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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London 2012 achieves world first with dual certification

With just over three months until the London 2012 Olympic Games kick off, the entire Olympic Park development has achieved dual Project Certification from PEFC and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)...

Cape Town develops green procurement guidance

The City of Cape Town (South Africa) recently developed an Information and Guideline document on the Implementation of Green Procurement in the city. The document describes the desired state of practi...

Study notes wide-scale uptake of green public procurement in EU

A recent study produced by the Centre for European Policy Studies and the College of Europe indicates that green public procurement is being practiced on a large scale within the EU. 55 percent of the...

Electric mobility takes off in Estonia and Bulgaria

Estonia launched an Electric Mobility Programme in 2011, which sought to introduce electric cars using funds from the Kyoto protocol system. The Ministry of Social Affairs bought 507 electric cars as ...

SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets survey exposes growth potential

A recent Eurobarometer survey has identified areas of untapped potential for SMEs, revealing that less than a quarter take advantage of the single market for green products or service. Bureaucracy is ...

Municipal Sustainable Procurement gains momentum in Canada

Increasingly, decision-makers in Canada are recognising that sustainable procurement practices add value to their carbon neutral programmes, zero waste goals, efficiency and innovation while positivel...

BUSINESSEUROPE releases views on Commission’s public procurement reform proposal

BUSINESSEUROPE has released its position paper on the European Commission’s public procurement reform proposal, which states that the main goal of the public procurement rules must be to “achieve ...

LANDMARK project holds first train-the-trainer workshop

The first LANDMARK project train-the-trainer workshop took in place in Bonn (Germany) in February 2012. The project is coordinated by ICLEI Europe and aims to enable European local authorities to act ...

Time to progress to Sustainable Public Procurement?

A briefing produced by Client Earth argues that an opportunity is being missed by limiting the remit of strategic procurement to the environmental dimensions of sustainability. Both green public procu...

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