach

The EU Food Policy Coalition, of which ICLEI - Local Goverments for Sustainability is a member, has published a paper about the gains of implementing sustanable food procurement in a comprehensive for...

Portugal’s National Strategy for Green Public Procurement makes progress

Portugal’s most recent National strategy for GPP (ENCPE 2020) provides an important reference point that demonstrates the importance of Green Public Procurement (GPP) for the sustainability obje...

Procura+ Awards 2021: These are the shortlisted candidates

The shortlisted candidates for the Procura+ Awards have been selected in all four categories: Sustainable Procurement of the Year, Innovation Procurement of the year with the subcategory Outstanding I...

GLA Group features 12 case studies on responsible procurement

Procura+ Participant GLA (Greater London Authority) Group has recently published 12 case studies on responsible procurement. They address good practice examples of public procurement within the London...

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