In this item you will find the agenda and meeting minutes of the the 8th Community Leaders Coordination meeting.

The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) team organised its first in-person annual conference on 24 April. The event offered a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge, forging connections, exchanging insights, and weaving the fabric of collaboration among public buyers on innovative and sustainable procurement. With participation from all 10 communities of practice that are part of the BBWT project, the discussions covered three key themes: green/digital, social, and health procurement.

Acces the presentations given during the session on Facilitating the access of startups and SMEs to the public procurement market that took place as part of the conference on innovation procurement hosted by the Belgian Presidency

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

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.