published by DG Enterprise & Industry). Feasibility Study One of the stated objectives of the reform of the EU Procurement Directives is to promote innovation. The purchase of innovative goods and services by public authorities is frequently cited as a means of improving Europe’s economic competitiveness while helping to solve social and environmental problems or deliver public services in new, more efficient ways. Funding and research have gone into the...
Many public authorities who wish to include environmental and social requirements in their tenders will do so by referring to labels. A broad range of such labels exist, and an ISO classification distinguishes between the different types. Labels which enjoy widespread recognition include PEFC and FSC (for paper and wood products), Energy Star and TCO (for IT equipment) and the EU Ecolabel, Nordic Swan and Blue Angel (covering a wide range of products and services)....
Dear all Today the European Commission published the following EU GPP criteria sets: - Indoor lighting (new)- Office IT equipment (update)- Transport (update)- Electricity (update)- Cleaning products and services (update)- Textiles (update)- Gardening products and services (update)- Hard-floor coverings (update)- Street lighting and traffic signals (update) They can be found here at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/eu_gpp_criteria_en.htm Kind regardsMark
Hallo, Abby, Thanks for your respond! As I am working mainly in the field of social fair trade in the past years my "every-day" problem was the legally required extent of connection between product and technical specification or award criteria and circumstances in the production process. This was seen very critical till now as you know. Now its the first time that the directive mentions - besides ecological - social circumstances in the production process in the context of technical specific...
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Thanks for the enthousiastic reactions. It's good to expand the network, we already added some procurement organizations, involved in innovation procurement. But it's important to have a good overview of public procurement authorities. If you have any information on new procurement public authorities, please send it to us to include in our mailing list. In regard to the recent call of DG Enterprise http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/newsbytheme.cfm?lang=en&displayType=fo&tpa_id=135 n...
Dear Ulla! I can only support the points you raised. For AUT the new aim would mean, that we would have to at least double our annual work schedule for renovation. How this could be financed remains a mystery. Furthermore we have a lot of old public buildings (dating back 100 to 300 years, some even older). How we should deal with them in the context of the proposal remains in the dark. In our official response to the Comm services we raised the points so we will see what their ideas/solutions...
Dear all
As you may be aware on 27 January 2011 the European Commission published a “Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy”:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/modernising_rules/consultations/index_en.htm
The Green Paper launches a wide public debate on the revision of the European rules on public procurement to better meet the needs of public purchase...
the 1st issue of our newsletter concerning public procurement and innovation. This newsletter - dedicated to public buyers - has been launched in the framework of the PRISME project, a specific action financed under the CIP programme (Competitiveness and innovation programme) within the Enterprise Europe Network. A focus has been given on the Lead Market Initiative. the Prisme website You can download from
Public procurement of innovation has been identified as a policy priority both at EU level and by many national, regional and local governments. Supporting the ability of contracting authorities to procure innovative goods and services has benefits in terms of:
· - addressing major societal challenges, such as climate change, aging and health, better education and social inclusion;
- helpi...
Yes the proposal only sets out explicit rules for social award criteria - for technical specifications we are left with the general entitlement to refer to production processes and methods provided these are non-discriminatory etc. There are two indications that this could include social aspects of production: - Page 10 of the explanatory memorandum states that all factors directly linked to the production process may be included in technical specifications, provided these relate to the goods o...