The UrbanWINS team is hosting a webinar on food waste, next Tuesday 12th March, 11.00-12.30.
Here is the programme:
HOW CAN CITIES TACKLE FOOD WASTE?
11.00. Welcome and introduction
Meritxell Díaz, Communications Officer, ICLEI European Secretariat
11.05. Why we want to fight food waste
Hanne Heymans, Project Manager FoodWIN
11.25. Cremona and the fight against food waste: enhancement of the recovery and the donation of food surpluses and promotion of ...
The way IT products are produced, used and scraped is affecting the world. IT products have a large number of complex supply chains, covering many companies on several continents. From minerals extraction through final assembly, computers and other devices come with social and environmental risks we’re working to eliminate.
Be part of a change making IT-products circular! Want to know how? Watch This is IT - a short video https://tcocertified.com/this-is-it/
Project office Technology Base, responsible for the development of a leading regional test bed situated in Twente, The Netherlands, announces its long year commitment to implement innovation procurement strategies & methodologies into its test based area - supported by Corvers Procurement Services BV, the European experts on innovation procurement. Project office Technology Base and Corvers signed a cooperation agreement on innovation procurement on February 1st.
Cees Timmer, CEO of Project...
The conference is an opportunity to know in more detail the opportunities and models of the Public Procurement of Innovation. Here below, more information about the two open tenders of the health section is provided:
Join us for a workshop on "Scaling Sustainable Public Procurement" organized by Indian Railways Institute of Logistics and Materials Management
On Thursday 21 February 2019 the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement organizes a workshop on Big Data Innovation Procurement "How to capitalize on shared opportunities for public and private benefits" at Maastricht Management School in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The workshop navigates you through the knowledge, methodology and best practice that you can replicate in your practice. By structuring the course around 2 real-life cases of big data innovation procurement and several oth...
We are still looking for some speakers who like to find innovative companies offering innovative solutions for public needs. If you are interestted to gve a short presentation of about five minutes during our session on innovative procourement on Friday, 15th February 2019 let me know or get directly into contact with my colleague Heike Hofzimmer (hz@zenit.de) who is in charge with the organisation of the event (https://horizon2020.zenit.de/en/event/successful-ri-in-europe-2019-14022019-2/ ).
...Information about issue areas that TCO Certified handles
Conflict minerals - http://tcocertified.com/conflict-minerals/
Social responsibility - http://tcocertified.com/social-responsibility/
Hazardous substances - http://tcocertified.com/hazardous-substances/
E-waste - http://tcocertified.com/e-waste/
Circular economy - http://tcocertified.com/circularity-economy/
There’s still a lot of work to do to reach a sustainable life cycle for IT products. Some of the most pressing issues include the overuse of finite natural resources, alarming amounts of e-waste as well as violations of workers’ rights and labour laws in the supply chain.
Read mor and register https://tcocertified.com/news/webinar-using-purchasing-to-drive-environmental-and-social-progress/
Softwarepakketten waarvan de looptijd van het contract al jaren geleden is verstreken en waarvan de opdrachtwaarde van de diensten de meervoudigonderhandse aanbestedingsgrens te boven gaan.
Dit moet volgens mij voor veel gemeenten een herkenbare situatie zijn.
Ik zou graag van gedachten wisselen over hoe andere gemeenten dit bestuurlijk, financieel, organisatorisch en planmatig aanpakken / aan hebben gepakt.
Reageren kan ook direct via j.schilperoord@schiedam.nl
The Alu Circles initiative has planned a webinar to inform interested parties how to become involved in the recovery of aluminium from drinking water sludge.
The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12.00 h (CET).
Click here to register for the webinar.
For more information, please contact, Allied Waters, Jos Boere/Nicoline Scholman,
E jos.boere@alliedwaters.com / nicoline.scholman@alliedwaters.com or T +31 30 6069600.
Webinar
The initiative has planned a webinar to inform interested parties how to become involved in the recovery of aluminium from drinking water sludge.
The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12.00 h (CET).
Click here to preregister for the webinar.
