Circular Public Procurement in the Nordic Countries
This study formulated four approaches to circular procurement, including the procurement of better quality products in circular terms, the procurement of new circular products, the use of business concepts that support the circular economy, and investments in circular ecosystems.
Public Procurement for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: Enabling reform through evidence and peer reviews
The OECD guidance aims to support governments in reforming their public procurement systems to ensure long-term sustainable and inclusive growth. The guidance includes suggestions and indications for reforming procurement to achieve savings and sustainable development and lessons learned from previous OECD Public Procurement Reviews.
Following the Government's Intelligent Public Procurement Strategy, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has developed a number of tools that make it possible in the bid phase to calculate what the total cost of a product will be throughout its use phase. The TCO tools have been developed for 13 product areas (in Danish).
Harnessing Procurement to Deliver Circular Economy Benefits
This report draws on results from the European LIFE+ REBus project to outline guidance and recommendations on circular procurement. The project aims to reduce product consumption by demonstrating the commercial case for European businesses to change their business models.
The Clean Fleets Life Cycle Cost Calculator is an easy to use tool to allow a comparison on the life cycle costs (LCC)/total costs of ownership (TCO) of different vehicles and bids within a procurement process.
This guide is intended for procurement staff and gives specific pointers to set you on the right path to introduce circular procurement in your organisation. This instrument took shape in the summer of 2013 and has been further supplemented since then.
Public procurement for the purchase of local agricultural products - Region of Vendée
This guide aims to help the public procurer carry out a local and sustainable procurement of food. It suggests a few procurement steps and mentions for each step the legislative framework, European and national.
Purchasers Guide for Addressing Labor and Human Rights Impacts in IT Procurements
This guide aims to provide institutional purchasers with guidance to assist them in procuring IT products from companies that are improving the social responsibility of their supply chains.
This guide is particularly intended to assist contracting entities and to describe the benefits of socially responsible public procurement and to give practical tips on how to take into account social considerations. The guide also wants to serve as a practical tool for public servants and employees in charge of tendering processes in their concrete examples.
English
Europe/EU, International
Social responsibility
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland