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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9 February 2022

Green Public Procurement can accelerate the Net-Zero Economy

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have developed a framework for green public procurement that should help governments reach their net-zero targets faster. The frame...

31 January 2022

Oslo sets standard climate and environmental requirements for suppliers' transports

The City of Oslo has set a number of climate and environmental requirements relating to how the products and services it procures are transported. With these requirements the municiplaity is aimi...

31 January 2022

Applications for the 2022 Procura+ Awards open now

What do the Province of Zeeland, the cities of Odense and Copenhagen, Santiago de Compostela City Council and the Murcia Health Service all have in common? If you guessed that they all won a Procura+ ...

25 January 2022

Power of the Public Plate issues recommendations for procurers and policy makers

How can public procurement positively influence the entire food value chain? ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the UN One Planet Network have developed a set of recommendations fo...

19 January 2022

18 European buyers collaborate on ethical Procurement of ICT

Over the course of 2021, representatives from 18 public authorities came together as the International Working Group on Ethics in Public Procurement of ICT. Initiated by the Federal Institute of Susta...

13 January 2022

New video introduces H2020 project Bus-GoCircular

The new Horizon2020 project Bus-GoCircular has produced a teaser video providing an overview of the project. Bus-GoCircular started in September 2021 and will have a duration of 30 months. In that tim...

22 December 2021

Stratkit develops recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement

The StratKIT project has developed eight recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement for national and EU policy makers as part of the Procura+ City Interest Group on School Food...

21 December 2021

Greece puts GPP plans into concrete action

Even though a systematic monitoring system for ‘green’ tenders is not yet available in Greece, Greek public procurers increasingly make use of green principles to cover their needs. In an ...

17 December 2021

ProcuRE Tender offers €7.68 million R&D funding to change renovations

The Horizon-project procuRE has released the R&D services tender (TED) calling for the development of breakthrough solutions to renovate existing buildings to be supplied with 100% renewable suppl...

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