The City Council - through its schools, kindergartens, offices and other buildings - is a major consumer of cleaning services and therefore has the potential to exert considerable influence over the Icelandic cleaning services market.

This guide aims to assist public procurers by showing practical examples. It presents practical examples of public entities from all across Europe, integrating social criteria in their ICT tenders and pursuing different approaches to control compliance. This includes both specific tenders (and the respective templates), structural measures and external assistance.

The Wilanów District Office – one of 18 Districts of the City of Warsaw - carried out a procurement of environmentally-friendly cleaning and maintenance services for some of the city’s water supply and treatment plants.

The Toolbox aims to assist procurement and sustainability professionals interested in finding out more about bio-based products and services, and how to purchase them.

The project focuses on improving and promoting schemes that protect quality logos (names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs) and that take into account environmental, social and innovation-based criteria when awarding the public sector contracts to procurers and suppliers.

This guide provides the reader with information and recommendations on the implementation of green public procurement policies and is aimed at public purchasers and others who want to gain further insight into rules for using EMS and ecolabels in line with the 2014 Directive.

SCR, the central purchasing body for the Piedmont Region in Italy awarded contracts in 6 lots to provide organic catering services to hospitals across the region.

The SYMBI project contributes to improving the implementation of regional development policies and programmes related to the promotion and dissemination of Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy

This training module for circular procurement provides insights and practical guidance to procurement officials, policy makers and suppliers on how adopting circular procurement principles will help deliver improved sustainable public procurement which, in turn, will deliver associated environmental, social and financial benefits at organisational and national scale.