EU GPP Case Study - In 2018, the City of Malmö (Denmark) decided to pilot a procurement approach that would increase the reuse of furniture, while drawing as much attention as possible to existing internal services.

The goal of Odense's (Denmark) Framework Agreement was to achieve a high-quality service, which streamlined and simplified the entire process around the provision of clothing for approximately 2,200 permanent and temporary healthcare workers of the Elderly and Disability Administration, located across 39 different addresses in the city.

EU GPP Case Study - Overall, the City of Zurich’s holistic approach to (recycled) concrete procurement proves that by scaling-up sustainability requirements to a citywide approach, while also addressing ‘soft’ barriers such as the aesthetic concerns, the city has supported a systemic change in the its construction market.

Best practice case study as part of the European Commission GPP In Practice series focusing on TfL's extensive market engagement for the procurement of innovative lighting.

Working together, public buyers can shape the market by requiring corporations to implement social and environmental standards and monitoring progress. This is a brief introduction to social responsibility in supply chains of ICT.

Innovation-oriented public procurement to purchase renewable, bio-based aprons for the health sector in the Swedish region Skåne.

This European Commission guidance aims to encourage public buyers of goods and services to use public procurement as tool to stimulate innovation. It contains good-practice examples on reducing administrative burden, adjusting selection criteria, mobilising innovation brokers and designing an SME-friendly payment scheme to better attract innovators to public procurement.

ENIGMA is a FP7 project that aims to implement a joint transnational pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure in the field of public lighting. The 5 project partner municipalities cooperate on procuring innovation. This report identifies in detail the societal needs of the municipalities, which are to be addressed through PCP.

Electronics Watch is an independent monitoring organisation that helps public procurers to address the rights and safety of workers in their electronics
supply chain. By bringing together many public buyers as “affiliates”, it
allows them to achieve this more effectively than they could on their own.
It does this by offering tools and guidance to buyers and suppliers, and by directly monitoring factories.