The European Commission has just published a report collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards. Written by ICLEI and AEIDL, with the support of Public Procurement Analysis, Dialog Makarna and Social Economy Europe, the report ‘Making Soc...
As part of the AI4Cities project - www.ai4cities.eu - next week we are hosting two OMC consultation webinars:
If interested, don't hesitate to register!
About AI4Cities
AI4Cities is a three-year EU-funded project bringing together leading European cities looking for artificial intelligen...
Electronics Watch has just released the new assessment tool 'Human Rights Due Diligence and Covid-19 - Assessment of Public Buyers' ICT Supply Chains'. It supports public buyers in their efforts to ensure human rights due diligence in their supply chains in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The tool consists of questions public buyers can pose to their suppliers about occupational health and safety, labour rights, and other supply chain issues that Covid-19 impact. Public buyers can use th...
The partner in the INTERREG Central Europe project LOW-CARB plan to turn their project into a wide-spread reality. They invite everyone interested to join their online workshop on the 25th, June 2020 from 09:00 to 13:00 CET.
In the first part (09:00-11:30) partners will present their selected action plan measures & tools, and receive targeted advice on funding opportunities and innovation procurement.
the second part of the workshop (11:45 - 13:00) continues with 5 break-out sessions, in w...
A technical workshop took place in the Universitat Politècnica de València, focused on small and medium enterprises, as well as research and technological organisations, to share the lessons learnt during the implementation of PROMINENT MED. The main highlights of the experts who participated in the panels are gathered in the following lines.
Xelo Bisbal, architect of the municipality of Alzira, Spain, and responsible for the refurbishment intervention of the case study of PROMINENT MED, high...
Dear all,
We are looking to understand how public purchasing power can be used to fight racial discrimination.
Then please get in touch!
Look forward to hearing from you,
Elsa
elsa.durieux@iclei.org
Dear procurers/buyers,
As part of the AI4Cities PCP project - www.ai4cities.eu - we are running a survey to procurers/buyers interested in solutions for CO2 emission reduction. This survey is part of the Open Market Consultation phase.
Your input will be very userful to shape and refine the Request for Tenders (to be launched in December 2020).
Here is the link to the survey.
Thanks for taking part in it!
About AI4Cities
AI4Cities is a three-year EU-funded project brin...
On 29 January 2020 ARCHIVER launched its Request for Tender with the purpose to award several Framework Agreements and work orders for the provision of R&D for hybrid end-to-end archival and preservation services that meet the innovation challenges of European Research communities, in the contextof the European Open Science Cloud.
The tender was closed on 28 April 2020 and 15 R&D bids were submitted, with consortia that included 43 companies and organisations. The best bids have been selecte...
The current crisis has caused a major shift to online distance learning, affecting classrooms and lecture halls around the world. What can institutions of higher education do to be better prepared in the future? How can technology support and enhance learning outcomes for university students? What role can procurement play in ensuring that the technology developed suits students needs?
The LEA Project’s (learntechaccelerator.eu) goal is to accelerate knowledge transfer, dialogue and awaren...
The LEA Network ‘Procuring Resilient Education Technology’ series will bring five webinars to you this April – June, exploring the basics of how procurement can learn from this current crisis, and procure effective learntech now and in future.
In Webinar 3 of the LEA-N series, procurers will learn how innovation procurement can be used to procure learntech which meets user needs and which have all the necessary features, even those not currently available on the market.
Innovation procure...
AI suppliers, climate change experts and cities can register to the AI4Cities Open Market Consultation webinar
The AI4Cities project has opened registration to its first global Open Market Consultation webinar, taking place next May 28 (10.00 to 11.30 CET). In this webinar, the AI4Cities consortium will introduce the project and its ambitions, and will open the dialogue with potential suppliers of artificial intelligence solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality.
AI4Cities is a three-y...
Corvers Commercial & Legal Affairs and Vtrek present webinar on Covid-19 & Innovation Procurement: Applying the EAFIP business case methodology. The COVID-19 crisis presents unprecedented challenges to the public sector at all levels, and our response to it will shape the way the world looks going forward. Innovation procurement has a critical role to play in shaping this future.
This one-and-a-half-hour interactive webinar presents the methodology for conducting an accelerated business case...
Dear all,
Last week the report on the evaluation of the GPP Programme of the Basque Country for year 2019 was finalised and we want to share with you some of the findings.
