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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11 September 2013

Defra publishes guidance on green IT procurement

The UK’s Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) is setting out best practice guidelines for public sector organisations to procure energy efficient datacentre and cloud hosting s...

4 September 2013

France develops new guidelines for procurement of innovation

The French government has issued new guidelines on the procurement of innovation for those working in the French public sector. It highlights the importance of purchasing innovation as a strategy to a...

2 September 2013

New legal timber regulations explained

ClientEarth, an environmental organisation, has published a document entitled ‘Implications of the new EU Timber Regulation for public procurement’. Public authorities spend hundreds of billions o...

Malaysia committed to sustainable procurement through GPP plan

The Malaysian government has demonstrated its support for sustainable procurement by adopting the Government Green Procurement Action Plan on 10 July 2013. The six biggest government ministries in ter...

LED street lighting comes to Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset Council is the first local authority in the UK to convert all their street lighting to LED technology. The switch will save the council over €230,000 per year and cut ca...

Webinar series to provide training on green public procurement

A series of webinars will be held on energy efficient public procurement and the monitoring and evaluation of green public procurement programmes, organised by the Clean Energy Solutions Center in par...

Public consultation on sustainable procurement in Orkney

Orkney Islands Council (UK) held a consultation on its new draft policy on sustainable procurement. Ensuring that the new policy is in line with the guidelines set out in the Scottish Government’s S...

Experience exchange programme seeks hosts organisations

Organisations with experience and expertise in public procurement of innovation (PPI) and pre-commercial procurement (PCP) are invited to act as "host" organisations for the PPI platform's experience ...

Experts invited to shape PCP manual through survey

The project iMobility Support is inviting procurement experts to provide input into a survey on Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) activities in Europe. The results of the survey will be used to develop...

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