The principal objectives of the joint procurement were to take the country’s first significant step towards creating demand for electric vehicles and to demonstrate the suitability and readiness of Sweden’s market to manufacturers. To date, over 200 vehicles have been purchased under the framework. Use of the electric vehicles in operation between January and June 2012 saved almost 7 tonnes of CO2.

The factsheet explores the procurement carried out in cooperation with the Department for Category Management for vending machines, operating under the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment.

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.

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.

Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) is the Department of Public Works within the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.RWS uses the ‘Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) procedure to select tenders on the basis of price
and quality.