This paper proposes a revised definition of sustainable procurement. It encourages the observation of 10 standards for public procurement for sustainable development and includes case studies from Papua New Guinea, Ecuador and Brazil.

Through the Big Buyers Initiative, a working group on Zero-Emission Construction Sites brings together the cities of Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lisbon, Oslo, Trondheim and Vienna to promote zero-emission construction sites, focusing on alternatives to traditionally diesel-driven non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) used to carry out construction works (such as diggers, excavators, wheel loaders, etc.).
The group began collaborating in April 2019, and herein shares key takeaways from a year and a half of capacity building, market dialogues, and learning-by-doing through pilot procurements with fossil- and emission-free components.

This report provides an overview of the major challenges facing NBS procurers in the EU, along with case studies of success in addressing those barriers across nine European cities. The findings may help other public authorities adapt their procurement processes to procure NBS more effectively.

This swedish report describes a pilot study carried out at three administrations in the city of Gothenburg. It has to the highest degree been a development work of purchasing analyzes within parts of a practical municipal environmental work.

The UK’s Government Digital Service, as part of its Global Digital Marketplace programme, was looking to understand how gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in information, communication, and technology public procurement can be integrated into GDMP delivery. This project examines the existing procurement global best practice. It then offers recommendations for incorporating and mainstreaming GESI into ICT procurement practices.

Under the PPI4HPC project, funded by the European Commission (call EINFRA-21-2017), a group of leading European supercomputing centres (BSC in Spain, CINECA in Italy, Forschungszentrum Juelich-JSC in Germany and GENCI/CEA in France) formed a buyer’s group to execute a joint Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) for the first time in the area of High-Performance Computing (HPC).
The document provides details on the procedure that the partners undertook to initiate and run the joint public procurement process and the legal lessons that they learnt along the course of actions.

The Circular PP project recorded the lessons learnt from pilot circular procurements in three places - Aalborg (Demnark), Malmö (Sweden), and several Latvian municipalities. This summary leaflet presents the main lessons from each pilot.

The following report presents the findings of work package 2.2, of the Circular PP project. The focus of this work package is to analyze and provide an overview of best practices within business model innovation for a circular economy and provide recommendations for business models and partnerships approaches suitable for circular public procurement.

This study provides an overview of current policies related to circular public procurement in the different countries of the Baltic Sea Region, identifying the main existing gaps and the lines of action that are to be set as a priority in the following years. The study also highlights good and best practices in the field of circular public procurement, and shows examples on how circular elements can be considered in the tendering documents.