
CONSIP, Italy’s national central purchasing body recently launched a pilot initiative, is introducing gender pay equality scoring in competitive tendering.
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The Social Procurement CoP seeks to promote labour rights in public construction and services contracts, encouraging the fulfilment of labour rights in the supply chain.

CONSIP, Italy’s national central purchasing body recently launched a pilot initiative, is introducing gender pay equality scoring in competitive tendering.

The City of Oslo sees public procurement as one of its key tools for driving social and sustainable change and has developed a model for integrating human rights into tenders and contracts.

How can the cooperation between enterprises, businesses and public buyers be improved? That’s a key question for public authorities seeking to incorporate social responsibility in their tenders.

In June, the Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) project organised the third meeting of its Community of Practice on Social Procurement.

The Big Buyers Working Together project launched in January its Community of Practice on Social procurement. This group will focus on using their purchasing power to contribute to social policy goals.