This report aims to explore and explain Performance / Output Based Specifications (POBS) for Performance Based Contracting, reporting successful practices and outlining benefits and potential challenges.

The report explains the concept of Performance Based Contracting, looks into how this has been developed throughout time and reports a few successful best practices. Among these, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust procuring an energy performance contract; the Danish Municipality of Hedensted procuring heating and ventilation solutions with the aim to reduce both CO2 emissions and resource consumption.

The report also aim to explore the key steps necessary in order to execute a POBS based tender, including a 12 step checklist to follow and potential challenges for when using a POBS approach.

The report explains to public buyers what market engagement is, why they should engage with the market, and what the best steps to do so are.

This report gives an overview of the meaning of Circular Procurement and explores concepts and ideas related to the topic, including references to circular procurement examples.

The report includes reference to three priority focuses for circular procurement: the focus on services instead of products, a focus on the product's design, use phase and end of life and a focus on market dialogue. It includes a section on the benefits of applying circular procurement and some examples of circular procurement criteria for tendering.

The report finally reports a few examples of circular procurement models, presenting circular solutions and dealing with different products, from costruction and furniture to textiles and technologies.

GPP 2020 has demonstrated the huge energy and CO2 savings which public authorities in Europe can make by procuring innovative products, servicesand works. This report is a summary of the results.

Over the course of three years, more than 100 low-carbon tenders were implemented by over 40 public authorities in eight countries, resulting in calculated savings of over 900,000tonnes CO2e and 140,000 toe (tonnes of oil equivalent). GPP 2020 also put in place structures to support public authorities looking to implement low-carbon tenders in future. These include dedicated national helpdesks, replicable case studies and an international training programme

The guide is designed to assist public authorities and public transport operators in purchasing clean and energy efficient vehicles in full compliance with European legislation - in particular the Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD). It is primarily targeted at procurers and fleet managers, but will also be of relevance to policy makers and others involved in the transport sector.

The guide presents how environmental criteria can be introduced into the different stages of procurement procedures, together with information on life cycle costing (LCO) and other relevant topics. The information presented is complemented by various real-life examples from European public authorities.

The International Working Group on Ethics in Public Procurement brings together leading European public buyers of IT as a means for exchange, stock taking, discussion and identification of actions towards a next-generation ethical procurement of IT. This report documents their main activities in 2022.

This report presents the results of the mapping of Public Procurement and Catering Services (PPCS) which discloses the national legal framework and innovative approaches, organisational and business structures and operational ‘shop floor' performance regarding the provision of public meals. The report was developed through the EU-funded StratKIT project (Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: Sustainability Toolkit across Baltic Sea Region 2019-2021).
As the current practices of PPCS are closely related to the supranational policy framework, this is also briefly reflected with the best practices both from within and outside the EU. The information enables the analysis of the green or sustainable features as performed by country-specific PPCS. These results help the project partners to understand and identify the opportunities for sustainable development by PPCS.
StratKIT is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.

This report is part of the EU-funded StratKIT project (Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: Sustainability Toolkit across Baltic Sea Region 2019-2021). The framework model shows how Public Procurement and Catering Service (PPCS) provisions depend on specific country-based legal and market contexts while administered by public authorities and operating as a bundle of activity centres or domains.

StratKIT is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.

Public procurement is responsible for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Governments can accelerate their path to net-zero operations by adopting the green procurement framework – an approach designed by the World Economic Forum and BCG for the Mission Possible Partnership.