With over 140 participants from more than 20 countries, the final ‘LANDMARK Conference – Moving Towards Socially Responsible Public Procurement’ was a real success. The conference stimulated active dialogue among the participants from all different societal domains (academia, public procurers, NGOs as well as suppliers) and revealed the major outcomes of the three year project collaboration. In several presentations and workshops the participants addressed pressing issues surrounding the t...
Have you sent in your proposal for the EcoProcura 2014 Call for Contributions ?!
The Market Lounge call for proposals is open for one more month only, until 24 April 2014. Table hosts will have the chance to showcase their SPP, PPI, PCP work, network, and benefit from in-depth discussions in small groups. The call is open to the following types of organisations:
• Local, national and regional governments
• Public authorities such as universities, hospitals, schools, emergency servic...
Yes Gloucestershire managed to save around 20,000 pounds in the end I believe - and they timed it in March to coincide with the last finanical month of the year (in the UK).
I think the trick was that beforehand, they asked everyone to hand in spare stationery items as part of a Council-wide "amnesty" and stored them in a central cupboard. Then during the month's ban, people could visit the cupboard for emergency supplies. In the end the spend didn't spike the followig month as was feared, so...
Dear all
The City of Paris is interested in the Horizon 2020 call SCC4-14: Establishing networks of public procurers in local administrations on smart city solutions. They are looking to join a consortium as a partner. Attached is a description of their consortium search.
These networks should aim at public procurement bodies in order to establish "buyers' groups" for innovative smart city solutions that improve the potential impact of the investment for cities and their citizens, and im...
Only six weeks to go before the EcoProcura 2014 Call for Contributions deadline - 24 April!
Don't miss your chance to share your SPP, PPI, PCP experience at EcoProcura Market Lounge, where you can showcase your work, network, and benefit from in-depth discussions by hosting a table!
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For "Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research", edited by Max Rolfstam, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark
Published by Routledge in association with ICCR Foundation
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 April 2014
Outline
Public procurement used to achieve some kind of innovation viewed as a research topic is a scattered but still an emerging one. Due to its multidisciplinary nature several parallel publishing venues have emerged, and there is very...
Healthcare organizations across the world are quickly reorganizing and pooling their procurement power.
In many countries, the procurement function has reached sufficient maturity to take the hospital/supplier relationship to the next level. Hospital purchasers now expect suppliers to work together with them to promote change in the healthcare system.
Organised by the IHF (International Hospital Federation), this conference will enable participants to discuss their needs, projects, ex...
Apply early - the Call for Contributions for the EcoProcura Market Lounge is now open! The Market Lounge will allow participants to showcase their work, network, and benefit from in-depth discussions in small groups.
All Procurement Forum members are invited to apply, in order to share: good practice examples on sustainable public procurement (green and social), procurement of innovation and pre-commercial procurement; sharing ideas on upcoming tenders; initiatives, projects, guidance, and...
ICLEI is pleased to announce that registration is now open for EcoProcura 2014 in Ghent, Belgium. The EcoProcura conference series equips participants with information on implementing sustainable public procurement and procurement of innovation. Our specific theme this year: sustainability, innovation and cost efficiency: taking procurement forward.
The EcoProcura programme overview is now online, with an interesting line-up of plenary sessions, parallel sessions, market lounge and soci...
Hi Alis, Aure is right. If you speak to your IT department (or equivalent) to request the latest version of flash you should be able to access the modules without any issues. Do let me know if your still experiencing issues as I can always e-mail them to you directly, although the file size is quite large.
Thank you
Hi Mark, Yes there will be specific webinars on policy development in area such as Environmental Sustinability and Equality and Diversity. I am also drafting webinars on co-production in procurement and outcomes based specifications for a particular procurement. They will be ready in April/May. David
We would like to obtain your view on the procurement for Cleaning Services & Products and for that purpose we prepared a first questionaire (on scope definition). The questionaire is ready available on the weblink:
http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cleaning%20services/stakeholders.html
For more information on the revision process, consult our wepage:
http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cleaning%20services/index.html
Hello everybody,
Please find attached a short questionnaire (9 questions) in which we ask procurers to share their experience with the use of environmental criteria in the green public procurement (GPP) of furniture products. If you are interested, please also feel free to join our group "EU GPP criteria revision for furniture".
