Dear members of the Procurement Forum,
A quick reminder for those interested. At ICLEI's offices there are a lot of exciting projects coming up this year and we are looking for two new members to join our Sustainable Economy and Procurement team here in Freiburg (Germany). Applications are open until this Thursday (15 Jan).
For more information visit: http://www.iclei-europe.org/fileadmin/templates/iclei-europe/Job_postings/2014/2014_Sustainable_Economy_and_Procurement_Officer_2.pdf or fe...
Congratulations all :)
When and what type of market involvement is needed in the public procurement? Involvement of the market in public procurement is seen as an important method to increase value for taxpayers money. Market involvement could be benefitional over the entire lifecycle of a work, product or a service (policy development, need assessment, functional design, technical design, operation and maintenance, end of life). However, the assessment of when and how to involve the market, for what type of challenge...
All over Europe cities and towns strive to become climate smart. They revamp their energy districts, step-by-step, while looking across borders to learn from best practices.
Cities have started to join forces to become more energy efficient. This trends stems from the findings of the first climate assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 1990, which was quite alarming. It led to the creation of Energy Cities, the European association of local aut...
Here is a presentation about the policy framework for public procurement of innovation we use at Rijkswaterstaat in the Netherlands.
http://www.slideshare.net/ArendNagel/20141126-public-procurement-policy-framework-ext
The policy framework for public procurement of innovation can be downloaded from: http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/en/images/Factsheet%20Policy%20Framework%20-%20Public%20Procurement%20of%20Innovation_tcm224-368853.pdf
have a look! http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/ftags/innov_proc.html#c,topics=flags/s/InnovationProcurement/1/1&+callStatus/asc
Dear all,
We are happy to share with you the first edition of the bi-annual e-newsletter of the PRIMES project.
The project aim is to develop basic skills and provide hands-on support for public purchasing organizations in order to overcome barriers and implement Green Public Purchasing. This will support a consequent energy and CO2 reduction.
Anyone who is interested in following this project can sign-up to the newsletter on the primes website to keep up to date with the project dev...
Dear all,
I would like to share a successful EV project from the city region of Rotterdam. This project is a good example of a successful way to raise EV awareness in municipalities and therefore it could be interesting for your city/region as well.
In 2014 the city region of Rotterdam started with an EV-road show for council members, policy officers and fleet managers. For a period of 1-2 weeks they got the opportunity to test-drive with several types of EVs such as a Nissan LEAF, Renault...
Hi everyone!
We asked back in November, who would be interested being featured in our GPP Newsalert Christmas Food and Catering special and we were delighted to get so many positive responses!
The newsalert was published today and includes 4 examples, including the 100th ever GPP Example! Two examples relate to sustainable food and catering procurements carried out by the cities of Barcelona and Copenhagen, and 2 demonstrate how the cities of Torino and Helsinki measured the carbon footpri...
Retrofitting a district is quite different from retrofitting a single building: the technological challenges involved are far greater.
The Cuarto de Marzo district of Valladolid, Spain, is an area spreading over 21,000 square metres with 166 residences. It is now the focus of a retrofitting project, called R2CITIES, funded by the EU. Its objective: a 60% reduction in energy consumption in individual buildings and in the district as a whole. One of the project partners is a company c...
A residential energy-saving retrofitting program adopts strategies to convince local inhabitants of its benefits.
One of the biggest challenges of retrofitting projects is to make them attractive to residents. Now, one of them, the EU-funded project R2CITIES, is analysing the initial first feedback received from residents of the Cuatro de Marzo district. And there is a lot at stakes. Being successful will help to replicate and extend these solutions elsewhere. “[our showcase site] is a mir...
Dear Valentina,
these sound like quite interesting results. Maybe you would like to join the Sustainable Construction Interest Group to discuss your project in more detail?
https://procurement-forum.eu/group/77852/sustainable-construction-interest-group
Best wishes,
Marlene
Monitoring so-called key performance indicators enables engineers to evaluate whether a newly erect building is as energy efficient as originally planned.
Making buildings more energy efficient is part of the European strategy to combat climate change. One of the aims of the EU-funded project Direction—due to be completed by 2016—is to demonstrate that very low energy buildings can actually be implemented in practice. But to evaluate whether a building achieves the required energy perfor...
