A series of case studies from five public organisations in Denmark, Portugal, Spain and the UK. demonstrating effective approaches to purchasing innovative, energy-efficient products.
Also available in Danish, Portuguese and Spanish on the website.

The Municipality of Župa Dubrovačka recognised the need to improve the quality of street lighting in the Municipality and decided to do so by installing a fixed lighting installation which would achieve that goal and thereby improve public safety, traffic safety and traffic flow at night.

Large scale scientific projects in fields like genome analysis, astrophysics, life science and photon science rely on global collaboration. This requires huge amounts of data storage and analysis tools which meet the specific needs of the science and research community. A group of ten public research organisations from 7 Euroepan countries – headed by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - joined forces in a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project, which aimed to design a cloud-based system specifically for science and research.

This PCP was cofounded by the European Commission’s H2020 Framework Programme via the Helix Nebula Science Cloud project. In recognition of its outstanding use of PCP, CERN was also awarded the 2019 Procura+ Outstanding Innovation Procurement in ICT Award, which is supported by the EU-funded Procure2Innovate project.

The new approach adopted by the CSUC members aimed to transform the procurement of cleaning services from a model based on the number of hours spent cleaning, to a ‘service’ model, based on quality and performance.

EC GPP Case Study - Consorci de la Ribera & Alzira Municipality (Spain) used an innovation procurement approach to sustainably refurbish an unused warehouse and transform it into a Youth Centre (“Casal Jove”) for Alzira. Suppliers were asked to provide innovative façade renovations which would significantly reduce the overall building energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions without compromising the building’s functionality and comfort.

EC GPP Case Study - a pilot project that aimed to increase the recovery and recycling of bricks when procuring demolition services for two buildings, a former police station and one other building, which were both located on the same road and were at the end of their functional life.

Practical manual for administration staff. Collection of most relevant success stories and examples of documentation models.

To address issues of plastic waste and reduce spending on bottled water, Mutualia decided to procure e.g. water fountains connected to the public water network, offering tap water instead of buying bottled water. The procurement has reduced both Mutualia’s spending on water and its plastic waste.

The city views the circular economy as an essential approach for achieving sustainability goals and is exploring procurement approaches where waste can become new raw materials and where public authorities purchase a specific service instead of buying a product.