SCR Piemonte, invited by Envipark and ARPA Piemonte to take part in the interest group of INNOCAT project, launches a preliminary market consultation for future regional tender on catering service for hospitals. The first meeting with operators will be on 21 December 2016 in Torino.

Procurers from Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands took home the 2016 Procura+ Awards at a ceremony in Malmö (Sweden) last night. The awards recognise the most outstanding procurement activities carried out in Europe in three categories. The award ceremony was held as part of the Sustainable City Development conference, an international event exploring how cities can work towards implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The City of Copenhagen (Denmark) beat off compet...

Jornada de consulta al mercado: "Nuevas soluciones de ventanas para la rehabilitación energética de edificios"

Lugar: Edificio Plaza Bizkaia Eraikina

Dirección: Alda Urquijo/Urkixo zumarkalea, 36 - Bilbao

Fecha: 25/11/2016

Hora: 10:00 - 12:00

En el marco actual de apuesta por el impulso de la sostenibilidad y la innovación, el Gobierno Vasco prepara una licitación de Compra Pública de Tecnología Innovadora cuyo objeto es la sustitución de Carpinterías en el patio interior...

Hello,

I'm looking for information on some of the social value that's been delivered into local authorities by some of the big suppliers like capita, NSL and Agilisys.

Have found the following so far:

http://socialvaluecommissioning.org/2016/10/20/tower-hamlets-case-study/

http://durhamvoice.org.uk/documents/003_Oct_11/SOCIALVALUETaskforceUpdateReportOctober2015withadditionalVCScommentary.pdf

http://www.capita.com/responsibility/communities-and-clients/collaborating-with-clie...

Over the coming 10-15 years, the generation of vast amounts of data created by scientific research domains will create enormous challenges for capturing, managing, and processing of this data. Europe is well aware of this enormous challenge, and that is why the European Commission, in April this year, launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. The vision of the EOSC is to offer Europe’s 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual ...

Dear all,

For those interested in procuring bio-based products and services, you can already check InnProBio newsletter #3: http://innprobio.innovation-procurement.org/newsroom/newsletter/2016/november/

InnProBio, the Forum for Bio-Based Innovation in Public Procurement, aims to build a community of public procurement practitioners interested in Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) of Bio-Based Products and Services (BBPS).

If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, you can do...

The final newsletter of the INNOCAT project is now available online, sharing the latest news in the world of sustainable catering as well as the major outcomes of the project. These include tenders for more sustainable catering services in France and the UK, as well as two policies to ensure that future procurement carried out by the City of Turin and the regional environmental agency Arpa Piemonte will incorporate sustainability principles from the project.

The INNOCAT market engagement rep...

Yesterday, PROBIS final project meeting was held in Torino. A training webinar (in english) targeted to public procurers was registered and training material on project results was assessed and prepared for a wide dissemination.

The final Training Package will be made publicy available on the website and here on the procurement forum soon in the coming days.

For info: http://www.probisproject.eu/

Contact person: elena.deambrogio@comune.torino.it

Institutional needs on GPP and Good and bad practices

GreenS project has analyzed institutional needs and good and bad practices on GPP. In general, the results indicate that there is a lack of interconnections between the GPP policies and the actions performed at the national level, and the real practice and GPP employment among public sector officials responsible for procurement. It simply seems that despite all efforts to convey national GPP policy, information is not reaching the main tar...

We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Edition of the Procura+ Manual was launched at the Procura+ Seminar in Rome on 13 and 14 October 2016. This fully updated and revised edition of the Procura+ Manual provides clear, easy-to-understand guidance for any European public authority on how to implement sustainable procurement.

The Procura+ Manual includes:

• practical advice on how to integrate sustainability into procurement;
• a model for systematically implementing sustainable procure...

We zijn op zoek naar een enthousiaste inkoper voor een nieuw op te zetten besteldesk!

Voor meer informatie zie http://www.werkenbijsaxion.nl/vacature/medior-inkoper.html

The call for eafip Assistance for PCP projects will soon be closed!

Only 3 days left in the application process to receive free hands-on and tailored support in developing your own PCP!!Access the link for more information http://eafip.eu/assistance/

The RELIEF project kindly invite all interested ICT entities who has expertise in healthcare, digital care, patient empowerment and interoperability to attend one of the workshops organized in the Open Market Consultation framework.

These workshops represent an opportunity to:

• Present the PCP challenge and the common unmet needs identified.
• Meet the buyer’s group.
• Learn about the project and pre-commercial procurement processes.
• Take part of interesting discussion with relevant pa...

It is still possible to register to the PROBIS project final conference on Innovation Procurement in the Construction sector - from concept to practise.

The event takes please on the 16 November 2016, in Turin, Italy. During the conference, partners from the PROBIS project will present their pilot procurement procedures and will share their experiences in innovative procurement. The conference provides the possibility of further discussions on the development of future PPI initiatives in the...

14-15 December 2016, Brussels, Belgium

You are welcome to this conference if you are following one of these topics:

PCP, PPE, Innovation

Smart@fire is the European FP7 project that aims to develop a smart Personal Protective System for firefighters.

Every year, more than 100 firefighters lose their lives whilst saving others. To reduce the risks associated with firefighting, innovative ICT solutions need to be developed and integrated in a smart Personal Protective System. Ho...

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to the second EU GPP Helpdesk Webinar of the year, which will focus on the recently published GPP criteria for computers and monitors.

The webinar will take place next Monday 14 November, between 14:30 and 16:00 CET (Brussels time). It will serve to give an overview of the main relevant changes of the new revised GPP criteria and showcase an example of a real-life procurement that successfully integrated similar criteria. The webinar will include pre...

The Basque Government, in its commitment to use public procurement as an instrument to advance its environmental policies’ objectives has approved a new “Green Public Procurement Programme of the Basque Country 2020” (attached here in Spanish).

This second programme on this subject represents a qualitative improvement as it targets the whole public sector in the region (not only the central government as the previous plan) and foresees actions to institutionalise GPP and ensure the appropria...

Hi all!

I am looking for a good invoice consolidator, to manage the tail-end spend for a huge MNC company. The consolidator has to fulfill the following criteria:

1. Presence in Australia

2. Liaise with and pay suppliers directly

It would be great if you could recommend any invoice consolidators!

Thank you so much in advance!

On the 2nd November 2016, the awards ceremony for the successful bidders of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud tender is taking place in Lyon, France, at the CC-IN2P3 (CNRS) premises, one of the main academic data centres in France and a procurer of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud).

This €5.3 million joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender, led by CERN, will establish a European hybrid cloud platform that will support high-performance, data-intensive scientific use-cases...