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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23 December 2014

Policy makers yet to embrace cost-benefit analysis approach to decision-making

The use of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to make policy decisions is not being widely implemented, with many decision-makers believing that CBA can lead to a loss of control and influence over policy-...

18 December 2014

German government publishes guide to procuring inkjet and laser printers

A new guide designed to make the public purchasing of sustainable IT hardware easier has been jointly published by the German Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Em...

16 December 2014

UK council scheme reduces waste and saves money

Warp It is a UK reuse scheme established in 2011 that reduces council waste and saves money by providing an online platform for councils to loan or give away unwanted public resources. Public authorit...

11 December 2014

Clean Fleets project launches new resources for public procurers

A series of resources aimed at helping public procurers to comply with the EU’s Clean Vehicles Directive have been released by the Clean Fleets project. The free publications, which include a guide,...

9 December 2014

ICLEI invites applications for Sustainable Economy and Procurement jobs

ICLEI Europe is searching for qualified candidates to fill two officer positions in its ever-growing Sustainable Economy and Procurement (SEP) team. The positions offer successful candidates the chanc...

5 December 2014

New online platform makes Corporate Social Responsibility easier to verify

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Risk Check is an online platform aimed at businesses and entrepreneurs who purchase internationally produced products, export products or produce abroad. The plat...

3 December 2014

European environment ministers call for resource efficiency target and circular economy

European environment ministers have called for the European Commission to explore the introduction of an EU-wide non-binding aspirational resource efficiency target. Speaking in the European Environme...

28 November 2014

China gathers GPP knowledge and know-how at EcoProcura

Beijing (China) was host to 60 participants at the ICLEI-organised event EcoProcura China 2014 – International Symposium on Municipal Green Procurement. The two day event saw an exciting exchange of...

26 November 2014

Mainz wins Local Climate Protection Award

The City of Mainz (Germany) has been presented with the Local Climate Protection Award for its comprehensive climate-friendly procurement policy. The City of Mainz’s commitment to green public procu...

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