- co-funded under the 3 new PPI projectsCall Supporting Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions: Networking And Financing Procurement (ENT/CIP/11/C/N02C011) - with 1 or more partner from Torino, will be presented tomorrow at the press conference "Public Procurement of Innovation in Torino".
The 3 projects deal with PPI in 3 relevant challenges: Energy efficiency, Sustainable mobility and healthcare and namely:
-) City of Torino Procuring Lighting Innovation and Te...
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Dear Procurement Forum,
I would like to present the HAPPI (Healthy Ageing in Public Procurement of Innovation) project. This project, supported by the European Commission Directorate General Enterprise, brings together a consortium of ten partners from five Member States to establish the conditions for health institutions throughout Europe to collaborate in the purchase of ageing well and health innovative products, services and solutions.
As one of the key tasks of the proje...
Time: November 7th-8th 2012 (1st day is policy-oriented, 2nd day focuses on practical experiences and cases)
Place: Hilton Helsinki Strand (John Stenbergin ranta 4, Helsinki)
Recommended hotels: Hilton Helsinki Strand, Sokos Hotel Helsinki, Radisson Blu Plaza, Scandic Grand MarinaHelsinki conference on demand-driven innovation and public pro...
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Case C-368/10 Commission v Netherlands
May 201214
Abby Semple , LL.B.
1. Introduction
On 10 May the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in a case brought by the Commission against the Netherlands relating to the procurement of coffee machines and ingredients. The ECJ found that the province of North Holland had violated the Public Se...
and Thursday, 19 April at 13:00 GMT. Please see following link: Thursday, 12 April at 18:00 GMT The webinars are on
http://engage.ase.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=0&em_id=4404.0
The Irish building council is organising a sustainable building conference on April 25th 2012 in Dublin. See
http://www.betterbuilding.ie/index.php
. One of the sessions is on Green Public Procurement. The Irish Government has just published its action plan on Green public procurement.
Because of the dutch experiences on GPP in buildinsg I have been invited to present their experiences in green public procurement in buildings,...
Join us at EcoProcura 2012 New opportunities to deliver sustainable procurement and innovation Malmö (Sweden) on 19-21 September 2012
The enormous potential of public procurement is continuously gaining recognition as a new policy tool to support the shift towards a resource-efficient and socially responsible society. EcoProcura 2012 will look at the arguments surrounding this discussion and examine solut...
Hi Simon, I think the distinction is supposed to be between social aspects of the production process, which could only be addressed in award criteria and contract performance clauses, and social characteristics of the end-product, which could also be technical specifications. But it is not clear on what basis this distinction is being made, because it only applies to social criteria and not environmental. Article 40 states that technical specifications may address any stage of the life-cyc...