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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NEWS

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New public procurement rules to come into force in Scotland

Scotland's public procurement rules will be reformed on 18 April 2016, with two significant pieces of legislation coming into effect. The first is the implementation of EU procurement directives from ...

Vatican aims to stamp out forced labour from supply chains

The Vatican is taking steps to rid its supply chains of slave labour and is encouraging others to follow its lead. Pope Francis is strongly behind the campaign with Cardinal George Pell, prefect of th...

Submissions invited for 2016 Welsh National Procurement Awards

The 2016 edition of the Welsh National Procurement Awards, which celebrates achievements in Wales in public procurement and tendering, is now open for submissions. The awards ceremony will take place ...

Budapest and the City of Tshwane join the global sustainable procurement network

The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement has welcomed two new participants: Budapest (Hungary) and the City of Tshwane (South Africa). By signing the GLCN on SP Commitments document, bo...

Hamburg bans environmentally damaging coffee capsules from public buildings

Hamburg (Germany) is making city employees’ morning coffee more sustainable by banning the use of coffee-pods in state run buildings. The city has taken the decision on the basis that the capsules c...

Morocco to boost green energy supply with new solar power plant

Moroccan authorities are tendering for a new 400MW solar power plant as part of the country’s target to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Carbon emissions will be reduced...

German computer system contract results in significant energy savings

It is estimated that a framework contract prepared by the Procurement Agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Germany (BeschA) for thin clients - lightweight computers that do not have a har...

Stockholm, Cologne and Barcelona provide updates on creating the smart city

The latest news from the GrowSmarter project has been published in the form of blog updates issued by the worksite managers of the project’s three lighthouse cities: Stockholm (Sweden), Cologne (Ger...

Book review: Sustainable Public Procurement Under EU Law

Each EU Member State is required to transpose the New EU Directives on public procurement into national law by April 2016. The new legal framework is intended to make public procurement into a strateg...

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