FRESH was a European co-operation project aimed at demonstrating the potential of energy performance contracting (EPC) for social housing operators to achieve low energy refurbishment. A series of demonstration and dissemination activities were organised.

This report, and the project that led to it, seeks to address some of these challenges by researching existing methods and tools, then developing guidance for organizations wishing to measure and communicate the benefits being generated by their SPP programmes. The work that is presented in this report represents the results of an ongoing exploration of the topic conducted in 2014 and 2015 with a variety of participants, and lays the ground for future work on the topic.

This report examines how public procurement in Northern Ireland can better encourage innovation – the creation of new processes, products, ideas and services.

This document is the result of the discussions held during the Uraía Workshop which took place in Oslo on June 29 and 30, 2015. It is a working paper made in collaboration with the participants who attended the workshop including representatives of local governments, city networks, service and technology providers, civil society, international organizations and research institutes from all the five continents. It gathers general recommendations on city-business cooperation about SMART projects and it is based on the participants’ experiences.

In the People’s Republic of China, policy-makers have introduced GPP into procurement practice. Since 2006, when the country launched its approach to GPP, billions of Chinese yuan renminbi worth of certified environmentally friendly goods have entered the market (International Trade Centre, n.d.), many of them purchased by the public sector. Nonetheless, as this working paper argues, there is large potential for further upscaling both the volume and the stringency of green requirements in GPP.

The Low Carbon Vehicle Public Procurement Programme (LCVPPP) which ran from 2008
to 2013 was one of the largest trials of electric and hybrid commercial vehicles carried
out in the UK to date. Funded by the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Office for Low
Emission Vehicles (OLEV), and managed by Cenex, LCVPPP placed 700 hybrid and
electric panel vans from four different manufacturers within 77 public sector fleets.

A report looking at the current state of the art of building ventilation, identifying what is currently available on the market and areas where there is further room for growth and improvement.