Public procurement

What about purchasers, both individuals and the ones involved in public procurement, who still mention in invitations for tenders and contracts that the snppliers, inclnding laboratories, shonld be certified against ISO 9001 ... 

COM (2008) 400 final Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European economic and social committee and the committee of the regions. Public procurement for a better environment... 

The Marrakech process is a global process to support regional and national initiatives to promote the shift towards Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) patterns. In the European Union, the Marrakech process is leading the development of an EU SCP Action Plan that entails amongst other things the Integrated Product Policy (IPP) and Green Public Procurement (GPP). 

The two key pillars in the context of SCP Action Plan in Europe are the Green Public Procurement (GPP) and the Integrated Product Policy (IPP). One of the main pillars of European SCP Policy is GPP, which means that public purchasers take account of environmental factors when buying products or services. ... 

Pictet, J. and Bollinger, D., 2008. Extended use of the cards procedure as a simple eheitation technique for MAVT. Application to public procurement in Switzerland. European Journal of Operational Research 185(3), 1300-1307. 

Tarantini M, Loprieno AD, Porta PL. A life cycle approach to Green Public Procurement of building materials and elements a case study on windows. Energy 2011 36 (5) 2473-2482. 

CIPS/NIGP. Partnership for procurement. Principles and practices of public procurement. http /Avww.globalpublicprocurement.org/ Resources/Procurement-practices/... 

European Commission. Public procurement, http //ec.europa.eu/ intemal market/publicprocurement/index en.htm... 

Emergence-. In addition to the role of the legislator and the employer, public policy may also take on the responsibility of the client in the case of public procurement. Public procurement is often a highly regulated process with a number of preconditions and some of these are clearly CSR issues, which need to be taken into account. In fact, CSR may also often be defined in the legislation. The problems for international companies may be that there are different types of the legislation in several countries which aU need to be included in the company s CSR policy. 

As an example, life cycle thinking and assessment stand at the heart of a growing number of policies and instruments in areas such as Integrated Product Policy, the Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy Action Plan, Green Public Procurement, and the European Union (EU) Ecolabel and Ecodesign [3]. 

The aim of the LMI is, therefore, to promote and stimulate innovation by strengthening the demand base, which in turn should enable enterprises to gain a better return on their innovation efforts. The added value of the LMI lies in the development of a prospective, concerted and tailored approach to regulatory and other policy instruments. LMI in fact includes demand-side measures on the one hand, and supply-side measures on the other. On the demand side, the policy tools used are regulation, public procurement, standardisation, labelling and certification, and complementary instruments. On the supply side, measures mainly include research and development (R D) funding, financial support and fiscal incentives [7]. 

Encourage Green Public Procurement for biobased products... 

Establish a network between public purchasers of biobased products to apply the EC guide on public procurement for innovation, to identify good practices in the field of biobased products and promote their application across the EU... 

The pharmaceutical sector is a typical example of the distinctiveness of sectoral institutions that shape technological learning and competition. Medicines are usually strictly regulated for their efficacy and safety by government agencies in a way that is unusual in other industries. The structure of demand is also distinctive because of the important role played by the state through the public procurement of essential medicines for the health system and, especially in low-income countries, the... 

Additional practical changes that would shift the balance back towards local production include effective implementation by TFDA of their formal commitment to fast tracking of tests and registrations for local products (which may require additional TFDA resources). Providing trade credit for local suppliers to public procurement, as well as to overseas importers, would also rebalance the incentive structure, as would more timely funding by the Ministry of Finance for procurement by MSD of locally contracted supplies. 

The prices listed in Table 5.3 represent SMM s factory gate selling prices for public procurement a comparison with the Management Science for Health international median reference prices for procurement is... 

Like other countries discussed in this book, Ghana also offers a 15% price preference for domestic suppliers in public procurement. This has also helped manufacturers, though the system has not always functioned properly. Local manufacturers complain that the procurement system is not very transparent, and especially when the government buys at regional and local levels there is suspicion that the 15% advantage is often not provided. The government does not reveal the prices at which it actually procures. Perhaps if such information is made public the situation will improve. 

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