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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

In a nutshell, the government will ban significant parts of the food distribution network within the EU from participating in food procurement in Portugal and thus tilt the market in favour of suppliers and distributors closer to the customer.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The report suggests that these high rates of failure could be due to the fact that procuring entities could automatically revert to the single-source method without analyzing the reasons for such failure (a loophole closed by a legal amendment in 2018), as well as minimal use of non-price award criteria and the lack of life-cycle costing.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

These policies can also provide greater resilience to the economy and address the distributional impacts of the transition, safeguarding the sustainability of public finances and avoiding the emergence of stranded assets.

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