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Projects (9)

  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Technical Support Instrument

Enhancing transparency and integrity in the public procurement system through an integrated risk management system

Public procurement plays a crucial strategic role in a country's economy and in delivering quality services to its citizens. However, it is also susceptible to risks of fraud and corruption due to the significant financial flows involved. In 2022, public procurement in Greece represented approximately 12% of the country's GDP and accounted for 23% of total government expenditures. The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated the risk of integrity violations and increased incidents of fraud and corruption, particularly within the realm of public procurement. Greece's ranking on the Corruption Perceptions Index for 2022 was 51st out of 180 countries, indicating a need for improvement. Additionally, a significant majority of respondents (98%) in the 2022 Special Eurobarometer believed that corruption was widespread in Greece, well above the EU average of 68%. The National Strategy for Public Procurement (NSPP) 2021-2025 includes a comprehensive set of actions to promote transparency through specified auditing procedures in public procurement and achieve a high level of professionalization. DG REFORM, through the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), will support the Greek National Transparency Authority (NTA) in achieving strategic priorities of NSPP 2021-2025, namely establishing an integrated risk management framework, strengthening audits and fostering integrity in PP practitioners. The project will be provided by OECD and its key outputs will be:

  • A Risk management framework for public procurement and practical tools for its successful implementation;
  • A Risk-based methodology for auditing in public procurement supported by training materials and workshops;
  • A Code of Conduct/deontology to enhance integrity amongst public procurement practitioners;
  • Specialised integrity training and training materials for public procurement practitioners.

Lead Beneficiary: National Transparency Authority (NTA). Contractor: OECD  European Commission: DG REFORM.B2

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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

LIFE Innovative Green Public Procurement for Sustainable and Future-proof Artificial Turf Pitches

As sports fields take up a lot of space in cities, they could play an important role in making the city more sustainable. At the moment, current artificial grass pitches adversely affect the climate. Together with market parties we want to bring about a change! We are looking for innovative solutions and developments that are applicable to various situations and to multiple artificial grass pitches. Our goal: sustainable artificial grass pitches made of circular materials, that contribute to an improved water balance, a better approach to heat stress and a general positive contribution to the energy issue. The cities of Amsterdam and Haarlem are working together to apply this project on a large scale eventually. This is why we named the project: Scale up Future-proof sports fields. We are a project supported by EU-funding through the LIFE - programme, or project is registered here

Our ambitions:

  • Fully circular sports fields,
  • Smarter and more efficient construction processes,
  • Climate adaptation: sport fields that prevent heat stress and smart use of rain water,
  • Sports fields generating energy that is used for the club house and/or the surrounding area,
  • Solutions that contribute to multiple ambitions are preferred
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  • Mélissa CAMPAGNO
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

PROTECT PCP Preparation project

PROTECT aims at levering innovation procurement to unlock the climate service (CS) market’s potential to support urgent climate adaptation and mitigation. The project will allow public and private organisations to build up and integrate their knowledge and skills about climate change, environmental observation (EO) and innovation procurement, notably enabling public authorities to shift to a proactive governance model, using innovative public procurement approaches to increase value and climate impact for money. It shall increase access of CS SME providers across Europe to public procurement markets and shape solutions that best address public demand, both specific and systemic. The initial focus will be on five encompassing application domains (Energy & Utilities, Sustainable Urban Communities, Agriculture, Forestry and other Land use, Marine and Coastal Environments and Civil Security and Protection) and their contributions to the areas of sustainability in Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6. The project will source and assess existing and high-potential CS solutions and technologies that use EO data. It will engage with an extensive and varied community of procurers, inform the definition and aggregation of their needs and functional requirements for CS, explaining, fostering, and supporting a ‘buying with impact’ approach. Clearer, less fragmented demand shall guide and support R&D for future CS. PROTECT will prepare the operational ground for one or more joint, cross border or coordinated pre-commercial procurement (PCP) processes and identify short-term actions so that Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) can be activated towards or right after the project’s end. At the policy level, it will provide decision-makers for procurement, climate, and policy, at EU, national, regional and local levels, with practical recommendations and guidelines to boost the use of innovation procurement for climate action.

