The Procura Campaign Driving sustainability through public procurement

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The Procura Campaign Driving sustainability
through public procurement

• Mark Hidson
• Director Sustainable Procurement
• ICLEI European Secretariat

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What is the Procura Campaign
Procura is an initiative designed to help
support public authorities across Europe in
implementing sustainable procurement and help
promote their achievements.
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Why join Procura?

• Achieve financial savings
• Access to best practices
• Promote your achievements
• Participate in training and events
• Share experience with others
• Meet your local environmental, social and
• health goals
• Get advice from experts
• The Procura approach is tailored to meet the
  specific needs of any type and size of authority.

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Support

• The Procura milestone approach
• The Procura manual
• Procura key criteria
• Advice support
• Keep up to date
• Learn from others
• Access to seminars and conference

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The Procura milestone approach
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The Procura Manual
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Procura key criteria

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Advice support
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Learn from others

• Participants meeting once a year
• Participants telephone meeting once a year
• Ongoing sharing of information

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Access to seminars conferences
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Promotion

• Present your achievements internationally
• Demonstrate your commitment to sustainable
  procurement
• Use of the Procura logo

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Members Achievements

• Barcelona spends 16.2 million EUR a year on
  cleaning services using non-toxic products
  meeting the Procura criteria
• In 2005 100 of the IT equipment purchased by the
  City of Reggio Emilia in Italy was energy
  efficient.
• Kolding 100 of IT equipment purchases and
  cleaning services met the Procura criteria,
  65,000kg of organic food was bought
• City of Lille uses 50 recycled paper, serves
  organic meals in schools at receptions,
  reduced energy consumption for public lighting by
  32
• City of Ferrara, Italy, 80-90 of all food served
  in school canteens is organic, it purchases 50
  recycled paper uses non-toxic cleaning products

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To participate in the Campaign

• Commit to self-set sustainable procurement
  targets
• Report progress on sustainable procurement
  achievements to ICLEI
• Send tender documents to ICLEI for all 6 Procura
  product groups
• Contribute an annual participation fee

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Fees
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Join the movement

• E-mail mark.hidson_at_iclei-europe.org
• www.procuraplus.org