In this month's issue you can read about the following:
• New European Commission guidance on Buying Social
• Interview: Portugal’s National Strategy for Green Public Procurement makes progress - José Paulino, Environment Agency (Portugal)
• Good practice: Upgrading streetlights using an Energy Service Company model (City of Gabrovo, Bulgaria)
• Zoom in on… Big Buyers launches four working groups
• Zoom in on… LCC tool for indoor office lighting
• Zoom in on… Renewable energy for buildings
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On June 30th (12:00-13:00 CET), the Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit will be bringing together public buyers and companies working in the NBS sector to share best practice on the public procurement of NBS.
Including NBS in public tenders or responding to public tenders for NBS can be challenging for both public aut...
INCAREHEART brings together five procurers: Region Jämtland Härjedalen (Sweden), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), Region of Central Macedonia (Greece), Santa Casa Da Misericordia Da Amadora (Portugal) and Ministry of Health of Turkey.
Together they will devote €4,650,000 to a Pre-commercial Procurement of innovative ICT-enabled integrated care solutions to advance multidisciplinary health and care for patients with chronic heart failure. In preparation for the PCP Cal...
23rd of June, the City Council of Carcaixent, with the collaboration of the Energy Area of the Consorci de la Ribera, will hold an on-line OPEN MARKET CONSULTATION prior to the preparation of a PPI in the framework of the project "SMART BUILDING CPI 2020”. https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:299684-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
The event is aimed at designers of innovative solutions interested in participating in the tender for the drafting of the refurbishment project of the building at C/...
Here is some more information from our latest report.
In complex product categories such as IT, social and environmental risks run high. TCO Development, the organization behind the sustainability certification for IT products TCO Certified, has launched the new report ‘Navigating the Sustainable IT Revolution – The critical role of independent verification’. The report helps buyers worldwide accurately verify social and environmental aspects of their purchases.
“The millions of workers...
PSCE is the coordinator of a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) in the frame of BroadGNSS Eu-funded project (Innovation activity for Applications, Synchronisation and Monitoring of Critical Mobile Broadband Communication Infrastructure and Information Assets for Public Protection and Disaster Recovery (PPDR) Operations).
In preparation for the BroadGNSS PCP request for tender, an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers and end-users is held to hear the views of the mar...
Dear friend,
If you already participated in UNEP’s 2021 Sustainable Procurement Stakeholder Survey, we thank you for your participation. Your responses will help us learn more about sustainable procurement implementation, possible barriers and facilitators, current trends, and opportunities to increase sustainable procurement activities.
This email is a reminder to those who have not completed the survey. There is still time. The survey is open through 11 June 2021. As a recognized lead...
In preparation of the PCP call for tender, ROSIA will conduct an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers to broach the views of the market about its scope. As part of the preparation for an innovative drives procurement action, the OMC involves the proactive analysis of technology offer and provides a pre-information to the market in order to give a congruous time for the preparation of fit-for-purpose proposals.
Prior to the OMC, four online information events organiz...
On 15 June, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is organizing an informative webinar to learn more about the first edition of the European Innovation Procurement Awards 2021 (EUIPA). Applications are open and the deadline for submissions is 29 July 2021.
EUIPA Awards recognises powerful cases of public and private buyers (procurers) on using innovation procurement practices across Europe. It aims to support the community of European procurers to share, work toge...
On June 14th 2021, 4-5 pm CET a group of countries and regions is launching the Circular and Fair ICT Pact (CFIT). Participants of this new international partnership will use their collective procurement power to accelerate the ICT sector towards becoming more circular and fair. Actions will be taken in good dialogue with the ICT industry and other relevant actors. The pact is an initiative under the UN One Planet Network SPP Programme.
You can register here and more information can be...
The UN Environmental Programme is partnering with Arizona State University researchers and other experts to develop the 2021 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement, following the 2013 and 2017 editions.
We are currently conducting a stakeholder survey to better understand the state of sustainable procurement, the barriers to successful implementation, current trends, and future opportunities to advance sustainable procurement. The results of the survey will be analysed and integ...
Health Care Without Harm Europe and EcoQUIP+ are organising an online event to present and discuss the opportunities for increasing circularity and sustainability in healthcare by leveraging the sector’s purchasing power to stimulate innovation.
