Recommendations to national policy makers on Circular PP
A set of recommendations directed at national policy makers has been published by the Circular PP project. These recommendations are the result of a large analysis conducted by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) to assess the state of circular public procurement policy and practice across eight Baltic Sea countries (Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, Poland, and Finland) as well as comparisons to the Netherlands and UK. The full analysis can be found here.
Gaps and needs on Public Procurement of Innovation for SMEs
The HAePPI project, framed within the Erasmus + programme, has emerged with the aim of developing a new learning curriculum on PPI in line with the needs of habitat and eHealth SMEs.
As a first step to achieve this goal, project partners have dedicated the first months of the project to conduct a study to identify the needs and gaps that currently have SMEs to participate on public tenders of innovation, that are necessary to be covered in the future HAePPI training course.
For this, they have benefited from the participation of almost 25 public authorities and SMEs of the European Union. Through interviews with experts, public procurement responsibles, and SME´s CEOs and managers, they have been able to see first-hand on the barriers SMEs have to face this kind of public tenders, aspects of a tender that could facilitate SMEs participation, and what are the key aspects for a future training on PPI.
The information collected has been analysed into final report, that encloses an introduction to PPI concept, a brief analysis of the benefits and barriers of the participation of SMEs in PPI tenders through different references, and the results of the survey performed by HAePPI project partners.
INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS: Good advice and experience in implementing innovative development partnerships offering.
Report providing an overview of lessons learned from the Municipality of Frederiksberg's pilot innovation partnership to procure future rainwater management solutions.
Danish
Europe/EU, Denmark
Buildings and construction, Infrastructure, Green spaces
Public procurement of energy- efficient works, supplies and services
This report aims to provide an insight in the results achieved by projects supporting the uptake of public procurement of energy-efficient works, supplies and services, under the Intelligent Energy Europe II programme and the Horizon 2020 programme.
BuyZET Handbook - Procuring zero emission delivery of goods and services
This guide is designed to assist city administrations to use their public procurement activities strategically to help reduce traffic in urban areas, and promote the use of zero emission vehicles in urban logistics.
English
Europe/EU, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway
Transport and vehicles, Energy, Buildings and construction
Report on Daejeon's approach to GPP including target setting, connecting procurement to the city's environmental ordinance and an annual training session.
Carbon footprint and raw material requirement of public procurement and household consumption in Finland
The aim of the research was to analyse the carbon footprint (i.e. life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions) and raw material requirements (RMR) for public procurement and household consumption. The main
method used was the environmentally extended input-output model ENVIMAT, supplemented with statistics on public procurement.
English
Europe/EU, Finland
Transport and vehicles, Energy, Buildings and construction