Telles.eu

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Yesterday I looked into the main text of the draft Council of Ministers Resolution introducing mandatory green public procurement in Portugal. Throughout the Annex we can see these popping up time and time again, both as award criteria and contract performance clauses/technical specifications.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. At the very least this particular draft resolution contains instructions binding to government departments as well as the wider public administration such as publicly owned companies for example.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 12, 2023

After parts I , II and III we finally reach part IV on the purchase or leasing of vehicles (contract type - 5) For these, the Annex establishes four different award criteria and two contract performance clauses/technical specifications, with issues to be found on both, mostly due to the non-technology neutral approach to the drafting.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. So what is a 'short supply chain'?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. The electric bus is assembled locally and made with materials that include recycled PET plastic.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Government procurement is estimated to be responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions , according to a report by Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum. The same study found that about 40% of all emissions related to government procurement could be mitigated for less than US$15 per ton of CO 2 emissions.

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