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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

First, they need to help drive large-scale and unprecedented changes in the energy, construction, industry, transportation, agriculture, and other sectors. Fortunately, progress has been made in the region and countries are in a position to develop diagnoses, tools, and institutional capacities to promote green procurement.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter. To do this properly, then the shed should be assessed via the award criteria. Also, there are a lot more assumptions to be made here than in my original post.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In this post as part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement , we’ll outline our approach and lessons learned. But the EU’s procurement notices use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), not these product groups, so we had to match the product groups to CPV codes (see our spreadsheet ).