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  • Georg Vogt
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

CircularPSP - Innovation Procurement for Circular Cities

In CircularPSP leading circular cities are to procure innovative solutions to overcome organisational, informational and operational barriers of municipalities to transition towards a Circular Economy. The project will contribute to this public buyers community on three levels:

  • Experience into organisation and implementation of joint innovation procurement 
  • Access to solutions helping cities to avoid procurement where possible and prepare circular procurements
  • Application of the Procurement Clauses of AI (light version) developed by the community 
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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Single Market Programme

The BRINC European Hub for PPI in the circular economy

The project aims to facilitate the identification of public innovation needs, conduct market consultations to identify market capabilities and potential solutions, and help public buyers tap into the innovative capacity of SMEs. The project will enhance the capacity of Public Authorities to engage in cross-border PPI for circular solutions and establish a focal point for engagement between Europe’s leading innovation ecosystems and ambitious public authorities interested in leveraging cross- border PPI to accelerate the circular economy.

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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Single Market Programme

P5 Innobroker

P5 Innobroker stands for “Public Private Partnership for Public Procurement" of Innovation within the Innobroker Model. It expresses the goal to further develop, accelerate, deploy, validate and demonstrate a self-sustainable EU-wide B2G Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) brokerage service ecosystem-based business model and platform (Innobroker) for mobilizing and bringing together early adopter public buyers and leading-edge EU SMEs and start-ups as well as to pave the way for the implementation of an effective, collaborative/coordinated set of transnational SMEs/start-up-oriented PPI bids through a Public-Private Partnership PPI Facilitator Business Model (P5 Innovation Procurement broker).

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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

ProCirc

ProCirc is set up to experiment, implement and learn how circular economy and procurement can benefit the region. To fully benefit from circular opportunities and to contribute to the international development of circular economy, ProCirc conducts and supports 30 pilots to demonstrate procurement opportunities. Each pilot aims to reduce 20-25% raw materials, waste and CO2 emissions. Insights and tools regarding specific sectors like construction, furniture and ICT will be disseminated in the North Sea region by creating an active transnational network on the topic.

Impact

Procuring organisations can stimulate circular economy using their demand to change markets. This will not only have a direct impact on the business models; innovation and economic opportunities that suppliers will create, but also on decreasing carbon emissions and the use of resources and closing product and material loops.

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  • Miguel Gonçalves
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

Innobuyer

InnoBuyer is a project that aims to become a testing ground and benchmark towards the implementation of a demand-driven methodology that brings together public and private organisations (Challengers) and innovative companies (Solvers) to jointly co-create innovative solutions, and speed-up the process leading to a concrete innovation procurement. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement 101071212.

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  • Martin Seidel
  • EU funding Programme: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

GPP-STREAM

Green Public Procurement and Sustainability Tools for Resource Efficiency Mainstreaming 

GPP-Stream is based on the idea that interregional cooperation can help to mainstream GPP policies within the participating administrations and ensure that resource efficiency measures are disseminated and their benefits recognised.

Aim & Organisation

The project aimed to improve the management, implementation and monitoring of policy instruments integrating GPP approaches to ensure that resource efficiency gains can be maximised and that resource efficiency objectives are institutionalised through GPP.

The project was coordinated by Region Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) and was implemented in partnership with 8 Bulgarian, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian bodies that have complementary environmental and GPP expertise.

Results and Outcomes

5 transnational learning events, at least 300 stakeholders involved, 13 GPP webinars, 5 GPP toolkits and one online platform, 8 policy instruments from 5 EU countries will integrate GPP approaches, 40 EU policy instrument managing authorities apply GPP-STREAM toolkits. Examples of outputs are GPP Monitoring Guidelines and the FVG GPP Action Plan: Governance and Monitoring Aspects.

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