National Assembly for Wales: Sustainable Public Sector Food Procurement
October 2012
The public sector in Wales spends over £70m a year on food, £20m of which is spent on the procurement of fresh food. The Welsh Government has a duty to ensure that sustainable development is central to all of its undertakings.
This paper examines the development by the Welsh Government of guidance for public sector organisations in working to embed sustainable practices, including reducing food waste and procuring locally, into their procurement practice.
Green public procurement in China: Quantifying the benefits
In the People’s Republic of China, policy-makers have introduced GPP into procurement practice. Since 2006, when the country launched its approach to GPP, billions of Chinese yuan renminbi worth of certified environmentally friendly goods have entered the market (International Trade Centre, n.d.), many of them purchased by the public sector. Nonetheless, as this working paper argues, there is large potential for further upscaling both the volume and the stringency of green requirements in GPP.
Low Carbon Vehicle Public Procurement Programme Summary Report
The Low Carbon Vehicle Public Procurement Programme (LCVPPP) which ran from 2008
to 2013 was one of the largest trials of electric and hybrid commercial vehicles carried
out in the UK to date. Funded by the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Office for Low
Emission Vehicles (OLEV), and managed by Cenex, LCVPPP placed 700 hybrid and
electric panel vans from four different manufacturers within 77 public sector fleets.
Green Procurement by Local Government: A Review of Sustainability Criteria
This report assesses the green or sustainable procurement practices implemented by local government, and environmental sustainability criteria in procurement policies of councils in South Australia.
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Australia
General GPP/SPP,
Local Government Association of South Australia (LGASA)
Supporting Public Procurement of Building Innovative Solutions: Cross-border appraisal of the state of the art
A report looking at the current state of the art of building ventilation, identifying what is currently available on the market and areas where there is further room for growth and improvement.
The Operational Lifetime Cost (OLC) method outlined in the Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD)1 is designed to allow the comparison of the environmental impacts of different vehicles in monetary terms, and thus include them directly in overall cost evaluations. It is one of three options allowed by the CVD when purchasing road vehicles. The methodology is designed to be technology neutral, allowing different technologies to be compared against the same evaluation framework.
