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City food procurement - innovations and challenges from Ghent and Copenhagen

Schools, hospitals, prisons, retirement homes… there are huge amounts of food purchased by our public administrations. We should thus ask ourselves: which criteria are being applied? Is price t...

Making Socially Responsible Public Procurement Work: 71 good practice cases

The European Commission has published a report collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employm...

New green purchasing criteria for computers, monitors, tablets and smartphones

On 5 March, the European Commission published new guidance for purchases of computers, monitors, tablets and smartphones. The guidance - in the form of EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria &ndas...

Establishing a Centre of Excellence to advance the circular economy

Governments and private sector organisations recognise the opportunity to influence markets to advance Canada’s circular economy by leveraging their immense buying power. To support collective u...

Ready to shine? Apply for the Procura+ Awards 2021

You are a public authority and have recently implemented procurements and/or related initiatives with remarkable innovation elements, or economic, environmental and social impacts? You want your work ...

Join Big Buyers working groups on Climate and Environment

After evaluating an encouraging amount of potential topics of interest for procurement collaboration, the Big Buyers for Climate and Environment (BBCE) Secretariat announced the following four Working...

Co-develop innovative solutions towards carbon-neutrality

In the framework of the European Innovation Council (EIC) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions project, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability has the opportunity to support three regions in their tra...

Procuring creative ‘circular’ spaces to play and learn in the City of Aalborg

As part of the Circular PP project, the City of Aalborg (Denmark) has established a new innovative approach to buying playgrounds, one which is based on the principles of a circular economy, as well a...

City of Tshwane - using procurement to become a liveable, resilient and inclusive city

The city of Tshwane, South Africa, is thriving to become a more liveable, resilient and inclusive city. Procurement is one key tool to achieve this vision. As one of the largest metropolitan municipal...

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