GPP Webinar - Mainstreaming a Profession : The Professionalisation of Public Procurement

This paper aims to stimulate dialogue and to provide public procurement policy makers, buyers, and contract managers with an introduction to some human rights risks and considerations when procuring digital technology to deliver essential public services.

All presentations, the recording and additional material from the webinar are available here.

The Dutch national knowledge platform, Ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl, is now available in English. You can visit it at https://ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl/en/. This knowledge platform contains relevant information on circular procurement and best practices from the Netherlands.

What will the legal landscape of public procurement in the European Union look like in the future? Will mandatory green and social procurement become the standard? And if so, what to think of it and how to ensure effective regulation that works in practice?

Find out more on the Study of the European Parliament on the Social Impact of Public Procurement

Discover the Public Buyers Community’s main objectives and the platform’s sections in this infographic.

Find here all information on the new proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating late payment in commercial transactions (“Late Payment Regulation”).

This Report presents the main findings of the review of the functioning of the Concession Directive to the European Parliament and to the Council.

Find the answers to the procedural, jurisdictional and other practical questions on the implementation of the FSR in relation to public procurement.

Discover the potential of EPREL (European Product Registry for Energy Labelling) - an invaluable for public procurement. Explore its vast database of over 1.5 million registered models, allowing buyers to effortlessly search, select and sort products based on specific parameters, enabling accurate assessment of the most populated energy efficiency classes and informing optimal minimum requirements.

The overview presents findings on the use of Innovation Partnerships (IPs) in public procurement and highlights the uptake of IP in the EU and EEA.

In this webinar, experts analysed the current use of social considerations in tenders, the most used types of social clauses and explained during which stage of the procurement cycle such criteria are applied.

With support of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, VNG, VNO-NCW and the Dutch Competence Centre on procurement PIANOo Expertisecentrum Aanbesteden, this book has been published open access, meaning that the digital version of the book can be read free of charge.