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17 December 2019

Flemish buyers go for fair and circular ICT!

On 9 December, the ‘Conference on Fair & Circular ICT’ was hosted by the Procura+ Participant City of Ghent, organised by Fair ICT Flanders in collaboration with the project Make ICT F...

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13 December 2019

Toolkit on human rights for policy makers and public buyers released

The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a new Toolkit “Driving change through public procurement: A toolkit on human rights for policy makers and public buyers (road-testing version)...

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10 December 2019

Pre-Commercial Procurement helps Norwegian Ferries Run Emission-free

In 2017, Sør-Trøndelag County Council in Norway decided to take action to lower the emissions of the public ferry services, in support of achieving the County’s climate goals. Six ...

Deep dive

5 December 2019

Our demand for electric cars and smartphones is drying up the most arid place in the world

The recent investigation ‘Devices draining the desert’ by Danwatch found that lithium extraction for the batteries in our computers, telephones and electric cars is using many of the scarc...

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3 December 2019

Breaking Ground – Big Buyers Procurement Training leverages public purchasing for clean construction and EVs

European cities are ready to take their public procurement to the next level. At an event in Oslo this week, frontrunner cities got together to make their procurement power count in the fields of circ...

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2 December 2019

Procurement to localise the SDGs – New ICLEI guidance for towns and cities with 15 pathways

ICLEI, alongside the City of Aalborg and the Basque Country, recently launched a new publication, which presents towns and cities with 15 pathways they can use to localise the Sustainable Development ...

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26 November 2019

The latest on life-cycle costing for procurement

On behalf of the European Commission, ICLEI Europe and Ecoinstitut will host a webinar focussed on the 5 product-specific life cycle costing (LCC) tools that the European Commission has produced to fa...

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25 November 2019

China, ICLEI, the Netherlands and UN Environment Programme join hands to lead the globe towards sustainable procurement

The UN-led initiative “One Planet Network” has a new leadership for its Sustainable Procurement Programme. Four organisations are going to jointly manage the programme to accelerate the up...

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22 November 2019

New GPP Criteria - Public Space Maintenance

The EU GPP criteria for public space maintenance have been finalised.

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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

Search results ( 415 - 423 from 1242 )

Flemish buyers go for fair and circular ICT!

Toolkit on human rights for policy makers and public buyers released

Pre-Commercial Procurement helps Norwegian Ferries Run Emission-free

Our demand for electric cars and smartphones is drying up the most arid place in the world

Breaking Ground – Big Buyers Procurement Training leverages public purchasing for clean construction and EVs

Procurement to localise the SDGs – New ICLEI guidance for towns and cities with 15 pathways

The latest on life-cycle costing for procurement

China, ICLEI, the Netherlands and UN Environment Programme join hands to lead the globe towards sustainable procurement

New GPP Criteria - Public Space Maintenance