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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15 November 2018

A Circular Economy for Plastics

The tides are turning for plastics and with them marine litter and plastic pollution will hopefully vanish. From the first image of a turtle squeezing its shell into a fishing net to recent news of mi...

13 November 2018

Global North-South Knowledge Exchange Event on Sustainable Public Procurement

Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) is growing in importance globally as a tool to achieve sustainable development and take climate action, particularly with the global commitment to SDG 12: Sustaina...

9 November 2018

European parliament adopts regulation banning single use plastics

The EU Parliament approved an EU wide ban of several single-use plastic items by 2021 and adopted strict recycling regulation over other plastics such as beverage bottles, food containers at rates of ...

6 November 2018

Suwon – recycled asphalt unlocks major benefits of GPP

Green Public Procurement enabled recycling of 33,617 tons of asphalt concrete in total and created environmental and economic benefits worth more than 800 million KRW in Suwon, South Korea.

2 November 2018

Launch of TCO Certified, generation 8

How far away is a future where all IT products have a circular and sustainable life cycle?

30 October 2018

The Circular Revolution – Remanufacturing, Repair and Reuse

In the 20th century, we dug up, chopped down, drilled for or harvested 34 times more construction materials, 27 times more ore and minerals, 12 times more fossil fuels and 3.6 times more biomass than ...

25 October 2018

Make ICT Fair: Live Market Engagement connects buyers and suppliers for fair ICT

Universities, hospitals, cities, and other public bodies in the European Union (EU) together procured electronic devices such as desktop or laptop computers, servers or smart phones for about €50...

23 October 2018

Advancing Bioeconomy – the new strategic pathway for the EU

This month, the EU Commission put forward a new bioeconomy strategy including 14 specific steps towards implementation. The underlying aim of the strategy is to help address global challenges such as ...

18 October 2018

Trailblazer Ghent – procuring traffic management as a service

Being stuck in traffic or experiencing delays is very common. In Belgium, for instance, the average driver typically spends up to 39 hours in congested traffic. Clearly there is a huge need for traffi...

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