Are you introducing social responsibility requirements into your procurements or policies? Do you want to be featured for your good practices? This is your opportunity!
The European Commission (EC) will produce a report that collects good practices on socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), and ICLEI and AEIDL are supporting the EC to identify these outstanding examples from local, regional, national and European buyers.
You are buying social when:
The European Secretariat of ICLEI seeks to fill the position of Sustainable and Innovation Procurement Officer within its Sustainable Economy and Procurement team. ICLEI’s Sustainable Economy and Procurement team has been at the forefront of the sustainable, circular, strategic and innovation procurement topic globally for 23 years. In more recent years our work has expanded to cover the topics of sustainable/circular local economies and financing. Our work supports public authorities in imp...
Please find the presentation of the Prominent MED project from last week's EU Week of Regions and Cities.
Next week, on the 16th October, ENSIE, Hétfa Research Institute and Galileo Progetti Non-profit Ltd and the Hungarian Public Procurement Authority are organising a conference in the framework of the Buying for Social Impact project in Budapest, Hungary.
Join us to talk about the about “Using social considerations in Hungarian public procurement”
If you wish to participate, you should also fill this template.
And you’ll find the Draft Agenda here
...The report Impacts and Insights 2019 measures sustainability progress among brand owners with IT products certified according to TCO Certified, 2015-2018.
Download report https://tcocertified.com/2019-impact-and-insights/#download
After selecting three new projects from the second call-round of 2019 the eafip-initiative has opened a 3rd call for eafip assistance.
The selected projects so far are:
CIVILnEXt is a Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project aiming to develop, test and validate a cost-effective and interoperable Operation Control Platform (OCP) for supporting EU civilian external policies in the long term. The underlying scope focuses on enhancing communications, knowledge-sharing, information access, situational awareness and preparedness towards improving efficiency, visibility and impact of missions with multinational demand and CSDP characteristics. This procu...
Next Thursday, 10th October (14.00 - 15.30 CET) the European Commission and ICLEI will host a webinar on the updated EU GPP criteria for Road Lighting and Traffic Signals (published December 2018), which have been designed to help public authorities reduce the key environmental impacts associated with the design, installation and operation of outdoor lighting.
The programme is as follows:
The Procura+ Awards Ceremony saw three cities and a European research organisation going up on the stage to get their recognition for their biggest successes in public procurement: Zurich won in the category ‘Procurement Initiative of the Year’, the City of Ghent in the ‘Sustainable Procurement of the Year’ one, the Municipality of Frederiksberg in the ‘Innovation Procurement of the Year’ category and the European Organization for Nuclear Research won the ‘Outstanding Innovation in...
How to link sustainable food procurement with strategic policies or climate change actions? How to overcome public procurement issues related to purchasing "local & regional food"? If 1€ invested in sustainable school meals brings up to 6€ in social return in investment imagine the impact of sustainable school meals all across Europe!
Join our interactive 30th Breakfast@Sustainabiliy's discussion with inspiring speakers from South Tyrol, Paris, Copenhagen, the Organic Cities Network Europe an...
If you are interested in developing your career as a Public Procurement Professional, you may be interested in King's College London's Public Procurement Distance Learning Postgraduate Diploma.
Taught by leading industry experts and academic professionals from a university ranked 1st for research and top 10 for Law in the UK.
You will have the opportunity to network with and learn from the likes of course director, Michael Bowsher QC, studying tender evaluation, selection & exclusion...
The SHUTTLE consortium - six forensics laboratories from France, Greece, Netherlands, Lithuania, Portugal and Israel - has now launched the call for tender for its pre-commercial procurement (PCP). The PCP focuses on the development of a traces analysis toolkit that will support the execution of forensic laboratories' missions. Deadline for submission of offers is 20 November 2019.
The final countdown for the Procura+ Awards ceremony, taking place next September 24 at the Nordic Edge Expo, has started. The eight finalists of this edition are getting ready to find out if their candidacies are selected by the jury as the winners of the different categories: Innovation Procurement of the Year, Outstanding Innovation Procurement in ICT, Sustainable Procurement of the Year and Procurement Initiative of the Year.