Read more about the event and found the registration link here: https://noharm-europe.org/articles/news/europe/event-driving-circular-economy-healthcare-through-innovation-procurement
The second edition of the European Commission's ‘Buying social: A guide to taking account of social considerations in public procurement’ provides practical indications for public buyers to consider the social impact of the goods, services, and works they purchase. The guide is updated to reflect the changes brought about by the 2014 EU directives on public procurement and includes suggestions on how to use public procurement to achieve social goals. It covers the entire procurement process...
Join the #INCAREHEART Open Market Consultation, a series of activities in June 2021 to give advance notice to potentially interested bidders about the upcoming call for tender.
Procurers from five countries are providing up to €4.6 million for the development of new solutions for their patients with chronic heart failure.
During the events, you will become familiar with the #INCAREHEART initiative, how innovative market players can participate, and the benefits that the tender proc...
Welcome to the May issue of the Green Public Procurement (GPP) News Alert.
A quick look at this month’s headlines:
The ‘European Social Economy Summit’ #EUSES is a jointly organised digital conference by the European Commission and the City of Mannheim. The conference aims to strengthen the #SocialEconomy in Europe and harness its contribution to economic development, social inclusion, and green and digital transitions.
The session “Tapping the potential of the social economy to make socially responsible public procurement work” will take place on 27 May 2021 from 11.30 am to 1pm. It is organised by A...
On the 18 May 2021 (14:00 - 15:30 CET) this partner event of the EU Green Week 2021, will dive into the world of circular procurement and will focus on sharing knowledge, expertise and lessons learned.
After joining this ProCirc seminar, procurers, policymakers and other stakeholders will have answers to the following questions:
Dear All,
Following the instructions we received from the European Commision, to promote the publication of the PIN and launch of the OMC of our project, we, Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE), as the Coordinator of BroadGNSS project, that is financed by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), are pleased to announce you that:
The BROADGNSS buyers' group (FR, FI, EE) invites potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for its upcoming pre-com...
The European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) is organizing an online 4-hours workshop-webinar on 18 May 2021 about how it can help the public sector use innovation procurement to boost green-digital economic recovery. The spotlight will be on success cases that EAFIP supported in the past. They will share the approaches they used to maximise impacts, both from the buyer’s and the supplier’s perspective. For public buyers that want to start new innovation procurements, EAFIP wil...
Nature based solutions need to become key part of the urban development landscape. However, public authorities often still face barriers when trying to fund and procure projects which include NBS features.
To help procuring authorities build capacity on that topic, ICLEI is co-organising a knowledge exchange session on procurment and funding models to speed up the delivery of NBS in cities. The session will be led by the city of Milan, who are pioneering new approaches to delivering NBS unde...
Get rewarded for your outstanding procurement action!
The Awards, an ICLEI Europe initiative, supported by the EU-funded Procure2Innovate project, reward sustainable and innovative public procurements leading to significant improvements of public goods, services, processes and infrastructure.
Public authorities are invited to submit applications across four different categories: Sustainable Procurement, Innovation Procurement and Procurement Initiative of the Year, as well as Outstanding...
This free one-hour webinar is your chance to learn from the SPLC's Overall Program Leadership Award Winner for 2020, the government of the Basque Country in Spain.
In 2016 the Government of the Basque Country launched a green public procurement commitment program encouraging all public agencies in the region to commit to annual GPP Planning and reporting, in an effort to boost sustainable public procurement. The results have been stunning, with participating organizations integrating environmen...
The importance of long-term data preservation is underlined in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Nevertheless, it is not clearly specified how this aspect will be implemented or provided, considering that long-term preservation is not yet part of the EOSC service portfolio. ARCHIVER is the only EOSC-related H2020 project focusing on archiving and long-term data preservation, providing the research community with archiving and preservation s...
The European Assistance to Innovation Procurement (EAFIP)-initiative has been relaunched.
A new call is open now. Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply for free assistance to your innovation procurement of ICT-based solutions.
New calls, webinars and online workshops will follow throughout the year.
Check out www.eafip.eu for more information. https://eafip.eu/
Dear Procurement Forum Member,
I am delighted to be able to share a special opportunity with you. The Global Electronics Council (GEC), in partnership with The Academy of European Law (ERA), is sponsoring an EU Public Procurement Law & Sustainability online course taking place from April 12-14, 2021.
This is an invite-only event targeted to leaders in the public procurement and/or policy field. There is a limited number of seats available and tuition-free for all invited attendees. GEC is...
