This report presents the results of the mapping of Public Procurement and Catering Services (PPCS) which discloses the national legal framework and innovative approaches, organisational and business structures and operational ‘shop floor' performance regarding the provision of public meals. The report was developed through the EU-funded StratKIT project (Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: Sustainability Toolkit across Baltic Sea Region 2019-2021).
As the current practices of PPCS are closely related to the supranational policy framework, this is also briefly reflected with the best practices both from within and outside the EU. The information enables the analysis of the green or sustainable features as performed by country-specific PPCS. These results help the project partners to understand and identify the opportunities for sustainable development by PPCS.
StratKIT is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.

This report is part of the EU-funded StratKIT project (Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: Sustainability Toolkit across Baltic Sea Region 2019-2021). The framework model shows how Public Procurement and Catering Service (PPCS) provisions depend on specific country-based legal and market contexts while administered by public authorities and operating as a bundle of activity centres or domains.

StratKIT is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.

The EU-funded StratKIT project is about making the procurement of public catering services more sustainable. Public authorities have a large purchasing power and have the ability to give clear signals to the market towards green growth and circular economy. However, public procurement is a complex task and good practices in the Baltic Sea region are mostly isolated. StratKIT brings together public authorities, catering service providers and researchers in a network to set up a toolkit and an online open knowledge platform for sustainable public catering.

The project is funded by the the Interreg Baltic See Region Programme.

The Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit provides experience-based advice on how to set up innovative strategies and activities for sustainable public procurement and catering services. The toolkit was developed by the countries in the Baltic Sea Region, but can be used in many more places due to the generic descriptions in the tools. Start the change in your municipality, your company, your school, your hospital, or elsewhere! The Toolkit was developed as part of the EU-funded StratKIT project.

This analysis has been done by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability as part of ‘Procurement across the Value Chain’ - project under the One Planet Network. It demonstrates that procurement, as part of the middle stage of the value chain, has significant influence over the other stages across the value chain. The objective of the analysis is to better understand how procurement can be used as a tool to support more sustainable food systems. The review resulted in the identification and curation of seven impact typologies across UN World regions:
● Sourcing local through fresh and seasonal food items
● Smallholder-friendly procurement
● Supporting a healthy and nutritious diet
● Reducing waste from food and packaging
● Fair employment conditions
● Sourcing organic produce
● Increase of plant-based food and supporting animal welfare

Public procurement is responsible for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Governments can accelerate their path to net-zero operations by adopting the green procurement framework – an approach designed by the World Economic Forum and BCG for the Mission Possible Partnership.

The StratKIT project has developed eight recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement for national and EU policy makers as part of the Procura+ City Interest Group on School Food Procurement. These recommendations support the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The document was created through the international Working Group on Ethical Procurement of ICT. It gathers information concerning the ethical procurement of ICT in the following public authorities:
- Federal Institute for Sustainable Development, Belgium
- City of Helsinki, Finland
- Consip, Italy
- State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland
- City of Oslo, Norway
- City of Ghent, District09, Belgium
- Danish Central Purchasing Body, Denmark
- Region Stockholm, Sweden
- Aktionsplan Nachhaltige Beschaffung (NABE), Austria
- Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust, Norway

The document summarizes the work of the International Working Group on Ethics in Public Procurement for IT, which brought
together leading public buyers of IT as a means for exchange, stock taking, discussion and identification of actions towards a next-generation ethical procurement of IT.
At its core, the group consisted of 18 committed members from Belgium, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Austria, the
Netherlands and Switzerland.