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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German guidance document looks at use of social criteria in public procurement

A new guidance document on the integration of social criteria in public procurement from a legal and development perspective has been published by by Angela Schmitz of the German NGO Eine Welt Netz NR...

UNEP publishes indicators to measure sustainable production and consumption progress

To help Member States track their progress in meeting the sustainable production and consumption targets proposed under the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations Environment Programme...

Vancouver joins list of cities committed to 100% renewable energy

The Canadian city of Vancouver has followed such international luminaries as Sydney, Stockholm and Copenhagen in committing to run on 100 percent renewable energy. The city, which is home to 600,000 p...

Procura+ manual on sustainable public procurement available in Portuguese

A Portuguese version of the Procura+ Manual: A Guide to Cost-Effective Sustainable Public Procurement was launched by ICLEI - South America during the third meeting of the Brazilian Municipalities for...

New law supports a more circular economy in France

In an effort to reduce the number of consumers that dispose of electronic products the moment a problem occurs, French law-makers are pushing for a new directive that would require manufacturers to la...

Railway companies launch sustainable procurement initiative

Six companies in the railway industry have come together to found "Railsponsible”, an initiative which aims to achieve a global railway industry in which suppliers adhere to ethical, social, and env...

Global Lead Cities Network on sustainable public procurement launched

Seoul Metropolitan Government and ICLEI have joined forces to establish a Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP). The aim is to create a worldwide network of leading cities...

UK legislation obliges companies to report on slavery

The UK government has taken bold steps to help stamp out slavery, passing legislation that requires companies to report on their actions to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains. The legislati...

New survey to collect feedback on the EU’s Clean Vehicle Directive

The European Commission (DG MOVE) has launched a study to evaluate the ‘Clean Vehicle Directive’ or CVD, a piece of legislation which requires that energy and environmental impacts linked to the o...

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