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22 October 2015

Energy Performance Contracting helps cities to replace inefficient street lights

An innovative method of financing the upgrade of street lights is being promoted to local governments by a new EU-funded project. Street lighting can account for up to 50 percent of a municipality’s...

21 October 2015

InnProBio website launched to help promote innovative bio-based products

As of today, InnProBio, the Forum for Bio-Based Innovation in Public Procurement, can be found on the world-wide web at www.innprobio.eu. With the public sector controlling around one fifth of Europea...

20 October 2015

Public authorities invited to help shape green electricity criteria

The EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for electricity are currently under review. The first stage of this process is a survey of public authorities, due to be carried out in October 2015. The...

16 October 2015

Washington sees the positive impact of embracing green procurement

A survey of state governments in the USA has shown that states across the country are embracing green public procurement (GPP), with Washington emerging as a leader in the field. The north-western sta...

13 October 2015

New report looks at Flemish government's support for innovative and sustainable procurement

The Flemish government has enacted a number of policies to increase the uptake of procurement of innovation according to a new report produced by Foundation Innovation & Work, taking advantage of the ...

Comments invited on EU cleaning services criteria

The EU is inviting public feedback on the development of the criterion for a new EU Ecolabel for cleaning services, as well as the revision of the existing EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria f...

French public procurement award recognises exemplary purchasing policies

The French Government is inviting applications for a public procurement award that recognises the best initiatives in the field of public procurement in France. Now in its eighth year, the award is se...

UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to increase sustainable procurement globally

The United Nations general assembly in New York (USA) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on 25 September 2015, a historic moment that brought into effect a range of global targets that ai...

30 September 2015

World Bank overhauls its procurement processes

More than 5,000 people were consulted over three years to help finalise the World Bank’s new procurement strategy, a gargantuan task considering that the organisation has a budget of over $44 billio...

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