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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28 November 2011

Carbon literacy e-learning course launched

The Defra-led National Sustainable Public Procurement Programme (NSPPP) has launched a free carbon literacy e-learning course for public sector organisations.

13 September 2011

Germany creates landmarks in Green Public Procurement

Public authorities are major consumers in Europe and the European Commission is encouraging the use of ecological criteria in the public market-place. Germany, one of the ‘Green 7’ EU countries wh...

UK public procurement most expensive in EU

A new report conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has revealed the UK’s public procurement process to be the most expensive in the European Union, with the average cost...

Draft EU GPP Criteria for medical equipment seeks stakeholder comments

New EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria have been developed for electrical and electronic equipment used in the health care sector. Stakeholders are invited to comment on the criteria by 2 Sept...

InnProBio factsheet explores sustainability of bio-based products

The InnProBio project has just released its second factsheet on the sustainability of bio-based products. The factsheet includes information on feedstock, end-of-of life bio-based products and Life Cy...

PPI4Waste final conference

The PPI4Waste project will host its final conference, "Feedback and opportunities for public procurement of innovation in the waste sector" on 12 September in Brussels. The purpose of the conference i...

The state as a role model for sustainable consumption

In an article published this week, Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter underlines the...

Innovation procurement, Circular Economy and Local Green Deals in the Intelligent Cities Challenge Second City Lab

Last week, 136 small to medium sized European cities met during the Second City Lab of the Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) to exchange on their plans for digital, green and socially responsib...

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