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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14 November 2019

European Big Buyers advance procurement of zero emission vehicles

The Big Buyers is a European Commission Initiative (BBI) for promoting collaboration between big public buyers in implementing strategic public procurement. As part of the platform, three working grou...

12 November 2019

MUPASS 2019 - our three take-aways

The MUPASS Dialogue Forum 2019 took place in Bonn, Germany. The three-day Forum enabled a fruitful exchange on the topic of sustainable public procurement (SPP) with many interactive formats for senio...

7 November 2019

Local governments for climate conference calls on procurment to combat climate change

There is great potential for local governments to use public procurement to strengthen their work on climate change and sustainability. Green and socially responsible public procurement are key tools ...

6 November 2019

New Project encourages the transformation to a circular economy

A new project supporting the transition to a circular economy in European cities has been kicked off. CityLoops, an EU-funded project coordinated by ICLEI Europe, puts a strong emphasis on how p...

5 November 2019

Transformative Action: Procurement as tool to achieve Circular Economy

Circular Berlin - an initiative that works on circular economy from a bottom-up approach, found that based on the existing city strategies, the main priorities identified for a CE transformation in Be...

1 November 2019

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE – new article highlights the possibilities for public procurement

To achieve carbon neutrality and fulfil the commitments made under the Paris Agreement, the EU will require investments of about €175-290 billion per annum in the energy, transport, construction,...

29 October 2019

GPP in Malta - ICLEI's training helps with implementation

Green Public Procurement (GPP) offers a range of benefits, including cost savings and environmental improvements, so public organisations naturally want to implement GPP as a standard practice for pro...

24 October 2019

New GPP criteria for food, catering services and vending machines

The European Commission has just published new voluntary EU GPP criteria for food, catering services and vending machines. The use of these criteria has the potential to considerably reduce environmen...

22 October 2019

Smart cities need smarter procurement – OECD Public Procurement Forum

This week is the OECD Public Procurement Week, running under the theme of ‘Unpacking complexity’. Key part of the programme is the high-level Forum on Mainstreaming effective responses to ...

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