The deadline for sending questionnaires back is the 4th March 2014.
The INNOCAT - Procurement of Eco-innovative Catering project is currently setting up a project Interest Group to follow our activities, and perhaps get involved more directly. If your organisation is interested in sustainable catering procurement then please let us know!
What is INNOCAT about?
INNOCAT is a European collaboration of public and private buyers who wish to procure eco-innovative catering products, services or solutions. The project aims to launch at least four tenders over t...
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is revising the Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for Cleaning Services & Products on behalf of DG Environment. The revision process started early 2014.
Should you wish to register as a stakeholder and be informed about the progress, please send us a brief response to the following addresses and provide us with your views by responding to the questionnaire(s) we will send you, depending on your area(s) of interest:
Cleaning Servic...
Procurers from across Europe are invited to apply for the PPI Platform Experience Exchange, which helps procurers 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 will also experience new ways of thinking about problems and solutions. Additionally, participants will get the chance to see PPI and PCP in action through field visits.
Currently three advance...
Dear Innovation Procurement Expert,
Would you like to help to peer-review proposals submitted to the European Commission for funding under the Horizon 2020 Programme? We are getting ready to evaluate submissions to the first Environment Call for Proposals under the Horizon 2020. We are contacting people who might wish to help us in the topic WASTE-5-2014:
“Preparing and promoting innovation procurement for resource efficiency”
(please cf. page 14 in the Work Programme document : h...
Dear Procurement Forum members,
I would like to ask all of you from various EU countries what financial instruments do you have to promote PPI? I need information on both procurement of innovative solutions and pre-commercial procurement. What about the EU structural funds for PPI, do you have information about measures to promote PPI?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards
Vaida Juneviciene
We are happy to announce that the registration for the final LANDMARK conference on 27 March 2014 is now open!
In cooperation with the ICLEI European Secretariat, the Network of Development Politics of Bremen (BeN), the Fair Cotton Procurement Project and the LANDMARK project, the Senator of Finances (Bremen) is generously hosting the final LANDMARK Conference on 27th March 2014. The event will also include the Fair Cotton Procurement Awards. The LANDMARK conference addresses the challenges o...
Our new website is on-line: www.fair-procurement.org. You can now register for the conference on socially responsible procurement of computer hardware (from 20th Feb 12:00 to 21st Feb 15:00 at Schwerin castle, Germany). We expect experts from
China Labor Watch – regularly publishes studies on working conditions in China
CREDDHO – Research Centre for Environment, Democracy and Human Rights, DR Congo
Dataport – Central IT procurement body for Northwest Germany
Electronics Watch – NGO allia...
Thank you John. It clarifies whole lot of things.
Regards,
Sanjay
Dear Procurement Forum,
The Commission has published new EU GPP Criteria for Imaging Equipment. The criteria have been developed for voluntary use by all public authorities interested in improving the environmental and economic performance of the printers, copy machines and multi-functional devices they are using.
The guidance is currently only available in English. Translations into all EU languages will be available shortly, as well as the accompanying Technical Background Report.
Bes...
Yes we might be interested in taking part in this call - depending on options for cofinancing. Would you already have more information on your ideas? We are looking into aspects like using a competitative dialogue, and in the content looking at aspects as including recycling or reuse options. For partners I would suggest including partners involved in waste management and partners in procurement.
Cuno van Geet, cuno.van.geet@rws.nl, +31.622451717
The Senator for Finances of the State of Bremen (Germany) will host the final LANDMARK Conference on 27 March 2014. The conference will address challenges surrounding verifying social responsibility, particularly in light of the recently adopted EU Procurement Directives, which strengthen the use of social criteria in public tenders. Participation is free of charge, but registration is necessary to ensure a place.
Places will be allocated on a 'first come first serve' basis and registration...
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