Socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) requires analysis of the supply chain for goods, services and works to identify ways to positively impact on working conditions.
This guide analyses different instruments of verification that can be used at the various stages of a procurement process (pre-procurement, selection or exclusion criteria, technical specifications, award criteria and contract performance clauses/contract management).

The City of Munich has a long tradition of working on socially responsible procurement. A tender for the City of Munich’s most recent school food catering framework contract, which uses the ‘cook and freeze’approach, was launched at the end of March 2017.

The City Council - through its schools, kindergartens, offices and other buildings - is a major consumer of cleaning services and therefore has the potential to exert considerable influence over the Icelandic cleaning services market.

This guide aims to assist public procurers by showing practical examples. It presents practical examples of public entities from all across Europe, integrating social criteria in their ICT tenders and pursuing different approaches to control compliance. This includes both specific tenders (and the respective templates), structural measures and external assistance.

The guide describes the various tools that facilitate the integration of social criteria in public procurement, including verification schemes and validation, management systems, certifications, and explains the benefits of this practice for governments, companies and society.

A study produced by Adelphi as part of a services contract for the European Commission to support the High Level Group on Corporate Social Responsibility. It addresses potential success factors and challenges for addressing CSR issues in EU company supply chains.

The GSCP Reference tool on supply chain Social Performance Management Systems (SPMS) has been developed by and for buying organisations (retailers and manufacturers) to support them in monitoring and improving social compliance
performance in the whole supply chain.
The Reference tool is based on best existing practices, common approaches and shared standards, and is designed to reflect and be aligned with relevant international standards and in particular with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It can be used either to provide a general framework for an organisation wishing to create a SPMS, or as a benchmark for an organisation seeking to improve or develop an established SPMS.

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.

The procurement concerned the transportation of 150 students per year by the municipality of Capelle aan den IJssel, one of the 23 municipalities in the MRDH region. The purchasing department was launching a call for tender for a taxi service Capelle Hopper, which is for inhabitants who are not able or are barely able to travel by public transport.