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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Nijmegen to use Rapid Circular Contracting to renew street

The 2018 Green Capital of Europe Nijmegen (The Netherlands) wants to catalyse sustainable and circular development through procurement. For the renovation of the street Malderburchtstraat the city wen...

Procurement features heavily among 2018 TA submissions

The application deadline for the 2018 Transformative Action Award recently closed, with this year’s award setting a record for the number of applications received. Among the 40 entries, were a n...

Transition to low carbon economies through public procurement

The World Energy Investment Report 2018, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights public procurement as one strategy to phase out fossil based fuels and materials.

The state as a role model for sustainable consumption

In an article published this week, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter underlines the import...

EcoProcura 2018 to collaborate with FSC

EcoProcura 2018 is proud to announce that it will collaborate with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) on its 2018 conference on sustainable, circular and innovation procurement, which is taking plac...

Palm oil and green public procurement

The latest GPP News Alert discusses the role of sustainable palm oil in green public procurement (GPP) including current guidance and policies on the issue. With tropical forests disappearing at a rat...

12 Candidates in the Running for Procura+ Awards

The scene is set for the 2018 Procura+ Awards, with 12 candidates now through to the next round of selection in the run up to the EcoProcura conference in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where the winners ...

UN High Level Political Forum: Procurement key to achieve SDGs

Sustainable procurement was recognised as key to the achievement of the SDGs at the UN’s annual High Level Political Forum (HLPF), which took place this week, 9 - 18 July 2018, in New York (USA)...

EcoProcura 2018: Keynote Speakers and Market Lounge tables confirmed

The EcoProcura 2018 conference on strategic, sustainable, circular and innovation procurement has confirmed its keynote speakers and over 50 Market Lounge tables. Speakers include representatives of t...

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