The official Ecolabel of the Nordic countries, was established in 1989 by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

ENIGMA is a FP7 project that aims to implement a joint transnational pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure in the field of public lighting. Coordinated by the city of Eindhoven, the project’s 5 partner municipalities (Eindhoven, Malmo, Stavanger, Espoo and Bassano del Grappa) cooperate on procuring innovation and testing in a real-life environment the technologies that their commercial subcontractors develop.

ENIGMA is a FP7 project that aims to implement a joint transnational pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure in the field of public lighting. The 5 project partner municipalities cooperate on procuring innovation. This report identifies in detail the assessment criteria developed to ensure innovative lighting solutions meet joint needs identified by ENIGMA partners.

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

The report collects a series of public procurement case studies from six nordic countries. Case studies go from sustainable transport procurement examples to environmental management standards and construction case studies.

The purpose of this project was to clear out how Green Public Procurement has been realized in state framework contracts in the Nordic countries, to propose country-specific ways to improve the situation, and to draw a general model of efficient ways to realize green state framework contracts. The target group includes organizations preparing/ making state framework contracts in each Nordic country, political representatives, government officials, consumer and environmental agency officials, and others interested in GPP.

Oslo’s Climate Budget is a means of showing where emissions must be reduced and who is responsible for doing so. The Climate Budget provides an overview of the measures that the City Government is planning to implement within the period of its current economic plan in order to fulfil Oslo’s climate goals. Measures include objectives related to procurement and establishment of climate-smart markets.

This document presents a new strategy for Oslo Municipality's procurement of goods, services, buildings and construction. The municipality's procurement strategy is to provide a common overall basis for thinking and behaviour by municipal agencies, so that procurement becomes an effective instrument for providing residents, businesses and industry with quality solutions and services in line with the needs of today and tomorrow.

Oslo City Council decided to phase out use of fossil fuels for heating purposes in all schools. The main objective of the procurement procedure was to reduce the environmental impact of Oslo’s heating systems, particularly CO2 emissions. As well as innovative solutions for renewable energy based heating in Oslo schools, the municipality required an improvement in existing technical and operational standards, along with improved environmental performance and value for money. There were four stages to the process; market consultation, a pre-commercial competition, a development phase and tendering. Many ideas from the competition and outputs from the development projects were implemented. Heating systems now use ground solar heat collectors, ground heat pumps, air-to-liquid heat pumps, bio-oil, bio-gas, solid biofuel, and various combinations of these instead of fossil fuels. The City Council successfully phased out these 52 non-renewable systems before the end of 2011. The project has resulted in an annual reduction of approximately 3,000 tonnes of CO2 .