A collection of articles from academia, the public and private sector and the United Nations providing an overview of the current debate on procurement and innovation.

The city of Burgas in Bulgaria will shortly publish a tender for the deep renovation of its historical City Hall. The city has set the ambitious task of achieving over 50% energy savings, despite the restrictions caused by the historical nature of the building.

This guide is aimed at procurers in the Nordic healthcare sector who are responsible for purchasing textile products and services and assists them in developing processes for establishing suitable and practicable environmental criteria in tender documents.

Bristol Waste company, owned by Bristol City Council (BCC), has procured the retro-fit of existing lighting fittings to LED in its waste depot.

The Municipalities of Allerod and Fredensborg, in Denmark, have set a 2 year framework agreement on the procurement of light sources and lamp starters.

The Polytechnic of Turin conducted the pilot installation of 16 self-regulating LED lamps at the Department of Control and Computer Science.

The Cabot Learning Federation carried out the procurement lighting solutions for school buildings. The procurement aimed for the replacement of traditional fluorescent and incandescent lighting to low energy, low cost LED equivalents.

The Region of Nouvelle Acquitaine set very ambitious environmental targets for a new boarding school to be attached to the Lycée Xavier Bernard in the town of Rouillé.

When constructing a new crèche in Pipriac, the contracting authority, Redon Agglomération decided to apply ambitious environmental targets, in line with its commitments under the local eco-crèche charter.