Dear Procurement Forum,

The Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Procurement (GLCN) has announced that its new chair will be Executive Mayor of Tshwane, South Africa, Solly Msimanga.

The GLCN is a group of 14 cities from around the globe committed to the implementation of sustainable and innovation procurement.

The announcement was made yesterday evening at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

More information on this latest appointment can be found here.

Members of the Procurement Forum are reminded not to miss this last chance to register for EcoProcua (3-5 October, Nijmegen). It's programme will be full of many of the issues discussed here in the Forum, including measuring the effect of SPP and increasing the implementation of innovation procurement.

Participants of EcoProcura can expect to:

• Discover how procurement can be used as an effective tool in achieving strategic aims through our interactive Breakout Sessions.
• Engage w...

The LEA project (LEA is an abbreviation of Learntech Accelerator) aims to speed up awareness and transfer of knowledge on the benefits and tools of innovation procurement to European organisations interested in digital learning technology.

The consortium, of which ICLEI is a partner in, are looking for public sector representatives interested in innovation procurement or procurement for education departments.

Procurers and other stakeholders are invited to sign-up as LEA Followers, who will rece...

RITMOCORE's Lead procurer, Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona, has published in the OJEU the Prior information Notice where the object of the contract is described and the Open Market Consultation activities are announced for early October this year.

RITMOCORE is a Public Procurement of Innovative solutions project, funded by the European Union under Horizon2020 (GA number 727796), addressing the evolution in the treatment of patients using or in need of an implantable pacemaker (PM). Mov...

The Green Electronics Council is developing the 2018 State of Sustainable IT Procurement Report, and your insight is key to understanding the sustainable IT purchasing patterns of institutional purchasers.

We want to hear what challenges you are facing in identifying and/or purchasing environmentally preferable IT products, along with which trends are creating the future landscape of sustainable IT procurement in your workplace.

Aggregated data collected from this survey will be used in GEC's...

TOPIC SC1-BHC-10-2019: Innovation Procurement: Next generation sequencing (NGS) for routine diagnosis

A SPANISH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL is looking for PUBLIC PROCURERS (healthcare services, hospitals, etc.) from EU countries to form a consortium and prepare a proposal for the above-mentioned topic. The main objective of the proposal is to further investigate the unmet needs in the field of NGS for routine diagnosis in the haematology domain to launch a PCP tender to find innovative solutio...

Can anybody tell me what you do about supplies contracts and subcontracts for your Direct Labour Organisations? I am looking specifically at housing repairs but would be interested to hear about anything. Do you aggregate spend and let a call off contract? Or a framework (single or multiple suppliers)? Or do you use a DPS? I would be very interested in hearing from anybody.

Thanks,

Mark Everest

Category Manager

London Borough of Camden

Are you planning to launch a Public Procurement of Innovation PCP/PPI tender in 1, 2 or 3 years? Do you want to attract other buyers interested in your future tender, making international buyers consortiums? Join the Programme about “Future projects of Public Procurement of Innovation” Smart City Expo – 14th November 2018

https://smartcity2018.b2match.io/page-1161

Don’t miss your chance to win €10,000 to help initiate your next sustainable and innovative procurement action with the 2018 Transformative Action Award.

Current or concluded actions in the field of procurement can apply for the award by the closing date of 31 July 2018. Applicants will be shortlisted in September and the award ceremony will be held at the European Committee of the Regions, Brussels (Belgium) in November 2018.

For more information and to apply for the Transformative Ac...

Dear all,

We would like to invite you the Live Market Engagement event: Sustainable procurement of ICT, taking place in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) on 3 October 2018, 9:00 - 13:00 CET.

The event will bring together suppliers of ICT with public authorities from all over Europe to discuss procurement needs and solutions relating to social responsibility of supply chains and represents a perfect occasion for public authorities and procurers to express to the ICT market and suppliers procur...

Your feedback on Innovative Procurement is needed!

The City of Haarlem is coordinator on the EU Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement. The Partnership now presents its draft Action Plan with 7 proposed actions to improve procurement by European cities. These are the 7 actions:

- Guidance on building city strategic procurement and how to manage strategic procurement (Action 2.1.1)

- Measuring spend and wider impact in European Cities (Action 2.1.2)

-...

Dear Procurement Forum members,

The European Secretariat of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is seeking to fill the position of Assistant in its Sustainable Economy and Procurement team. The role will involve working on European projects related to sustainable procurement, financing sustainable urban development and developing sustainable local economies and the working language will be English.

Please find the attached job advert with further details on the position, or visit http:...

The second draft of the Technical Report of the EU Green Public Procurement Criteria for Public Space Maintenance is now open for comments during the consultation period. The deadline for the submission of comments is 16 July 2018.

The report provides an update to the first technical report. It is based on the analysis of stakeholders comments to the criteria proposal presented during the first stakeholders meeting in Seville on 15 November 2017.

Please note that the technical report wh...

The Energy Area of the Consorci de la Ribera together with the City Council of Alzira will hold on June 27th at 11:30 in the Town Hall of Alzira, an informative session related to the PROCUREMENT OF INNOVATIVE EXTERIOR CARPENTRY (Exp. 04/2018) published today.

All bidders are invited to attend the session in which doubts regarding the tender will be solved and the building subject of the contract, the Magatzem de Cucó, will be visited.

The Website of Consorci de la Ribera is: htt...

COMPRA PÚBLICA INNOVADORA Y RESPONSABLE

12 de junio de 2018, Las Naves. C/ Joan Verdeguer, 16. 46024. València

REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.es/e/entradas-jornada-de-compra-publica-innovadora-i-responsable-46843959544

LA COMPRA PÚBLICA RESPONSABLE

9:30 Inauguración a cargo del Alcalde de València, Joan Ribó y el Concejal de Innovación del Ajuntament de València, Berto Jaramillo.

9:45 Cómo introducir la compra pública responsable desde las realidades existentes.

Toni Lodeiro...

ICLEI East Asia has launched the Procura+ East Asia network - the first network of its kind in the region working to support the advancement of sustainable procurement.

This is a very exciting step forward for sustainable procurement. Public authorities in East Asia represent an enormous market, and have shown an ability to speed-up sustainability initiatives at speed.

To find out more about sustainable procurement activities in China, a summary and highlights of EcoProcura 2018 - where...

TCO Development runs a webinar about smartphones and conflict minerals on June 13th. The webinar will provide insight to conflicts and violence when smartphones are manufactured.​

Read more and register http://tcocertified.com/upcoming-webinar/webinar-conflicts-and-violence-when-smartphones-are-manufactured/

I am actively working in developing a tailored e-tendering platform that is fully compliant with EU PRAG procedures.

The software bidding2win (this is its name) is a platform with the primary objective is to speed up the process of preparing the bidding dossier with the required documents and to the mandatory format to answer EU funded proposals.

The answer for these RFP is within the strict guidelines defined par the PRAG procedures found in this link http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag...