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

Telles.eu

I will be doing the post on vehicles sometime later this week Contract type 15 - food products, catering and automated vending For food procurement, the text of the Resolution and contract type 15 include a reference to the need to have 'short supply chains'. So what is a 'short supply chain'?

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

NHS and Healthcare Procurement NHS Supply Chain NHS Supply Chain manages procurement on behalf of NHS trusts and hospitals. Best Practices for Tendering Supplier’s main priorities should be to understand award criteria such as Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) and to prove social value.

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

This includes buying office supplies, building roads or hiring services. It is all a part of supply chain management, making sure the right products and services get to the right place at the right time. Contract Award Criteria The contract award criteria are the factors that decide which bid wins.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

Award criteria could generate (further) incentives for regulatory performance, perhaps beyond the minimum mandatory baseline. Relatedly, the difficulties in using award criteria to pursue regulatory goals stem from difficulties in the operationalisation of qualitative criteria in practice.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

If we want to tackle climate change, and if we want to have greener, cleaner, and more resilient supply chains, governments will need to buy things in a fundamentally different way. At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier.

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Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

How to Crack a Nut

While there can be contractual constraints on the use of information and data generated under a given contract, it is much more challenging to assess whether information and data has been inappropriately used at a different link of increasingly complex digital supply chains.

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