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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. The reformers share their top tips on implementing green procurement here.

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Sustainable and Circular Procurement Practices in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

The Act requires that all public entities consider the social value and impact of procurement decisions, and comply with the Government Buying Standards. In most instances, buyers and sellers are required to report project sustainability during procurement.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Moreover, such market partitioning would raise entry barriers for entities new to bidding for public contracts, as well as facilitate the emergence of anticompetitive and collusive practices in the more concentrated and partly isolated from potential competition ‘public markets’ ( Sanchez-Graells [2015] ) in ways that general legislation would not.