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The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) team is organising its first in-person Annual Event 2024. Let's strengthen the bonds of our innovation procurement community across the EU. Mark your calendar!
The Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional deal on the regulation prohibiting in the EU market products made with forced labour.
To all interested potential service providers, please be aware of the Prior Information Notice for the upcoming Innovation Procurement Hub tender it contains important information
Learn about the session on Facilitating the access of startups and SMEs to the public procurement market that will take place as part of the conference on innovation procurement hosted by the Belgian Presidency
European Commission launches first investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
What lies ahead for sustainable public procurement in the European Union? Will the law move from possibilities to mandatory sustainability requirements? How is this development taking shape in light of the EU Green Deal? How to asses it and what to think of it?
SILO, in collaboration with Escuela21, has been awarded a contract to provide strategic procurement trainings for public buyers and decision makers.
The workshop on the use of public procurement as a strategic lever for innovative and sustainable public policy development in Italy took place on 18 January 2024 in Rome, hosted by the National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC).
Learn more about the key outcomes of the European Commission's 5th Co-creation session for the PPDS, held on 14 December 2023.
Public buyers increasingly see the potential of procurement to contribute to social policy goals and use the purchasing of goods, works and services to ensure positive social outcomes. As a result, for the first time, the Big Buyers Initiative will have a community of practice on socially responsibl
Explore the significant impact of the FSR, notification requirements for high-value public procurements, and the roles of economic operators and authorities in this regulatory environment.
Join the inaugural online presentation of the SPIN4EIC – Strategic Innovation Procurement Programme on 22 February, 10:00-12:00 CET.
11 Community members from 8 different countries will be onboarded to collaborate on challenges related to the public procurement of vehicles used for the delivery of environment
Registration for the 2024 Procura+ Conference is now open. Secure your place by filling in this form! The Conference is a great opportunity for cities and public authorities to gain a better understanding of how public procurement can be used to implement step changes that can make a big impact.
Download the Making Socially Responsible Public Procurement Work: 71 Good Practice Cases in your language!
Find more out on Commission's project to support European SMEs to participate in public procurement outside the EU
Read about the ECA findings on public procurement in the EU.
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