The Municipality of Frederiksberg (Denmark) and the City of H...
To all those attending Nordic Edge next week in Stavanger, you are warmly invited to the Innovation Procurement Exchange on Wedensday 25th 9.00-12.00. This is a chance to learn from experts in the field, mingle with Procura+ Award winners, and get feedback on your own innovation procurement challenges and ambitions.
Learn the latest from initiatives such as LEA, InnoBrokers, Big Buyers, and Procure2Innovate. Open slots are also be available for anyone interested in pitching their innov...
CIVILnEXt is a Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project aiming to develop, test and validate a cost-effective and interoperable Operation Control Platform (OCP) for supporting EU civilian external policies in the long term. The underlying scope focuses on enhancing communications, knowledge-sharing, information access, situational awareness and preparedness towards improving efficiency, visibility and impact of missions with multinational demand and CSDP characteristics. This procur...
SHUTTLE, acronym for ‘Scientific High-throughput and Unified Toolkit for Trace analysis by forensic Laboratories in Europe’, is a H2020 project financed by the European Commission (EC), aiming to develop a toolkit, which will facilitate the microtraces analysis collected in crime scenes.
The development of the SHUTTLE toolkit will be realised through a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) action, which is coordinated and jointly carried out among forensic institutes across Europe.
More precisely, th...
This is the title of two sessions which I have organised within the Royal Geographical Society annual international conference at Imperial College, London on the afternoon of Friday 30th August 2019.
There are ten speakers giving presentations about public food procurement from UK (4) Brazil (2), USA, Kenya, France, Sweden
For the session programmes see the attached files or the links below
http://conference.rgs.org/AC2019/357
http://conference.rgs.org/AC2019/388
To register f...
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As we are all involved in different innovation procurement projects and are supposed to create synergies between them, we are addressing you and would like to ask you for your input!
One of our tasks in Procure2Innovate, a network of competence centres for innovation procurement, is to collect recommendations for future funding schemes for innovation procurement as well as the identification of topics for future calls.
Since the consultation for HORIZON EUROPE is currently ongo...
The event will take place on October 3rd and 4th and this year we will focus mainly on strategy - International policies and strategies, National strategies for the development of responsible/sustainable public procurement, internal strategies for the implementation of responsible/sustainable public procurement within organisation. On Thursday, October 3rd, we will host i.a. guests from UN, OECD, EU, Polish UrzÄ…d zamówieÅ„ publicznych, Italian Consip, Swedish SKL Kommentus, Slovak Ministry...
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 their procurements. Since there are different approaches for innovation and it is always 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 means to improve.
In this sense, th...
The LEA Learntech Accelerator project aims to harness the power of public procurement of innovation (PPI) and pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to accelerate the purchase of innovative learning technology in European schools.
Learntech stakeholders from all 28 EU countries – including procurers, suppliers, learntech experts and schools – have signed-up to observe the projects activities and results by becoming LEA Followers.
It is still possible to sign-up as a LEA Follower, or, if you...
The call for tender has been published. The deadline for submission of proposals will be on the 28th of October 2019.
Six leading European procuring entities under the lead of AQuAS challenge the industry to develop a smart ICT solutions able to detect the presence of resistant microorganisms, give real-time feedback to the user and at the same time share the information with the healthcare provider electronic record systems linking the infection with the place of the detection.
The av...
Are you part of a public sector research organisation with needs for standards-based, cost-effective data archiving and preservation service?
If so, you might be interested in the ARCHIVER project , which is creating an eco-system for specialist ICT companies active in archiving to introduce new services capable of supporting the expanding needs of research communities. The ARCHIVER Early Adopter Programme is open to organisations with a special interest in closely following the ARCHIVER...
The Spanish PROMINENT MED team had the challenge of refurbishing an old storage building in Alzira, València (Magatzem de Cucó, C/ La Pau 28, 46600, Alzira) in an energy efficient manner. The needs analysis revealed that the building was going to be the future youth municipal house and therefore it was planned to be diaphanous, acoustically-insulated, and thermally comfortable and energy efficient.
The key cornerstones were to reduce the weight of the price of acquisition of the supply, the c...
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