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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Enzkreis procures innovative energy efficiency solutions for public buildings

The German district of Enzkreis recently set out to refurbish the roof of a building at the Mühlacker Vocational School, which houses 16 workshops for apprentices in the metal industry. The main obje...

New guidance on procuring sustainable mobility available

The CIVITAS Initiative has released new guidance on public procurement that provides local and regional policymakers and transport practitioners with policy reflections and practical insight from Euro...

29 September 2016

Feedback invited on sustainability consumer information guidelines

Draft guidelines that set out minimal requirements and principles for private and public sector institutions to follow when providing product sustainability information are open for feedback from stak...

27 September 2016

Women have unfair role in Ugandan potato and banana supply chain

If gender issues are not taken into account, efforts to strengthen potato and banana supply chains in Uganda will have the unintended effect of disempowering women, research conducted by the RTB-ENDUR...

22 September 2016

Belgian procurement legislation opens the door for sustainability

Belgian legislators transposed the EU Procurement Directives into national law on 17 June 2016, replacing the 2006 legislation with 193 new Articles. The legislation introduces greater flexibility int...

20 September 2016

GLCN on SP outlines the procurement activities of Cape Town

The South African city of Cape Town has been profiled as part of its membership of the Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Procurement (GLCN on SP). The profile looks at the sustainable procurem...

16 September 2016

ICLEI article on the importance of networks published by UN

The benefits of joining a network for buyers and suppliers is outlined in an article in the UN publication Future Proofing Procurement. The article is written by ICLEI Europe Procurement Officer Carol...

15 September 2016

Budapest’s sustainable procurement activities profiled by GLCN on SP

The sustainable procurement activities of Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Procurement (GLCN on SP) member city Budapest (Hungary) have been profiled on the GLCN on SP website. The profile ex...

13 September 2016

Procura+ Awards deadline extension

There is still time to apply for the European Procura+ Awards, with the deadline extended to 7 October 2016. The Awards highlight sustainable and innovation procurements and tender procedures and give...

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