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Big Buyers Initiative
Join up your needs with other public authorities to send more powerful signals to the market. You will also be able to take part in tailored tr...
The Spanish PROMINENT MED team had the challenge of refurbishing an old storage building in Alzira, València in an energy efficient manner to serve as a key infrastructure for the young people. The lessons learnt during the implementation of the project have served the Spanish team to replicate the procedures in another municipality of the Valencian region: Sueca. It has been cofinanced by the Valencian Agency of Innovation through the project BUILDING CPI. The objective of the project is to im...
Next Wednesday, 5 June the last of the series of Open Market Consultation events will take place in Geneva, at CERN. The event will be the last opportunity to meet the ARCHIVER's Buyers Group (CERN, DESY, EMBL-EBI, PIC) and discuss the project’s R&D challenges before the publicatio of the tender to procure hybrid end-to-end archival and preservation services (find out more about the tender here https://www.archiver-project.eu/tender-preparation).
What: ARCHIVER Open Market Consultation C...
The Valencian Innovation Agency (Agència Valenciana de la Innovació) has produced a guide to promote public procurement of innovation (PPI) among local authorities from Valencia region. "The practical guide of the process of public procurement of innovation for public organizations of the Valencian Community" aims is to assist Valencian public bodies to initiate PPI procedures to promote innovation activities at industrial level. Consorci de la Ribera participated in the elaboration of this gu...
The PROMINENT MED Consortium met in Alzira (Spain) in February 2019, and prepared a workshop to show potential stakeholders the benefits of the Public Procurement of Innovation. For this reason, one of the invited key actors in the region was the INNPULSO NETWORK, Spanish Network of Cities for the Science and Innovation. They stressed key aspects like:
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A new Innovation Procurement Platform has been launched, providing public procurers and policy-makers with a go-to spot for all the latest news and resources on innovation procurement.
Public procurement accounts for about 14% of the European Union's (EU) gross domestic product - meaning it has enormous potential to guide new developments in a range of sectors to address key societal challenges. It also benefits public sector customers directly through improved services at optimised costs.
...We are pleased to announce that remembering the World Environment Day, the Public Procurement Authority of Hungary organizes an international conference titled “Challenges in Sustainable Public Procurements” on 5-6 June 2019 in Budapest.
Considering the importance of international knowledge sharing, the representatives of the V4 countries, as well as international public procurement experts, acknowledged university professors, and chief officials of the European Commission are invited to the...
De afdeling Inkoop en Facilitair van de Haagse Hogeschool breidt uit en zoekt
De functies zijn eenvoudig in te zien op www.aanbestedingsmakelaar.nl . Mocht je geinteresseerd zijn in een kennismakingsgesprek, laat me weten. Ik trakteer je graag op een haagsch bak koffie incl. h-hopje!
Groet
Marc J. Brugman
Manager Inkoop & Facilities ai
06-34...
The UrbanWINS team has now released its final toolkit A guide on urban metabolism and participatory processes for more efficient urban waste policies, that can inspire urban waste agents – from decision makers to waste companies – to improve the sustainability of cities by interpreting waste issues and policies in an innovative way.
It might be of interest to you as the document includes a corpus of 70 best practices - covering different waste streams – that can be relevant for cities;...
TOOP project will hold a workshop dedicated to the 'once-only' principle (OOP) in the eProcurement area on 22nd May 2019 in Brussels. It follows right after the Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group on eProcurement (EXEP) meeting on 20-21 May. Participation & registration are free of charge. More information:
http://toop.eu/node/331
The LEA project is currently inviting procurers to join the LEA-Network - a critical mass of procurers of education, committed to collaborating on joint actions to accelerate the procurement of learntech in European schools.
LEA-N is a key opportunity for procurers interested in being involved in future innovation procurement and common demand funding applications.
In addition, LEA-N members will have access to capacity building seminars, and an opportunity to contribute to the development...
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that registration to the Innovation procurement policy workshop and roundtables is now open. The event will take place at Zagreb Innovation Centre (ZICER) on 5th of June as part of PPI2Innovate (Prominent MED) programme is now open.
Check the programme and register to join workshops and roundtables organized by Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments (HAMAG BICRO) and Regional Energy Agency North (REA North) within program Prominent MED...
As known, public procurement is undergoing major changes, being more optimized and become more oriented on goals.
This is the main reason why PJR consulting and partners are organising International Public Procurement Conference, that is one of the biggest Croatian annual event in the field of public procurement.
During the two-day Conference procurers, policy makers, businesses, researchers and international organisations in Opatija will have a chance to hear and to discuss the latest d...
Dear Partners,
The final transnational conference of the PPI2Innovate project in Székesfehérvár (Hotel Magyar Király) held on the 14th of May will be an opportunity to learn more about the use of public procurement of innovation (PPI). As PPI is a new term in many Central European countries, lecturers aim to show PPI is an essential tool to boost local innovation and provider of better local services.
Two speakers are arriving from Croatia to PPI2Innovate Days, to present practical exp...
We are pleased to announce that City of Koprivnica and REA North, Croatian partners in Prominent MED project, have successfully completed procurement procedure carried out as part of Public Procurement of Innovation. The tender for Extensive Energy Refurbishment of Prefabricated Building of The Kindergarten Loptica was launched on 31st January 2019. Selected procurement procedure was Competitive Procedure with Negotiation. After completing all the formalities within the procedure, on 24th A...
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During 2018 important progress has been achieved in the implementation of the Basque Country GPP Programme 2020.
So far 30 public entities, covering all types of authorities, have joined the Programme. About one third are Basque Government public companies, another third local public companies and the rest local and regional entities (municipalities, counties…). 77% of those authorities shared their annual GPP plans for 2018, which included not only priority product groups to procure with e...
Beste collega's,
Al enige tijd probeer ik met Becton Dickinson tot overeenstemming te komen aangaande onze laatste versie van de NFU inkoopvoorwaarden (2016). o.a. op het gebied van toekomsitge mogelijke prijsafwijkingen (art.5.1), afleveringstijdstippen- en termijnen (art. 6.3.), maar ook kwesties zoals eigendomsovergang en risico, aansprakelijkheid etc etc.
Ondanks het feit, dat er aan beide zijden inmiddels enige water bij de wijn gedaan is, komen we met hen tot op heden op verschillend...
To whom it may concern,
This questionnaire is designed to inform the development of a Guidance Document for the EU GPP criteria for Textile Products and Services. The current EU GPP criteria for Textile Products and Services are available here:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/criteria/textiles_2017.pdf
The overall aim of this questionnaire is to:
• Learn from your experience with the implementation of the existing EU GPP Criteria for Textile Products and Services.
• Identify to w...
Dear Members,
Let me recommend the final transnational conference of the PPI2Innovate project (MAY 14, 2019)
This conference is a free capacity building event to boost usage of PPI in Central Europe, which will be held on the 14th of May in Hotel Magyar Király in Székesfehérvár.
The conf...
Beste Joost,
Zie AW 2012 paragraaf 2.2.1.7. artikelen 2.32 t/m 2.37. Het is aan te raden een stand-still termijn van 20 kalenderdagen na publicatie van de opdracht tot gunning te hanteren alvorens de overeenkomst af te sluiten.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olger Zegers
azM
Hi Simon,
We have some contracts in which bike couriers are used for deliveries in the bigger cities, but that's usually as a result of the award criteria. We haven't used contract performance clauses for this.
We've also seen that there was only one bigger company offering these services in a lot of cities. That was Bubble post. They were bought by BPost and remodeled to only deliver food, and now seem to have dissappeared entirely. Finding a good alternative delivering in so many cities,...