The City of Copenhagen is dedicated to ensuring its food and catering service is healthy, sustainable and appetising. The City has a target to supply 90% organic food across its 900 municipal canteens. In 2014 the municipality ensured that bids for fruit and vegetable contracts would include a variety of different sorts, varieties and types.

Recommendations from the Eating Better
alliance for livestock’s role within a sustainable
food and farming system for a post-Brexit UK, including public sector food procurement.

This report represents the outcomes and recommendations of an initiative, A Plan for Public Procurement: Food and Catering Services set out to identify key areas where British public procurement could be improved

The purpose of this document is to support Member States in translating their national school food standards related to health and nutrition into food procurement specifications.

This guidance has been developed to help those involved in commissioning of food and catering services to ensure that the service provides both health and sustainability benefits. It will also help those who must meet or have chosen to meet Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering (GBSF) commission a service that meets these standards.

This toolkit builds on the principles of Healthier and More Sustainable Catering and supports those who have a role in commissioning, procuring and serving food to older people. It provides tips on choosing, preparing and serving food for older people as well as providing advice for those who must, or choose, to meet Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering Services.

This case study reports the example of Turin's procurement of school catering. To gain a better understand of what levels of greenhouse gas emissions were produced at different stags of the food procurement, a detailed study was commissioned from the University of Turin to look into the carbon footprint of the catering system in more depth.

This tool allows you to look into technical criteria for different products. The tool will report for each product a ''Basic'' standard and an ''Advanced'' standard section. The tool also provides links to the different verification standards so they can be compared.

The Localim factsheets series aim to guide the public purchaser through each of the stage of his / her purchase project offer 8 factsheet on the purchasing process and 6 factsheets on specific products and sectors.