The 2018 Summit of the Sustaniable Purchasing Leadership Council will take place May 14-16 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the US.

SPLC’s annual Summit brings together 400 purchasing and sustainability professionals, suppliers, and NGO experts from diverse sectors and regions to share and promote sustainable purchasing best practices for organizations. The Summit’s expert-led sessions, networking, tradeshow, and buyer-supplier matchmaking are open to both members and non-members.

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Interesting Podcast about Best Value Approach, Procurement Made Simple.

https://futureprocurement.net/podcast-060-best-value-approach-procurement/

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UPCOMING WEBINAR: The circular economy in cities and regions – 21st February 2018

The first webinar in a series running up to the ICLEI World Congress in June 2018 will investigate the role cities and regions can play in achieving the circular economy at the local level. It will include Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement and Procura+ Network participants Montreal, Oslo and Ghent, who use procurement strategies and ambitious targets to achieve circularity and a sustainable...

To all public procurers interested in energy retrofit of buildings, you can join our group on this platfom: MED PPI network https://procurement-forum.eu/group/1866048/med-ppi-network. It involves mainly players from the Mediterranean region but is open to all. This group aims at sharing best practices and feedback on the process of public procurement of innovation for energy efficient buildings. If you want to learn more or share your experience, join in!!

Also there is a dedicated webinar...

The City Council of València takes great pleasure in inviting you to the first Market Sounding for energy efficiency refurbishment of the Central Fire Station

The City Council of València, through the Fire Department Service and Las Naves Foundation, is launching its first public procurement procedure of innovation. A market sounding is the first step towards generating the technical dialogue stage amongst the economic and innovation operators who are interested in participating.

Dear Procurement Forum members,

This morning we have launched a new feature on the Procurement Forum which allows you to 'tag' other Forum members when making a post. This means you can bring posts to the attention of other members to whom they might be of interest, and to direct your questions and discussions to Forum members you know have expertise or an interest in the topic.

You can tag other members in your post by using the 'Tag members' button underneath the file attachment function, by...

Dear Procurement Forum members,

Please find at the link and attached a job opportunity at ICLEI's European Secretariat in Freiburg, Germany. ICLEI is looking for an Officer to work in their Sustainable Economy and Procurement team. The main focus of this position will address the topics of innovation and sustainable procurement through EU-funded projects.

http://iclei-europe.org/fileadmin/user_upload/SEP-officer.pdf

The working language is English, and the deadline for applications is 4 March 2...

The call for eafip Assistance is open for the final time! So don't miss out on the chance to be assisted (including legal assistance) in the development and implementation of your #innovation #procurement.

A Europe-wide network of procurement lawyers is available to provide the Assistance which is financed by the European Commission and comes at no charge to you.

The eafip initiative is already supporting eight public procurers from across the EU to develop their innovation proc...

Waste4Think project is pleased to invite you to the Demo Day that will be celebrated on 14th February 2018 in Halandri (Greece). You can find the programme here:

El Área de Energía del Consorci de la Ribera, junto con el Ayuntamiento de Alzira, preparan una Compra Pública de Tecnología Innovadora por importe de 200.000€ cuyo objeto consiste en la sustitución de 121,94 m2 de carpintería exterior de las fachadas de forma que se reduzca el consumo de energía y las emisiones de CO2 asociadas con el objetivo de conseguir un edificio de Energía casi Nula una vez se realice la rehabilitación energética del edificio ‘Magatzem de Cucó’ situado en...

The Energy Area of the Consorci de la Ribera, together with Alzira City Council and the Polytechnic University of Valencia organizes a market consultation session on March 8, 2018, in the City Hall of Alzira (Valencia, Spain) with the aim of facilitating an open dialogue and flow of information between the administration and the potential suppliers of innovative exterior carpentry solutions.

In the framework of the European project Prominent MED (Public purchase of Innovation...

On the 15th and 16th March 2018 ZENIT organises its 9th European Networking Event "Successfull R&I in Europe 2018" in Duesseldorf, close to the airport.

About 300 participants from more than 20 countries are expected to attend the event, which addresses universities, research institutes and enterprises and encourages them to become involved in established and new networks for Horizon 2020.

In Session 3 on Thursday, 15th March, there will be a workshop on Public Procurement of Innovation. W...

We remind you that our next Market Consultation meeting will be on January, 24th, 2018, in Germany at ZENIT Headquarters.

http://antisuperbugs.eu/index.php/2018/01/16/the-next-market-consultation-meeting-will-be-on-january-24th-2018-in-germany-at-zenit-headquarters/

Dear all,

The Commission has just published new voluntary EU GPP criteria for paints, varnishes and road markings. They cover both the purchase of products and of works in this area. The use of the draft criteria has the potential to considerably reduce environmental impacts from these products and their costs. Some of the most likely impacts of the application of the GPP criteria are expected to foster circular economy aspects and are the following: minimise the impact of production by add...

We would like to point out the EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award webinar, taking place the 24 January at 14:30 (CET), which will be guiding applicants through the award's application process.

The EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award was officially launched on December 7th and is an initiative of the European Commission, which the Directorate-General for Trade (DG Trade) launched as a commitment of its "Trade for all" communication on trade and investment policy, published in 2015...

Cherished Procurement Forum community, I hope you have been enjoying delightful and delicious holidays! More reading suggestions for the holidays. EPPPL 4/2017 is out. Contributing authors include Raquel Carvalho, Javier Miranzo Díaz, Johan Wolswinkel, Dacian Dragos, Bianca Racolta, Manuel Zimmermann, LL. M., Andrew Chew, Rommel Harding-Farrenberg, Jennifer Gamble, Robert Krč, Peter Hettich and Laura Zürcher.

Lexxion Publisher: https://epppl.lexxion.eu/current_issue/EPPPL?_locale=en
LinkedI...

EU Survey questionnaire to inform the 'Preparatory study for Ecodesign, Energy Label, EU Ecolabel and Green Public Procurement (GPP) for solar photovoltaic modules, inverters and systems' deadline 19/01/18

You are invited to share with us your experience and knowledge via a questionnaire published on EU Survey and which you can be access here:

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/PV_questionnaire

The closing date for completion of the questionnaire is Friday 19th January 2018, 00:00 C...

This particular time of the year can bring phones and technology at the centre of attention and, while you are taking your Christmas family picture and using your latest tablet for finding your last-minute Christmas recipe, you might find asking yourself “Where does my device really come from?”.

Make ICT Fair aims at addressing this question and at improving the lives of workers and those impacted along different stages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain throug...

We would like to share with you the December edition of the EU GPP News Alert.

The issue opens with the Green Deals initiative on Circular Procurement, which was recently launched in Flanders (Belgium). 101 procurers are already on board to test out new approaches to procurement!

The BuyZET project approach for uncovering the most emission intensive procurement categories from transport activities in three big cities – Rotterdam, Copenhagen and Oslo – is what Dr Nina Nesterova, o...

The importance of circular procurement in delivering circular economy benefits has been highlighted by a recommendations report from REBus, published today.

Between 2000 and 2016, resource efficiency in the EU grew by 41%. Whilst this is encouraging, the growing economic and environmental case for improving resource efficiency means action must accelerate. Leading by example in harnessing the power of public procurement across Europe is vital in building momentum. This is particularly the cas...