According to data from the Basque electronic procurement platform, the level of GPP in the region for 2019 (all tenders considered) was 24% in number of tenders and 22% in economic volume.
However, not all entities contribute equally. By type of entity, those classify as "Other" (such as consortia, foundations, the...
We are very glad to share our new paper on "Public food procurement for sustainable diets and food systems: The role of the regulatory framework" just published at the Global Food Security Journal. Until June 12, it is possible to access and download it for free at the following link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ayCD7sxZ%7E5XMZ
The article builds on our FAO work on sustainable food procurement and aims to contribute to the debate on the use of public food procurement as a policy instrume...
Corvers Commercial & Legal Affairs and the Corvers Chair on Innovation Procurement at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, are proud to announce that our Position Paper on 'Opportunities to tackle COVID-19 and similar crises through Innovation Procurement' is now available!
Prof. Dr. Pedro José Bueso Guillén, Mr. Stephan Corvers, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Prof. Dr. Carmen de Guerrero Manso, Ms. Ana Lucia Jaramillo Villacís and Dr. Ana Isabel Peiró Baquedano offer a legal and economic perspectiv...
The Contract Notice ‘Results of the procurement procedure’ of the Call for tender of the SHUTTLE PCP project has been published in the European Tenders Electronic Daily (Document number: 2020/S 067-159980)
The SHUTTLE consortium is pleased to announce the awarding of the Framework Agreements and the contracts for the Phase 1 of the SHUTTLE PCP Tender.
The awarded tenderers that will implement Phase 1 – Solution Design are:
I know many of you are in the midst of Covid-19 crisis mode, doing your best in assuring city services and continuous supply of important products, especially for health care entities. We want to support that work by fostering the exchange between each other during a session focussed on procurement at the European Urban Resilience Forum, organised by ICLEI Europe, 27th May, online only.
We can explore questions such as:
- How has the Covid-19 crisis impacted your (sustainable) procurement...
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability Europe and Electronics Watch published “How to procure fair ICT hardware - Criteria set for socially responsible public procurement” as part of our work in the Europe-Aid funded project ‘Make ICT Fair’.
The criteria document aims to support experienced procurers in leveraging public purchases of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) hardware to positively impact working conditions across the electronics supply-chain. The criteria set covers...
is there anybody interested in the pilot of Upper Austria within the COSME-project "InnovationBroker"?
La Cátedra Corvers de Compra Pública de Innovación presenta el WEBINAR GRATUITO sobre Consultas del Mercado y Compra Pública de Innovación en crisis COVID-19.
Un webinar dirigido a compradores públicos y poderes adjudicadores españoles ofrecido a través de la Cátedra Corvers de Compra Pública de Innovación de la Universidad de Zaragoza.
09.30 CET 22.04.2020
El webinar estará disponible para un número limitado de asistentes, así que no lo dude más y regístrese ahora. El registro...
The COVID emergency has ignited many innovation driven procurements. The rule makers have actively encouraged the use of innovation focused tools. Can this unconstrained approach to innovation procurement be sustained post COVID? What policies and skills will boost innovation in the post COVID economy? How can places emerge from this crisis with deeply embedded innovative approaches? On May 12th you are invited to discuss your ideas and experiences with our expert panel from Connected Places Cat...
On behalf of the EU GPP helpdesk ICLEI Europe is organising a webinar to introduce the new EU GPP criteria for food, catering services and vending machines, on April 23 from 14:30 - 16:00.
Register here: https://iclei-events.webex.com/iclei-events/onstage/g.php?MTID=e59c82cffc0ae1f9ca07d2e0c36e866f0
Programme
The EC invites all interested market parties to participate in the open market consultation for its upcoming European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement. We are looking for novel blockchain solutions for the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure. The consultation offers a unique opportunity to provide feedback on the scope of the future PCP and to be involved in and co-create the future development of EU-wide blockchain solutions. Register for the open market consultation event on 27 Apr...
Dear Elsa,
TCO Certified is a sustainability certification for IT products. The strategy to reduce hazardous substances in certified IT products is to only accept substances tested and verified according to Clean Production Action GreenScreen® method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI9FyrZLAI
https://tcocertified.com/updates-and-changes/benchmarking-chemicals-with-greenscreen-in-tco-certified/
Substances accepted for use in certified products are listed on TCO Certified Acceptance...