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Incorporating Environmental Criteria into Procurement

This section of the LEAP toolkit is designed to assist you in incorporating environmental criteria into the procurement process in the most effective manner possible, whilst making sure that you keep within the legal framework set for procurement within the EU.

 

Tool B: Managing the Procurement Process. Find out which parts of the procurement process are most sensitive to the introduction of Environmental considerations. See how you can manage relatively few key steps in the procurement process to better effect securing better environmental outcomes and performance. If you have only few resources find out where to put your energies to the best effect

Tool F: Incorporating environmental demands into public Procurement. Understanding the legal framework is crucial. This tool provides an insight into the various stages of the procurement process and what you can and cannot do at the various stages.Find out about how you can use specification criteria, especially eco-label criteria and how to make sure the tender process as a whole works for your organisation in terms of driving environmental performance;

Tool E: Standard specifications.This tool gives you direct access to environmental specifications and criteria for seven key product groups: Renewable Energy, IT, Construction, Transport, Food(Assured and Organic), Cleaning Agents and Paper. You can use these directly or even just try the key criteria set out in the summary to start improving the environmental performance of your procurement.

Tool G – Information on specifications, products and consortia. This is a data base which allows you to explore a wide range of product specifications in many European languages. Almost anything you will want to buy will be on one or other of the websites in this tool.

Tool H – Promoting a Green market. Shows how you can use public procurement to improve the environmental performance of the products you buy and the environmental competencies and performance of the suppliers you work with.