For more information, please contact, Allied Waters, Jos Boere/Nicoline Scholman,
E jos.boere@alliedwaters.com / nicoline.scholman@alliedwaters.com or T +31 30 6069600.
The 3rd UrbanWINS CityMatch will be kindly hosted by the City of Malmö (Sweden) from March 6 – 8, 2019.
This CityMatch will focus on contract management for strategic and sustainable public procurement. Participants in this activity, together with contract managers from Malmö purchasing cleaning and transport services, will discuss about transport services for people with special needs, cleaning services for (office) buildings and schools, market analysis before tendering and the crit...
Allied Waters and Corvers launched the Alu Circles initiative that aims to increase the recovery of aluminium from residuals from drinking water production. The initiative builds on the promotion by the European Union of pre-commercial procurement (PCP) as a tool for the public sector to create business cases for recovery of valuable materials. By stimulating innovation procurement water utilities can offer sludge to the recovery market at lower costs compared to the disposal to the traditional...
The City of Gothenburg is Sweden’s second largest municipality. The region aims to be a forerunner in environmental and urban development and uses public procurement as a tool for driving positive change. CSR specialist Johan Davidsson has some top tips for success.
https://tcocertified.com/news/city-of-gothenburg-follow-up-is-key-to-sustainable-procurement-success/
Dear EU procurement collegues,
To broaden my horizon, refreshen my view of the world and just to have fun, I am looking for an internship at a public procurement department. Preferably on a public procurement department where the main language is German or English. The internship I am looking for can be for a few days up to one week somewhere in Europe and preferably with a focus on EU tendering or contractmanagement.
On offer: a well experienced procurement professional with 17 years of v...
On Thursday 21 February 2019 the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement organizes a workshop on Big Data Innovation Procurement "How to capitalize on shared opportunities for public and private benefits" at Maastricht Management School in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The workshop navigates you through the knowledge, methodology and best practice that you can replicate in your practice. By structuring the course around 2 real-life cases of big data innovation procurement and several oth...
The European Secretariat of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability seeks to fill the position of Officer within its Sustainable Economy and Procurement team. The role has a focus on financing sustainable urban development and infrastructure.
The team has been working on the topic of sustainable, strategic and innovation procurement for 22 years. In more recent years the team are also working on the topic of financing and sustainable local economies. The team support public authorities i...
Dear all,
I would like to share the link to the interview with the PPPI Service Center - national competence centre for innovation procurement - in Austria, part of the Procure2Innovate Network. I think it might be of interest to you to learn more about the services they offer to procurers and business.
http://procure2innovate.eu/stories/?c=search&uid=8hpchZd4
Enjoy the reading!
Meritxell
Cost reduction and sustainability are already proven in practice for residuals from drinking water production including lime pellets and ferric sludges. Aluminium based sludges are the next target, the disposal of which comes at substantial and ever-increasing cost. Alu Circles, an international initiative based on PCP (Pre-Commercial Procurement) principles, will make this happen. The overall budget for Alu Circles amounts to 1.5 million €.
Aluminium based sludges in drinking ...
Innovation cannot be a worn-out term. Since there are different approaches for innovation and it is allways a focus of discussion, it is still necessary to put it as a flagship for the development of society. Innovation is not a place to arrive and stay, but a mean to improve. In the core of companies, the philosophy of innovation should be a mindset to keep on being competitive and imaginative. Public administrations can play a key role for innovation to citizens by considering innovation in th...
As part of our work of support to our member States, we are looking for information and guidance related to the use of LCC in public procurement.
More specifically, we are seeking for advice on the design of LCC tender documents that limit the risk of non-performance of the contractor in relation to its LCC-related commitments. For instance through the appropriate use of penalties or testing schemes.
Could you kindly share with me specific tender documents using LCC in bids evaluation an...
Public authorities can now submit their candidacies to the 2019 edition of the Procura+ Awards, a major and prestigious recognition of procurements and related initiatives with remarkable economic, environmental and social impacts, or innovation elements. The Procura+ Awards is an initiative of ICLEI, in co-operation with the EU-funded Procure2Innovate project. The application period is open until 31st March.
The awarded public authorities will receive a trophy and have the right to pro...
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