The workshop on “Public entities reducing lock-in: the way forward (open procurement standards)”, Brussels, July 7th, is organized as part of the project “Best practices for ICT procurement based on standards in order to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in – SMART 2013/0048”. The project falls within the standards-based ICT procurement EC policy area, as a way to contribute to the implementation of Action 23 of the Digital Agenda and the Communication COM (2013) 455 “Against lock-in: bu...
The Public Procurement of Innovation Platform consortium has today announced the nominations for the Public Procurement of Innovation Award , which rewards the very best innovation procurement in Europe. The Award recognises successful public procurement practices that have been used to purchase innovative, effective and efficient products or services. The nominees reflect the geographic diversity of entrants, with Spanish, Dutch, French, Norwegian and Austrian contracting authorities repres...
Hi Luca, this seems like a great event. We have had very positive experiences with market dialogue in other innovation procurement projects.
I will let the private sector partners of the iNSPiRe project (www.inspirefp7.eu) know about this.
The EU GPP Helpdesk’s upcoming webinar will look at the environmental and economic benefits of innovative demand management in public procurement.
The event will take place on Tuesday July 1, between 14:30 - 16:00 CEST (Berlin time) and will consist of a series of presentations from GPP experts from around Europe. The webinar will look at how focusing on the planning phase of the procurement process i.e. the “defining need” stage, can be the key to sustainable public procurement.
New ways of a...
Dear all,
GPP 2020 invites you to join our webinar on “Procurement of low-carbon information and communication technologies (ICT)" that will take time on Wednesday, 9 July 2014,14:00 – 15:30 European Summer Time (Berlin, GMT+02:00).
Agenda:
City of Torino: Innovative solutions for lighting in school buildings – Technical Seminar
Registration is now open for interested enterprises/innovators to take part in a technical seminar organised by the City of Torino (as part of the PRO-LITE project)
As part of the European PRO-LITE project, the City of Torino – in collaboration with Turin’s Order of Architects – is hosting a technical seminars to help inform the co-develop innovative and integrated lighting soluti...
The first INNOCAT - Procurement of Eco-innovative Catering tender for the procurement of energy efficient, low carbon Vending Machines was launched in March of this year. The procurement, which is being lead by the University of Sheffield, aims to increase energy efficiency and reduce the carbon emissions that arise from vending operations.
The University of Sheffield is the lead buyer of a Buyers Group which currently consists of 10 universities from the UK and Ireland and aims to set...
Hi Kjersti!
Many thanks for this link! There appear to be many interesting PPI projects ongoing in Norway!
Hi Hannes,
Two initiatives which might be of interest for you, in the UK and US:
https://sunlightfoundation.com/issues/procurement-government/
The second organisation has also collaborated with the Open Contracting initiative on some international work (http://www.open-contracting.org/))
Best regards,
Abby
The HAPPI project is of utmost importance in the context of the European-level cooperation in the field of public procurement. It is a pioneering project, as only in the new European directive on public procurement, adopted in February, is explicitly provided the possibility on cross-border procurement and the use of central purchasing bodies established in other Member States. Moreover, everybody knows the importance of the active and healthy ageing in these years, which is a challenge that all...
Many thanks for sharing this report Mark! It raises some very interesting points and includes many good practice examples.
Thanks for posting this, Bertrand. Anne has invited me to speak at this conference about the Procurement of Innovation Platform and Procurement Forum so I will see you at this event.
Mark
The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council released a set of principles that define leadership in sustainable purchasing. By providing a common reference point for sustainability excellence, the Principles enable greater alignment and benchmarking of sustainable purchasing efforts across all types of organizations operating in the multi-trillion dollar institutional purchasing marketplace. The Principles will serve as a “moral compass” for the Council as it launches the development of a m...
The Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, the largest company that deals with applied research in Hungary, is interested in participating as a partner to the ’Innovative, Sustainable and Inclusive Bioeconomy’ call (H2020-ISIB-2014-2015). For further details and references please contact eszter.lakos@bayzoltan.hu
The company's general profile is available at: www.bayzoltan.hu
The City of Torino openly invite the lighting market to suggest solutions that will meet the needs of 3 schools - to be renovated as part of the PRO-LITE project (as highlighted in the PRO-LITE Market Sounding Prospectus).
PRO-LITE aims to exemplify how public sector organisations can overcome organisational and procurement barriers to deliver innovative and cost-effective technologies for their organisations, and at the same time support economic growth.
Through the PRO-LITE p...
Hello EU friends,
Please join us for this special webinar. I regret that the time of day is not ideal for EU viewers. However, if you register you will receive a full recording of the webinar shortly after the broadcast.
- Sam Hummel
SPLC Director of Outreach
NEW PRINCIPLES FOR LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING TO BE UNVEILED DURING WEBINAR
During a webinar at 1pm ET on May 7th, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council will unveil a set of principles that define leaders...
Did you miss the deadline for the EcoProcura 2014 Call for Contributions last week?!
Not to worry, you have a second chance:
The timeline for submitting contributions has been extended! Submit your proposal(s) by downloading the submission form on the conference website and sending the completed form to ecoprocura2014@iclei.org by Friday 9 May 2014.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-commercial/innovation-portal?intcmp=4627
TfL has very recently re-developed its website. Please find the new link above. I would be interested in hearing about similar initiatives to engage contractors/innovators etc.
Dear Aure,
Thank you very much for your comments. I'd love to learn more about the resolution approved by the Catalan Government. I've send you a request to contact via Linkedin.
I'm writting this paper for the OECD. Next year the OECD will publish a report on how public policy can support job creation through self-employment and business start-up. My paper will be one of the inputs for the chapter on policies related to the support of inclusive entrepreneurship through procurement, from...
Recognizing it would be a long trip for many of you, I want to invite you all to attend the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council. While SPLC is a young organization that has emerged primarily out of sustainable purchasing intiatives in the US institutional purchasing marketplace, we seek to learn from and coordinate with sustainable purchasing initiatives globally. We are partners of UNEP SPPI (now 10YFP SPP) and have submitted a liaison application for ISO/PC 227...
An extended version of the INNOVATION SEEDS portal has recently been launched which is useful for procurement professionals and policy makers. The portal builds upon the success of the previous INNOVATION SEEDS portal, which was launched in 2011, and provides practical information on eco-innovation from across a variety of sectors.
The enlarged database provides additional up-to-date information on eco-innovation, expands the categories and adds articles on eco-innovation policies and netw...
Invitation to attend EU GPP criteria stakeholder meetings:
Office IT Equipment (12th-13th May) and Furniture (15th May),
BrusselsTwo important meetings will take place in Brussels in May at which we are looking for input from stakeholders with procurement experience of these two product groups. The European Commission will present proposals for revision of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for discussion with stakeholders.
Register for free and make your input to the criter...
I would be interested to know if the 'innovation partnerships' have been defined more clearly. I think this is something a lot of people are interested in because it could potentially be useful for PCPs or PPI.
Every year the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) publishes the Annual Statistics Report (ASR) on UN procurement, which totals €11 billion. As an accompanying document, UNOPS also publishes a thematic supplement that showcases articles about public procurement from experts around the world. Themes in past years have included sustainability, transparency and promoting the millennium development goals. To get an idea of what our team has previously done, you can visit https://www....
Great stuff, thanks very much for this information!