EC GPP Case Study - Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland - As part of the urban transport project, MZK published its most recent call for tenders in June 2019 for 6 electric low- floor city buses with a dedicated traction battery charging system for the city. The procuring authority chose an open procedure to make sure that all interested suppliers could deliver bids.

EC GPP Case Study - The City of Helsingborg applied an open procedure for a framework agreement for a wholesaler who could provide €690,000 worth of food for schools and nursing
homes. The City wanted to ensure that the wholesaler was capable of providing sustainably certified food (i.e. organic or responsible produced palm oil), which is nutritious, ethical, and delivered in packaging that would be easy to recycle.

EC GPP Case Study - Ludwigsburg wanted to award a new two-year framework agreement for office stationary and office material, which would decrease the overall price while also allowing for green criteria to be included in the call for tender.

EC GPP Case Study - Helsinki Service Centre aimed at improving their operations of food transportation to become more customer-friendly and reliable, save costs, significantly reduce the environmental impact of their operations. Three separate calls for tender were published that jointly cover all food transportation and logistics for Helsinki Service Centre.

In 2010, Stockholm County Council introduced stringent new environmental requirements for purchasing computers. The new stipulations include low energy consumption, the use of recycled plastic in new products and eliminating lead, mercury and halogenated flame retardants from new computers.

The Procurement Clinics scheme run by RAKLI (the Finnish Association of Building Owners and Construction Clients) is designed to facilitate dialogue between public sector clients and potential service providers. Workshops involving clients, suppliers and other relevant actors analyse a specific procurement problem indicated by a client and publicly present identified solutions.

Listen to what the cities and other public authority partners have to say about their experiences on sustainable procurement to drive innovation in energy efficiency. The original video is available in English. Several versions of the video are also available with subtitles in the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, German and Danish.

The Municipality of Kolding shares their experience having used the SMART SPP approach including pre-procurement, early market engagement and lifecycle costing and CO2 assessment for the procurement of indoor lighting solutions.
Further language versions can be downloaded from the project website.

The Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO) shares their experience having used the SMART SPP approach including pre-procurement, early market engagement and lifecycle costing and CO2 assessment for the procurement of outdoor lighting solutions.
Further language versions can be downloaded from the project website.