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Sustainable procurement or green procurement is a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, therefore benefiting societies and the environment across time and geographies. [1]
Green public procurement (GPP) occurs when governments obtain goods, works, and services that are sustainable and environmentally friendly. [62] Rules encourage the public sector to purchase green products and supplies, such as energy efficient computers, recycled paper, green cleaning services, electric vehicles, and renewable energy.
The full title of Target 12.7 is: "Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities." [1] It has one indicator: Indicator 12.7.1 is the "Degree of sustainable public procurement policies and action plan implementation". [1] Three objectives, SPP, GPP and SRPP, all figure in the ...
The activities of public procurement and innovation intersect in three specific areas: public procurement for innovation, public procurement of innovation, and innovative public procurement. [25] First, multiple studies have established that public procurement for innovation is a viable and efficient tool to stimulate innovation as a demand ...
The Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) has been developed by the European Union to facilitate the processing of invitation to tender published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) by means of a single classification system to describe the subject matter of public contracts.
Circular procurement is an approach to government procurement that enables private and public authorities to support a transition to a circular economy.This is done by purchasing works, goods, or services designed to create closed energy and material loops within supply chains while minimizing, or avoiding, the generation of waste and other negative factors on the environment.
Sustainable procurement or green procurement is a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, therefore benefiting societies and the environment across time and geographies. [39]
The basis of European procurement regulation lies in the provisions of the European Union treaties which prohibit barriers to intra-Union trade, provide the freedom to provide services and the right to establishment (three of the "Four Freedoms"), prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin and regulate public undertakings and public monopolies. [3]