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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17 October 2024

GoNaturePositive invites urban actors to help shape the future of sustainable urban development

The EU-funded GoNaturePositive project has launched an open consultation on the nature-positive economy. The project is inviting key urban actors—including cities, local governments, policy-make...

Amsterdam launches sustainable solar subsidies

Amsterdam (the Netherlands) has developed a method for providing subsidies to sustainable solar panels. Based on research from the Dutch Buyers Group, there are three levels of subsidy: A, B and C, wi...

cities can use procurement to create and shape markets

The C40 Cities Knowledge Hub recently published an article highlighting how cities across the world are using public procurement as a tool for driving innovation, economic growth and job creation, in ...

24 September 2024

Two new videos promote SRPP

The European Commission has published two animated videos aimed at the promotion of Socially Responsible Public Procurement. The two videos, produced within the context of the WeBuySocialEU project ar...

13 September 2024

Nordic cities seek sustainable transformation of municipal fleet

Gothenburg (Sweden) will have new electric trucks by Spring 2025; Oslo (Norway) is developing a new fleet management system for the entire municipality; Helsinki (Finland) will not allow anymore combu...

10 September 2024

WeBuySocialEU training applies social economy in practice

The WeBuySocialEU project organises a series of trainings across Europe to encourage contracting authorities to integrate social considerations in their purchasing policies and practice, and to suppor...

Finnish SRPP training supports contractors and social economy actors

Finnish Public authorities and social economy entities (SEE) are invited to take part in a training organised as part of the WeBuySocialEU capacity-building efforts. The training will take place in He...

Dutch guide on PV projects used by European public buyers

In 2023 a Dutch Buyers Group, made possible by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, developed a guide to provide assistance and support to contracting authorities when preparing calls ...

Ireland promotes SRPP

The Irish Government has presented the Buying Social Guide and the 71 Good Practice Cases among the relevant materials that can help promote and support Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP)....

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