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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27 December 2012

Austrian Procurement Agency opts for TCO Certified IT equipment

Austria’s Federal Procurement Agency (BBG) has announced that a major procurement for notebooks and tablets, scheduled for 2013, will include sustainability requirements based on certification label...

20 December 2012

Call for submission of bids to host the the 9th EcoProcura Conference 2014

ICLEI – Local Governments for sustainability are inviting European cities to submit a bid to host the 2014 edition of the EcoProcura conference. The ninth in the series, the conferences seek to gene...

18 December 2012

New publication explores public and private sector procurement in Brazil

A new publication on sustainable procurement, Sustainable Procurement: the power of public and private consumption for a green and inclusive economy, has been released in Portuguese. The publication h...

14 December 2012

Report finds public purchasing has the power to influence the market

A new report analysing local governments’ experiences of energy efficient purchasing (EEP) has concluded that EEP policies and programs can be an effective way to promote energy efficient products b...

12 December 2012

Public Sector Procurement Directive subject of debate and revisions

On 18 December the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) will vote on a series of amendments to the proposed new public sector Procurement Directive. ...

6 December 2012

Ihobe publishes guide to help local authorities continue GPP practices

Ihobe has published a guide to help public administrations find arguments and strategies to continue including an environmental perspective in their procurement practices, enabling them to continue us...

4 December 2012

GPP criteria for windows and external doors discussed at Brussels meeting

The second meeting for the revision of the GPP criteria for windows and external doors, facilitating technical discussions on the revised GPP criteria and the proposed benchmarks and verification proc...

29 November 2012

Events on Socially Responsible Public Procurement to be held in Germany and Spain

A seminar aimed at procurers, traders, policy makers and NGOs on buying socially responsible and environmentally friendly clothing and textiles will take place at the Senate for Finance in Bremen (Ger...

27 November 2012

Public consultation launched for new health care GPP criteria

Stakeholders are invited to comment on new EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for Electrical and Electronic Equipment used in the health care sector being developed by the Swedish Environmenta...

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