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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Overcoming water challenges through innovative procurement

Launched at the start of 2014, the Water PiPP (Public Innovation Procurement Policies) project aims to improve public procurement of innovation (PPI) in the water sector, exploring barriers to effecti...

Environmental and social regulations included in Barcelona council contracts

Integrating green requirements is now obligatory in Barcelona (Spain) for all contracting bodies tendering for vehicles, IT equipment, food, vehicles and office supplies as well as a range of other hi...

HAPPI innovation platform brings products that aid the elderly to wider audience

The increase in the average age of the European population brings new challenges for hospitals and elderly care services, many of which are difficult to accurately evaluate. This difficulty also spawn...

Fair trade cotton takes centre stage in pan-European awards ceremony

Public authorities from France, Austria and the UK were honoured at the inaugural European Fair Cotton Procurement Awards, held in Bremen (Germany) in March. The four winners – the City of Paris (Fr...

European cities turn waste into a renewable energy source

The conversion of solid waste into biomethane may help reduce landfill and meet cities’ energy needs, according to findings from the UrbanBiogas project. The three-year project, which was funded by...

Updated EU Procurement Directives offer more scope for sustainability

In January 2014, the European Parliament adopted three new public procurement directives: general Directive 2014/24/EU, Directive 2014/23/EU on the award of concession contracts and Directive 2014/25/...

New INNOVATION SEEDS Portal Launched

An extended version of the INNOVATION SEEDS portal is now available, building on the success of its predecessor with practical, bottom-up information on eco-innovation from a variety of sectors. The p...

GPP2020 offers training materials in eight languages

Free training materials for both trainers and procurers have been made available on the GPP2020 website. They are available in the eight project languages (Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, German, Italian, P...

EUREAPA tool analyses the impact of changing consumption and production patterns

The EU-funded One Planet Economy Network (OPEN) has developed a free online tool to help policymakers analyse the environmental impacts of different policy options. The EUREAPA tool allows users to un...

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