EU GPP Case Study - In 2017, Lappeenranta launched a pilot procurement with the aim of introducing a fully-electric, versatile car-sharing service available to both city employees and third parties, such as residents, businesses and tourists.

This publication aims to provide guidelines for healthcare organisations that wish to procure healthier, more nutritious, and more sustainable vending services. Vending machines can be found in many public settings in Europe, including healthcare facilities. They offer a convenient solution to provide staff, patients, and visitors with basic food options when it is not possible to run a fresh meal service.

Region Stockholm, an ICLEI member, has identified ICT as a priority area to be addressed in their procurement, due to the high risk of human rights, labour rights, and child labour violations within the supply chain. This case study summarises the approach, results and lessons learned of a recent ICT procurement.

This report contains the results of the BuyZET market engagement in the City of Copenhagen on Craft & Facility Management Services.

This report contains the results of the first market engagement held on January 24 and 25, 2018 in Rotterdam for emission free transport within the City of Rotterdam.

This report contains the results of a market engagement held on March 27 and 28, 2018 in Rotterdam for Zero Emission (ZE) transportation within the City of Rotterdam.

The report elaborates on the BuyZET market engagement and research activities for the two priority areas: Maintenance and repair services (craftsmen) & Facility waste collection. The conclusions from the market activities with the suppliers in both areas is that they are positive to invest in zero emission vehicles (ZEV).

From beginning of the BuyZET project there has been interest within the organisation to look at the distribution of goods to gain financial savings besides having a positive environmental impact. To achieve savings in procurement contracts based on removing the responsibility for last mile distribution from the supplier, scale and volume is needed. And from that perspective consolidation is also interesting.

BuyZET Mapping has shown that procurement of craft (e.g. building, construction and maintenance) and facility management (e.g. cleaning, window cleaning, graffiti cleaning) services are responsible for around half of the transportation CO2-emissions in the service category in category 32. Since the nature of transportation in these categories is similar (typically using vans carrying some equipment), we assume it will be possible to address the issues regarding CO2-emissions related to the embedded transport in the same way for several of the sub-categories under craft and facility management services.