SMART SPP promoted the introduction onto the market of innovative highly energy efficient technologies in the last stages of development. This was done by encouraging early market engagement between public authority procurers and suppliers in the pre-procurement phase, including the issue of tenders.

This guide discusses the incorporation of guarantees into service contracts in order to transfer some of the energy savings risks from the customer to the supplier.

Notes from an expert workshop in 2014 organised by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights considering the essential elements of national action plans for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

A document published by the City of Zürich's Construction Department for use during the tendering process about the origin of natural stones including definition of appropriate proof of compliance along the supply chain and example certification schemes.

This publication aims to enhance the experiences with procuring from social enterprises in France but also to echo the French practices to compare, confront, inspire, with the main objective to strengthen initiatives aimed at improving social enterprises' access to public tenders.

A case study on Madrid implementation of responsible timber procurement. Madrid is listed in the ‘green’ list of the WWF campaign “Cities Friends of the Forest”, amongst the top scoring in Spain for implementing procurement policies that
give preference to suppliers of wood certified with the maximum guarantee of social and environmental criteria.

This series of case studies describes how organisations from different countries have approached the verification of social criteria at various stages of the tender process. Each study looks into how the compliance of direct suppliers is monitored and how this applies to the rest of the supply chain. It is hoped that procurement professionals and other key stakeholders will be able to use the experiences of their counterparts to develop or improve verification systems in their own authorities.

In each chapter, the LANDMARK report on good practices presents
detailed verification and monitoring systems, after having briefly explained the overall approach of the municipality. Each case study has its conclusions and recommendations, although the objective is that each one draws their own conclusions and know which tools can adapt better to the organization for which you work.