As part of the City of Rotterdam's drive to promote cleaner and more efficient transportation in the city, a framework contract was awarded by the City's car leasing department (Roteb Lease) for different types of passenger cars and minibuses - including full electric and hybrid vehicles.

The Municipality of Copenhagen, on behalf of a joint procurement community, has set a framework agreement on the procurement of up to 245 electric, hydrogen, and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

In a tender for vending machines likely to be awarded in June 2018, the University of Torino is focusing strongly on eco-innovation. The tender will centralise the service and optimise the number of machines available - reducing from 279 to 226 machines.

Oslo’s Climate Budget is a means of showing where emissions must be reduced and who is responsible for doing so. The Climate Budget provides an overview of the measures that the City Government is planning to implement within the period of its current economic plan in order to fulfil Oslo’s climate goals. Measures include objectives related to procurement and establishment of climate-smart markets.

This document presents a new strategy for Oslo Municipality's procurement of goods, services, buildings and construction. The municipality's procurement strategy is to provide a common overall basis for thinking and behaviour by municipal agencies, so that procurement becomes an effective instrument for providing residents, businesses and industry with quality solutions and services in line with the needs of today and tomorrow.

This study formulated four approaches to circular procurement, including the procurement of better quality products in circular terms, the procurement of new circular products, the use of business concepts that support the circular economy, and investments in circular ecosystems.

The OECD guidance aims to support governments in reforming their public procurement systems to ensure long-term sustainable and inclusive growth. The guidance includes suggestions and indications for reforming procurement to achieve savings and sustainable development and lessons learned from previous OECD Public Procurement Reviews.

Following the Government's Intelligent Public Procurement Strategy, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has developed a number of tools that make it possible in the bid phase to calculate what the total cost of a product will be throughout its use phase. The TCO tools have been developed for 13 product areas (in Danish).

This report draws on results from the European LIFE+ REBus project to outline guidance and recommendations on circular procurement. The project aims to reduce product consumption by demonstrating the commercial case for European businesses to change their business models.