Lipor is leading by example in the practice of SPP in Portugal. This includes using a verification scheme to raise supplier awareness of the importance of respecting social and environmental criteria. Find out more in their newly updated Procura+ web page here:
http://www.procuraplus.org/en/participants/portugal-lipor/
PCP call for tender to acquire services of industrial research and experimental development for a new system for minimizing the production, improve quality and promote the reuse of sludge treatment processes and treatment of urban waste water
TED Official Document Number 266318-2015
PCP call for tender to acquire services of industrial research and experimental development for a new device for locating water losses of pipelines, monitoring the state of the pipes and the geo-referenced survey of the pipelines in urban water distribution networks.
Feel free to join the European Commission’s interesting workshop on innovation procurement in transport. Access the following link for more information https://goo.gl/og17G0 Looking forward to seeing you there!
Innovation procurement in healthcare: the STOPandGO project
The STOPandGO project (www.stopandgoproject.eu) aims at defining and testing an European Specification Template (EST) to promote the acquisition of health and social services enhanced by digital technologies through the PPI (Public Procurement for Innovation) instrument. These services will allow the implementation of innovative models on Integrated Care for elderly people, in line with the objectives of the European Partnership...
Dear all,
ICLEI together with Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Metropolitan Area, and Barcelona Provincial Council are pleased to announce the 2015 Procura+ Seminar taking place on 11 November 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The full-day seminar is organised in cooperation with the GPP 2020 project consortium.
The 2015 Seminar will explore ’the challenges ahead - designing procurement for a low-carbon future’. The programme will be highly interactive and provide participants with the op...
Dear Marco,
Your request is still a few years too early. Electric buses are still pre-market and projects like ZeEUS is still testing out the buses for operability, energy comsumption, durability etc. In ZeEUS the one bus that has rolled the longest, is the one in Barcelona, which started in October last year. There is obviously not a full year of experience yet. This means that if you want to procure E-buses you will still be doing this on a project basis and will still receive the odd pr...
Hi Farid,
We developed criteria for tyres for Ihobe (Environment Managament Agency of the Basque Government) within the vehicles criteria: http://www.ihobe.eus/documentos/imagenpaginas/consumo/vehiculos/Criterios_Veh%C3%ADculos_Excelenciav2014.pdf
The criteria for Ihobe refer to: the energy efficiency of the tyres, the noise levels, that they are remanufactured and their lifespan in kilometres.
They are linked to the EU labeling regulation (Regulation 1222/2009 on the labelling of tyres...
Thanks for sharing - indeed a useful resource and nice approach how to show what is behind SPP. More information on the Catalan GPP 2020 activities can be found here http://www.gpp2020.eu/cat/ (ENglish: www.gpp2020.eu)
Hi Colin,
thank you very much for your kind reply.
Are you aware of any "Minimum Environmental Criteria" related to Municipal Waste Management Services adopted at national level within the EU ? e.g. Italy adopted his own MEC for MSWMS in 2014
http://www.minambiente.it/pagina/criteri-vigore (n°8 - Rifiuti Urbani)
Kind regards
Paolo Azzurro
The European Commission has identified Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) as key tools under Horizon 2000 to foster innovation of ICT based solutions in the EU. In order to stimulate innovation procurement the Commission is supporting public procurers through European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (eafip), a new initiative focusing on promotion, training and assistance in implementing innovation procurements for ICT based solutions...
Dear All,
Possibility for participation on the Ecovation conference in Graz with reimbursements!
As you may know under the Public Procurement of Innovation Platform project we are managing an Experience Exchange module. This is for procurers to travel to advanced organisations to gain a more in-depth understanding of innovative procurement processes. As well as developing skills on PPI and PCP by learning from others, participants can also experience new ways of thinking about problems and...
Today – PRO-LITE partner Bremen (Hanseatic city of Bremen) has published tender documents to procure an innovative lighting solution for Oberschule im Park school.
Lighting manufacturers and suppliers with an interest in providing an innovative solution must register first to download the German and/or English tender documents.
Hi Marlene,
Great to hear about the changes! One thing I have noticed is that I had to clear the cache in my browser to see the changes, it may be the same for others also.
Regards,
Antoinette
Two vacancies at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Geneva, Switzerland) for the SPP & Infrastructure Finance Program:
Good morning,
We are now more than 2000 members in this community and I have to say it is a pleasure to see it grow. Thanks to everyone who contributes to discussions and information sharing! You have made our little corner of the internet a welcoming and interesting place to be.
All the best,
Marlene
Dear All,
As you may know the 2014 Circular Economy package was withdrawn by the Commission and the updated version will be submitted by the end of this year. A public consultation on the topic was launched last week: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/consultations/closing_the_loop_en.htm
There are questions related to public procurement under the consumption and also under the enabling factors chapter. Take a look and share your opininon and ideas:)
Spanish Road Technology Platform organizes Innovacarretera2015 (Zaragoza 1st July) a forum devoted to innovation in the road sector. There will be an special session about the implementation of PPI.
Hi Bertrand, thanks for posting this, it looks like an amazing opportunity. For anyone who is considering applying, colleauges of mine have been on CISL courses in the past and they have been of the highest quality. Only a shame for me that it is focused on healthcare and not social care.
The second newsletter of The 10 YFP on SPP is now available and can be accessed here:
http://newsletter.sysforu.co.kr/2015/eco_spp/spp_vol02.html
The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) is a global platform that supports the implementation of SPP around the world. It has two main objectives: build the case for SPP, and support the implementation of SPP on the ground.
The 10 YFP on SPP Programme is open to all organizations and individual experts that are interested i...
Hi Goran,
Congratulations, this is very impressive work - we'd like to share it on the Sustainable Procurement Resource Centre next week as inspiration for others. I hope this is OK?
Thanks,
Caroline
On the 26th of March 2015, INSPIRE held it's 3rd workshop in Barcelona. The event was organized with the support of theEscola d'Adminsitracío Pública de Catalunya.
More information here: http://inspirecampus.eu/the-presentations-of-the-barcelona-workshop-are-now-available/
Regione Puglia, within the “Regional Smart Specialization and Social and Environmental Sustainability Support Programme” – named OPENLABS – announces an experimental preliminary market consultation phase of a pre‐commercial procurement for research and development services in accordance with Art.40 of the Directive 2014/24/EU (28th February 2014).
The consultation does not aim to award any contract.
TED reference 2015/Sb073-129151
Just a reminder that Transport for London (TfL) is holding a clean fleet on 30/04/2015. This will be a very interesting demonstration giving the opportunity for TfL to share with other public bodies what we are currently working on in respect of cleaner and developing technologies and vehicles throughout London. If you are interested in attending the event please respond to me. The agenda and details are attached. Regards Terry Davis
Here the direct link: http://www.irenemilia.it/appalti/singola.jsp?codx=752&codice=142&tipo=1