Can Government Procurement Data Help Achieve Net Zero Targets?
In the face of climate change and growing environmental concerns, the global call to action for achieving net-zero emissions has never been louder. Governments worldwide are setting ambitious targets to combat climate change, aiming to balance greenhouse gas emissions with removals by the mid-21st century. We wondered, how can government procurement data help with this process?
The ...
Sustainable Public Procurement Initiatives Across Continents
Governments around the world are recognising their role in shaping sustainable economies through their procurement practices. With a global government procurement market valued at $13tn many nations are implementing sustainable public procurement initiatives. We take a look at some here:
1. Europe: Sustainable Procurement Practices
Europe has been at the forefront of sustainable public procurement (SPP) initiatives, championing ...
Measuring Sustainable Public Procurement
One of the projects we are most proud of is working with The Open Contracting Partnership to create a Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) toolkit. The toolkit provides practical insights for the day-to-day needs of procurement professionals on adopting and measuring sustainable procurement.In this article we look at measuring sustainable public procurement.
What is 'sustainable public procurement' uptake?
Sustainable ...
EU Awards New Gas Aggregation Contract
In December 2022, EU energy ministers agreed to create a platform for the collective demand aggregation and joint procurement of gas, with a goal of providing up to 15% of gas, to fill each member country's storage facilities up to 90% of capacity.
The platform will allow gas companies to contract either jointly or individually.
This week, the ...
Collecting Data For Sustainable Procurement In Construction
Over the last few weeks we have been looking at setting a sustainable procurement framework in the construction industry, and what kind of data is needed to assist with this process. In this article we will look at how to best collect data. Specifically, we introduce some of the methods that can be used to collect ...
Selecting Data For Sustainable Procurement In Construction
It is estimated that around 40-50% of natural resources are transformed into construction material, and that as much as 30% of all building materials delivered to a construction site end up in waste. To minimise this, it is important to ensure that the procurement process allows for careful and detailed planning of resource use during the ...
Setting A Sustainable Procurement Framework For Construction
When procuring construction projects, it can be useful to underpin sustainability criteria on existing policy and regulation. When assessing the enabling framework, it can be useful to identify, or consider establishing, the following compliance sources:
National Planning Policies
Many countries have national, and local, planning policies which include Master Plans, long-term planning documents that guide the future development ...
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 ...
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 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 ...