First video of a video series on socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) and its positive social outcomes, produced within the #WeBuySocialEU project.
It demonstrates how public buyers can promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, design for all, ethical trade, and seek to achieve wider compliance with social standards.

Second video on socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) and its positive social outcomes, produced within the #WeBuySocialEU project.
It demonstrates how public buyers can promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, design for all, ethical trade, and seek to achieve wider compliance with social standards.

The UK’s Government Digital Service, as part of its Global Digital Marketplace programme, was looking to understand how gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in information, communication, and technology public procurement can be integrated into GDMP delivery. This project examines the existing procurement global best practice. It then offers recommendations for incorporating and mainstreaming GESI into ICT procurement practices.

This project is a three-year EuropeanAid project aiming at improving the lives of workers and those impacted along different stages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain through research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy.

A report, published by the European Commission, collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards.

This toolkit is designed to be a practical tool with a range good practice examples: talking about human rights in the context of public procurement, how to link the policy context, requirements and contract management.

This study for the European Commission focuses on due diligence requirements to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for abuses of human rights, including the rights of the child and fundamental freedoms, serious bodily injury or health risks, environmental damage, including with respect to climate.

In a joint initiative, the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BeschA) and Bitkom have updated the purchasing conditions for the socially sustainable procurement of ITC products and ITC services. The updated version extends the obligations of suppliers of ICT products and services to respect fair working conditions.

This study first gives an overview of the use of pay and other social clauses in European public procurement, followed by in-depth case studies of five countries (Denmark, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the UK) where the use of pay clauses is of some importance in national procurement policy.