SPP Regions tender model: Organic catering for hospitals in Piedmont
SCR, the central purchasing body for the Piedmont Region in Italy awarded contracts in 6 lots to provide organic catering services to hospitals across the region.
The LANDMARK project was about enabling European local authorities to act as key drivers for the promotion of fair and decent working conditions in global supply chains for certain products purchased by the European public sector in order to help to improve the living and working conditions of workers in Asia and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa particularly in the textiles, food, construction and electronics sectors.
SPP Regions tender model: Eco-innovative vending machines in Torino University
In a tender for vending machines likely to be awarded in June 2018, the University of Torino is focusing strongly on eco-innovation. The tender will centralise the service and optimise the number of machines available - reducing from 279 to 226 machines.
The state-owned company Leijona Catering, who cater for Finland’s defence forces, prepare about 70,000 meals a day, and annually purchase foodstuffs with a total value of about 30 million euros. The company has resolved to reduce environmental impacts along the food chain, using responsible food procurement as a key tool.
The purchasing pool of the Hospital District of South Ostrobothnia
The Hospital District of South Ostrobothnia ran a competitive tender in 2016 for the supply of foodstuffs to its purchasing pool for a two-year contract period.
Supplying seasonal and diverse organic fruit and vegetables
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.
Beyond the CAP: policies to support better UK
meat and dairy production post-Brexit
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.
A Plan for Public Procurement: Enabling a healthy future for our people, farmers and food producers
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.
