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GPP Issue no. 68 February 2017
News Alert
The Basque Government has published its “Green Public Procurement Programme of the Basque Country 2020”. Its second GPP Programme expands the scope of the targets from central government to the whole public sector in the region, promotes actions to establish GPP as a standard practice and ensure effective engagement with the market.
The voluntary Programme sets two types of objectives to be achieved by all public administrations:
1. Process objectives, for the integration
of GPP in authorities’ procedures and procurement tools
2. Results objectives, based on actual greening of public tenders for more than 20 priority groups
The Programme is organised in five strategic areas: tools and resources for GPP implementation; integration in procurement processes, procedures and tools; awareness raising and capacity building; coordination with the market; and communication, dissemination and networking. A first meeting has already been held with the three Basque regions and capitals to encourage commitment and define collaborative work strategies. The inter-agency committee is coordinated by Ihobe, who support the Basque Government in developing its GPP and wider sustainability policies.
The programme is available in English, Spanish, and Basque.
Basque Government adopts its new GPP Programme
Could you tell us about the PRO-LITE project and some of its achievements?The PRO-LITE project was co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by TfL, starting in January 2013. The project has successfully demonstrated how public sector organisations across Europe can overcome public procurement and other barriers to deliver innovative and cost-effective technologies for their organisations. The
project focused primarily on purchasing innovative lighting technologies which offer improved social, environmental and economic benefits; however the methodology is now being applied to purchase a range of technologies for TfL.
Four PRO-LITE partners based across three European Member States (namely, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany) aimed to purchase innovative lighting solutions (or put in place frameworks contracts for lighting) for a range of applications.
The process was started after we jointly published a Market Sounding Prospectus to present our common requirements to the lighting market, and our plans to undertake procurement actions.
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Lighting up London’s underground transport network using the PRO-LITE approach
An updated Technical Report has been made available by the Joint Research Centre with new criteria proposals. Criteria for food, catering services and vending machines have been considered.
Stakeholders are invited to comment the report via the online platform BATIS (registration is required). The deadline for submitting comments is 24 March 2017.
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Zoom in on… Open stakeholders’ consultation on EU GPP criteria for food and catering services
Zoom in on… Revision of the Clean Vehicles Directive open for consultation The European Commission is carrying out a public consultation as part of an Impact Assessment process for a possible revision of the Directive 2009/33/EC. The Directive aims to better support achieving EU policy objectives on climate change and air pollution and to stimulate the market for clean vehicles.All citizens and organisations, particularly public authorities, are welcome to participate and submit an online questionnaire before 24 March 2017.
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Dr. Leon Smith is Project Director for the Procurement of Lighting Innovation and Technology in Europe (PRO-LITE) project, and led Transport for London’s (TfL) innovative procurement of lighting services for the
London Underground. TfL is a local government body responsible for the transport services across Greater London, United Kingdom.
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GPP Issue no. 68 I February 2017News Alert
The City of Rotterdam Lighting Plan, in place since 2012, accommodates the three specific policy ambitions of the municipal government: better design-quality to improve public space; more efficient maintenance through standardisation in lighting equipment and poles; and reduction of energy levels and light pollution by applying technological innovations which contribute to sustainability.
A call for tenders was published in 2012 for the purchase of standard lighting fixtures for the whole city for the period 2013 to 2020. The form of the tender was an e-auction in three lots, with one framework agreement for each lot.
After the registration and evaluation of the delivered documents and samples, six suppliers were admitted to the e-auction. As a result, the prices of the LED fixtures were almost the same as previously paid for conventional light fittings, with the advantage of providing optimum performance in the field of lighting, energy consumption and social return.
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GPP examples
Zoom in on... Textiles collection procurement guide
To read more GPP examples, visit the European Commission’s GPP website.Previous issues of the GPP News Alert are available here.
The City of Lens made the choice in 2008 to deliver 20% of organic food in school canteens, a target set under the “Grenelle environment” national initiative.
A call for tenders was launched in 2016, which built on the experience of two similar past procurements on catering services (from 2008, and from 2014). Based on the lessons learned from the previous procedure, this procedure included more detailed GPP criteria and it introduced different variations for the meals to be provided. In addition, the contracting authority put more emphasis on consultation with the market at the pre-procurement stage.
Four bids were received and all of them passed to the evaluation stage. Organic menus proposed by the winning bidder were priced at €2.75 per meal; a reasonably small cost premium compared to the non-organic menu priced at €2.33. Moreover, the success of this procurement contributed to the decision of the contractor to apply ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard in its own central kitchen premises.
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Purchasing energy efficient street lighting in Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
An introductory training session to Green Public Procurement (GPP) took place on 26 January in Szentendre (Hungary) as part of the capacity building activities of the European NGO network on GPP.
Participating NGOs had the chance to learn about the legal framework, the main sources of information and to get to know like-minded organisations.
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Zoom in on… European NGO network- Introductory training session in Budapest
The GPP News Alert is an initiative of the European Commission, Directorate-General Environment published on a monthly basis.Editor: EU GPP Helpdesk Email: [email protected] The articles published in the GPP News Alert represent the personal views of the contributors and do not necessary reflect those of the European Commission, nor any person acting on its behalf.
Procurement of catering services and organic food for school canteens in Lens (France)
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As part of its Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, WRAP launched a new guide on Textiles Collection Procurement in December 2016. The guide aims to support local authorities and textile collectors to introduce and operate effective collection arrangements, including re-use and recycling. A number of case studies are featured, which show procurement arrangements along the whole lifecycle of the purchasing process.
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