Dear Procurement Forum members,
A while ago you received an email with a survey about our Procurement Forum.
Thanks to the many members who have already taken the time let us know what they like about the Forum and what could be improved.
For those who haven't yet, you still have a chance!
http://surveys.verticalresponse.com/a/show/1527725/668582aa2d/0
The survey will remain open until 19 December and it takes no more than 10 minutes to fill out. Promise!
I am looking foward to yo...
Die Vorträge zur Wirkungsanalyse, zur Nutzungsdauer von Produkten und zu EU-Rahmenbedingungen und die Ergebnisse der Diskussionen an den Thementischen liefern jede Menge Anregungen, wie die Beschaffung nachhaltiger werden kann. Ausgearbeitet wurden auch konkrete Fragestellungen für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Einen Klick wert: http://www.sppl.at!
The presentations on the impact analysis, useful life of products and EU framework as well as the results of the discussions on the topic tables...
Dear Henrik, I think you maybe wanted to post this into our Dutch speaking group on public procurement? https://procurement-forum.eu/group/77889/inkoop-innovatie-urgent
In any case, I am sure this is information could also be interesting for all European procurers. Why don't you just add a couple of lines in English? You can edit your post by clicking on it and then clicking the drop down arrow at the top right.
Best wishes,
Marlene
Good morning Olinga, this sounds like an interesting topic to have a group discussion on.
So in order to set up a group, just click on the 'Groups' tab at the top of the page, then click the orange button 'Create Group +' then give it a title, next briefly describe which aspects of social value you would like to discuss, then add the e-mail addresses of people you know would be interested in this topic, and finally select 'open' to allow others to join the group without screening. You could t...
Find out how organisations across Europe are cooperating on GPP. This short webinar will present the preliminary results of the study 'GPP Networking Needs' conducted on behalf of the European Commission.
Options for how future support at EU level may be targeted will be discussed - including the specific GPP activities which could be supported and the role of existing networks.Confirmed speakers include coordinators of existing networks (ICLEI, RGO, REC) and the Commission.
If you would l...
Hi Eva Buchinger, thank you for sharing the Austrian experience on the PPPI Action Plan.
Really interesting paper on which I totally agree. Having worked on the design and implementation of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) policies I firmly think that you have touched many of the most critical points when it comes to boost effectively this type of smart procurement.
At IDOM, we work closely with public procurement agencies and public procurers to leverage the results of their procu...
Dear all,
regarding to our implementation of Directive 2009/33/EC we have some doubts:
1) For buses we didn't find on EURO VI Regulation any limits for NMHC (diesel engine), but we found THC limits. For Light Vehicles we didn't find on EURO V- EURO VI Regulation any limits for NMHC (diesel engine) and any limits for THC. Why this difference between light and heavy vehicles?
2) Can we conclude that diesel engine haven't NMHC emissions? But we found positive correlation (scientific eviden...
GPP in the Health Care Sector is the topic of the EU GPP Helpdesk’s upcoming webinar. The event will take place on December 2, between 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (Berlin time) and will consist of a series of presentations from GPP experts from around Europe.
The webinar will look at how GPP policies can be translated into effective initiatives and processes within different tiers of public authorities. It will also provide examples of procedures which aid the implementation of GPP within an organisatio...
Dear All,
We are looking for public authorities and companies who are interested in following the activities of the PROBIS project, and potentially participating directly in some project activities all along the procurement lifecycle (from need analysis refinement to the procurement). PROBIS aims to use public procurement of innovation (PPI) in the building sector, with a focus on energy refurbishment of existing buildings to make construction in Europe more innovative and sustainable.
F...
[Apologies for cross posting. Just want to make sure everyone gets the word!]
As many of you know, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council is a multi-sector, multi-stakeholder and multi-regional initiative that started across the pond in the US in 2013 with the goal of creating a shared program for guiding, benchmarking and recognizing leadership in sustainable purchasing. We believe the strategic approach we are supporting organizations to implement is applicable in a wide variety of...
Very usefull book that I can recommend to anyone in the field of public procurement and innovation.