Supporting Sustainable Procurement In ICT
One of the key challenges of sustainably procuring ICT lies in the lack of transparency in supply chains. To overcome this challenge, an open dialogue has to be established with suppliers, forging a relationship to encourage and promote sharing and monitoring of supply-chain activities.
In relation to the environmental challenges of the ICT sector, procurement approaches ...
Why Is Sustainable Procurement Important For The ICT Sector?
The extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, and disposal of ICT products is associated with a number of environmental, social, and economic externalities.
The extraction and disposal of minerals used in the ICT sector are associated with material toxicity and resource depletion. It is estimated that, although e-waste generated in the ICT sector accounts for only ...
Shifts Towards Sustainable Sourcing
A while ago, we shared an article on findings by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum that showed procurement is responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions, globally. Their study reported that governments spend $11trillion(USD) annually-or 15% of global GDP, on procurement every year. Our own prior study, tracked the value of global procurement at ...
Supporting Sustainable Procurement In The Construction Industry
Construction projects are usually long and complex, involving the participation of different stakeholders throughout the different project stages. There are certain factors that are key to determine the sustainability of a project, and the monitoring of these factors necessarily entails the collection of relevant data variables throughout the procurement process.
Here, we introduce certain procurement approaches and ...
Why Is Open SPP Important In The Construction Sector?
The construction industry is estimated to account for 6% of global GDP, with Africa's construction market valued at around USD 5.4 billion in 2020 and LAC’s at USD 829.3 billion in 2018. This translates into more than 100 million jobs worldwide. However, this sector also accounted for the largest share of both global final energy use ...
US Advances Equity And Economic Opportunity Through Procurement.
With the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Biden-Harris Administration set an objective to ensure federal investments built wealth and opportunity for underserved entrepreneurs and small business owners.
One year from implementation, new data shows how the Biden-Harris Administration is tracking on meeting those objectives. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard ...
Sustainable Public Procurement and Economic Development
What is it?
For many industries contracting has become a global affair. Governments are rightly keen to gain economic advantages from a global economy but need to ensure that contracting can also be used as a driver to create jobs and innovation within their own region. This use case describes the use of procurement analytics and datasets ...
Measuring Life Cycle Costing
In this article from the Sustainable Public Procurement Toolkit, we explain how you can use data to measure and monitor progress against the goal of promoting life cycle costing approaches in procurement.
What is it?
Life-cycle costing or total cost of ownership refers to the accounting practice of determining the compound cost of an asset. In the context ...
Measuring Gender Inclusion
What Is Gender Inclusion Measurement?
To reduce the barriers women-led businesses face in public procurement markets, we need to be able to identify women-led businesses and understand to what extent they are bidding on and winning government contracts. This includes an understanding of both the number and the value of the contracts, as well as their sector. ...
Measuring Carbon Reduction
What Is Carbon Reduction in Procurement About?
Governments and companies are setting deadlines for achieving zero emissions. Public procurement can be used as a lever to drive change by promoting lower carbon alternatives into government supply chains.
This worked example below shows how using good procurement data and combining it with emissions data, it is possible to help ...
Options For Data Use
There are different ways in which open data can be used to drive and measure progress against sustainability goals.
So as part of the toolkit put together by Open Contracting Partnership, Public, and ourselves, we've identified ten different ways in which you can gather and use data to measure and monitor sustainability in procurement.
Option 1: Assign tags ...
Open Data & Measuring Progress
We believe all public procurement should be sustainable and open. Recently, with our partners Open Contracting and Public, we launched a new toolkit, to assist businesses with open data that drives sustainable public procurement implementation and measures sustainability outcomes.
Over the course of the next week, we will introduce you to the toolkit including an overview of ...
Blacklisting Needs Kid Gloves
In the UK’s House of Lords debate on procurement reform, there was some forthright questioning within the government on whether Bain and Company, who had been found to have acted illegally in South Africa, should still be engaged by the UK Government. The exchange raises the question of how the blacklisting of suppliers is intended to ...
Bain’s Woes in RSA Raises Questions in Parliament
Last week in a Lords Chamber debate, Lord Peter Hain asked why Bain & Company were still able to bid for multi-million-pound UK contracts “when the company has recently been found by a South African judicial inquiry to be guilty of unlawful complicity in corruption under former President Zuma?”
Hain is referencing the judicial commission’s findings on ...
Australian Pandemic PPE Contracts Cause Concern.
Much of the last two years have seen governments all over the world in a purchasing panic due to the pandemic. Understandably there has been an increase in direct award contracts, in response to the health emergency.
However, there have also been concerns over some fast-tracked, 'VIP' or other questionable procurement in some countries, and last week, ...