This guide addresses issues relevant to risk management in a public procurement of innovation.

The LCB-Healthcare project aimed to stimulate demand for innovative low-carbon solutions for the healthcare sector by providing procurement decision makers with the knowledge and tools to achieve more sustainable buildings within their budget constraints. This guide disseminates the findings of a workshop help by the LCB proejct.

This guide is intended for anyone within the tender and procurement process who in any capacity is involved in developing specifications and is looking to go further or has more ambition than setting minimum sustainability requirements in a tender and procurement process.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has developed an RICS Embodied Carbon Assessment Methodology to calculate cradle-to-gate embodied carbon emissions.

Zero Waste Scotland has developed a whole life costing tool focus on the resources used in a building. It employs alternate scenarios in order to evaluate different designs. It considers the impact of using different materials, the effectiveness of renewable energy solutions and operating costs over the lifecycle of a building.

The Scottish Futures Trust have developed a Whole Life Appraisal Tool for the built environment to assist the public sector procurer make informed decisions to optimise a built asset’s whole life performance.

GEC has created this Guide to help institutional purchasers identify potential sustainability gains associated with their procurement of cloud services by posing questions to Cloud Service Providers regarding their performance in several relevant areas.

This handbook is designed to help public authorities successfully plan and implement GPP. It explains the possibilities offered by European Union law in a practical way, and looks at simple and effective approaches to greening contracts.

This document aims to introduce the role that sustainable procurement can play to accelerate the transition to a circular economy and the shift towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production, based on the work conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme in this field and on the experience documented by partners and governments. The document intends to inform dialogues on how best to bring more circularity in our economies at global level; it is addressed to both public procurers and policy makers, as well as corporate buyers and business leaders.