SPP Targets:
- From 2025, only zero emission and biogas vehicles are allowed for transport of goods and services in municipal contracts. The target also applies for vehicles and machines owned by the municipality.
- Require all zero emission construction sites by 2025.
- Increase the share of organic food in the city’s procurements to 50%.
- Reduce food waste in the municipality by 50% by 2030.
- Halve the meat consumption in Oslo Municipality's canteens and institutions, by the end of 2023.
- Increase the share of fairtrade-bananas to 70%, fairtrade-coffee to 30% and fairtrade-tea to 10%, by 2022.
Sustainable and Circular Procurement:
Oslo is continuously improving its circular systems in order to make the most out of our resources. The City Council wishes to promote innovation and new jobs in the circular economy and adopted the “Thematic Plan for Circular Economy towards 2030”. The plan outlines the importance of transitioning to a circular economy with key objectives being waste reduction, resource efficiency and the promotion of sustainable production and consumption patterns. Furthermore, the plan highlights the role of strategic procurement in this transition.
In recent years, the City has increased its focus on facilitating more circular consumption patterns, in particular through its central framework agreements. Examples of requirements and services within existing or new central framework agreements are:
- A reuse platform for furniture and inventory articles
- Ability to purchase used furniture
- Repair- and redesign services for furniture
- Transport and storage services for furniture and inventory articles
- 80% of furniture within the corporate-wide framework agreements contain an ecolabel.
- Stricter requirements for the lifespan, performance and warranty period of ICT-products such as mobile phones, PCs and tablets
- Takeback schemes for the reuse of ICT-products such as mobile phones, PCs and tablets.
- Inclusion of reuse schemes for toners used on multifunction machines
- Inclusion of modular products, such as the Fairphone.
- Fixed prices for repairs of screens for PCs and tablets
- All PCs, PC screens and multifunction machines contain a type 1 ecolabel
Social and Ethical Procurement:
The City of Oslo is committed to promoting international human rights and ensuring that working conditions throughout the supply chain meet the standards set by Fundamental Human Rights, the ILO Core Conventions, and relevant national labor regulations in producing countries. Recognizing the high risk of human and labor rights violations in many of its procurements, the city incorporates social requirements in the majority of these procurements, including social selection criteria and standard contract clauses.
The revised Oslo Model, adopted in May 2023, includes comprehensive instructions and standard requirements for due diligence in responsible business conduct. This updated model emphasizes a systematic approach to due diligence, ensuring that suppliers have robust management systems for labor and human rights issues. This involves identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for potential adverse impacts on human rights and labor conditions.
At the contract management stage, we regularly follow up through desktop research, follow-up meetings, documentation reviews, and audits. We also collaborate with other public buyers and experts to address systematic challenges in prioritized supply chains. Based on risk assessments, our prioritized categories in citywide framework agreements include ICT equipment (mobiles, tablets, and PCs), batteries (for electric vehicles and ICT), food (fruits, vegetables, raw materials), medical equipment (disposable gloves), and textiles (workwear). This prioritization entails closer contract follow-up, collaboration with external experts, and the development of criteria to address systematic challenges.
For instance, the City has set additional criteria for suppliers to engage in social dialogue at production sites in the textile industry and to reduce the risk of conflict minerals in agreements for PCs and tablets.
Oslo is a “Fairtrade Capital” and one of the objectives is to increase the share of Fairtrade labelled goods i our public procurement. 80% of the bananas purchased by the City of Oslo in 2024 were labelled Fairtrade and ecological. 70 % of the purchased coffee had Fairtrade or another ethical trade mark. Due to the systematic approach and effort in implementing ethical and fair trade in public procurement, The City of Oslo was awarded as the “Fairtrade City of the Year” by Fairtrade Norway.
Through our membership in Ethical Trade Norway, the City of Oslo demonstrates a strengthened commitment to ethical trade through procurement. Our annual member report to Ethical Trade Norway for 2023 is available in the Report Database at www.etiskhandel.no
Labour Crime and Social Dumping:
The City of Oslo continues to be at the forefront in fighting social dumping, work related crime, and ensuring decent labour conditions for workers in our domestic and global supply chains. The model is a comprehensive framework of measures and requirements to help combat social dumping, and to promote decent working conditions, using public procurement as a strategic tool.
More than 7 years have passed since the city adopted and introduced the first version of the "Oslo-model". In 2023 the City of Oslo introduced a new and revised Oslo Model. Regarding domestic supply chains, the model now compiles more than 22 requirements. It applies in particular to high-risk industries such as construction and cleaning services, but also in other future high-risk areas.
The changes in the model of 2023 are based on the city’s experiences since 2017, and has both added and removed some of the provisions in the new model. A new provision is in regard to the contractors professional integrity. If the city has legitimate doubt about the professional integrity of the contractor or any subcontractors, or who the City of Oslo’s real contracting party is, the contractor is obliged, upon request, to provide relevant documentation showing that the contractor/subcontractor has not committed serious errors that may give rise to doubts about professional integrity and/or who is the real contracting party.
In addition the Oslo Model of 2023 has a heightened focus on contract management, and has instructions not only for the suppliers but also for the buyers in the city’s entities.
It is a continuous work to further develop and implement the model.
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