PROCURA+ MARKETPLACE
The Procura+ Marketplace offers participants the chance to learn about procurement activities across Europe. Market stands promote and celebrate procurement related services, news and challenges with the Procura+ Network. The following market stands will provide room for discussion during the 2025 Procura+ Seminar
1. City of Oslo (NO), City of Aachen (DE), and City of Kosice (SK) - Green Responsible Innovative Procurement (GRIP): Scaling up through cooperation
Green Responsible Innovative Procurement” (GRIP) is a collaboration between the cities of Oslo (Norway), Aachen (Germany) and Kosice (Slovakia), together with SINTEF and CIKE. The project helps European cities use public procurement as a strategic tool for climate action and aims to strengthen political commitment within the EU Cities Mission network. The experience of the City of Oslo shows that introducing strict requirements on, for example, zero emission transport is feasible, cost-effective, and can lead to significant emissions reductions. Through capacity development, documenting and sharing lessons learned, conducting state-of-the-art research, exchanging experiences, and developing and testing methods among cities GRIP will: (1) support Aachen and Kosice in launching sustainable procurement pilots, (2) develop a peer-reviewed toolkit with adaptable methods for cities of all sizes, (3) encourage more cities to commit to green procurement through a joint declaration.
2. ICLEI Europe- Accelerating Innovation Procurement with SPIN4EIC & InnoMatch initiatives
The ICLEI SIP team is pleased to introduce two European initiatives: SPIN4EIC and InnoMatch. Both initiatives are funded by the EIC (European Innovation Council) and are operating under the umbrella of the EIC Innovation Procurement Programme and aim to strengthen innovation procurement in Europe. To this end, the EIC fosters strong collaboration between top EIC innovators, including deep-tech SMEs and start-ups capable of delivering innovative solutions, and public or private buyers to stimulate new partnerships, modernise services, and contribute to the advancement of the European Union economy.
3. Province of Zeeland- Measuring the Impact of GPP: How do you track whether suppliers deliver on their sustainability promises?
At this stand, the province of Zeeland will show you how easy it can be to monitor the impact of Green Public Procurement (GPP). With just a few simple steps, you’ll learn how to integrate impact tracking into your procurement process — turning ambitions into measurable results. Zeeland's goal? To help drive climate action and support the transition to a circular economy. Test the online monitoring yourself and help Zeeland improve it to make sure it works for you. Feedback is welcome!
4. GIZ- Implementation of human rights due diligence obligations in public procurement
At this market stand you can find out about opportunities for implementing human rights due diligence (HRDD) obligations in public procurement. GIZ will share key findings of a manual and sample clauses developed around this topic and point out at which levels of the procurement procedure public contracting authorities can implement these criteria. GIZ is very interested in exchanging experiences in that regard, whether someone already (successfully) used HRDD criteria in procurement procedures or is interested in trying it out in the future.
5. TCO Development- The role of ecolabels in sustainable and circular public procurement
Discover how third-party ecolabels can help public buyers make more sustainable and circular choices. Drawing on decades of experience developing TCO Certified, the global sustainability certification for IT products, TCO Development will share practical examples of how trusted Type I ecolabels help procurement to actively shape the market by driving supplier accountability, fostering continuous improvement, and accelerating the shift to a circular economy. TCO will also explore how ecolabels provide independent verification and support transparent reporting of social and environmental impacts. Join to exchange experiences and explore how credible ecolabels can strengthen your procurement strategy and sustainability goals.
6. City of Oslo (NO)- Fleet management and car sharing - an opportunity to save money
Oslo's analysis shows that the city has too many cars compared to the actual need in the Municipality. Oslo's calculations also show that it can save 2 million euros in annual operating costs by reducing the number of vehicles through interdepartmental car sharing. This could also lead to savings in procurement costs of 4 to 7 million euros by 2030, if it reduce the amount of cars it buys. To do something about this The City of Oslo has purchased a new fleet management with an integrated sharing system for the municipality’s vehicles and machines. The system is expected to save money and deliver climate benefits. Oslo would like to show participants its new system and share how this kind om system can make it easier to manage your city fleet and make it easier to start with car sharing in your city.
7. City of Oslo (NO)- Beyond Procurement: Building structures for circular use
The City of Oslo is rethinking how procurement, ownership, and internal services can enable circular consumption of furniture and ICT. Its goal is simple: reduce costs, cut environmental impact, and make reuse, sharing, and repair the easy choice. Oslo has already developed an ownership and management model supported by a sourcing strategy that supports this new way of consumption for ICT-products. The City is moving towards renting out municipal computers through a central service. This autumn, it is designing a similar strategy for furniture, aiming to make reuse more cost-efficient and user-friendly, so it becomes a real alternative to buying new. Visit the stand to explore how smarter governance and delivery models can unlock circular solutions in the public sector.
8. ICLEI Europe- The Ultimate one-stop-shop: the EU GPP Helpdesk
Cities across Europe are increasingly demonstrating strong progress in sustainable public procurement, setting high standards for environmental responsibility and innovation. This marketplace provides a comprehensive overview of the most pressing and practical issues in green public procurement today. Drawing on the library of good practices, it highlights how local governments are integrating environmental criteria, ecolabels, dialogue with suppliers and circular economy principles into their public procurement processes to achieve environmental and social impacts. Information will be provided on successful strategies being implemented in sectors such as construction, furniture, textile, food and digital services. It presents examples of how cities integrate sustainability into every stage of public procurement, from pre-market consultations and staff capacity building to carbon footprint assessment and life cycle costing. By presenting real-life cases and applicable practices, the marketplace aims to help design public procurement processes that deliver meaningful results in line with EU priorities. Access the library of good practices, criteria, interviews and more to strengthen public procurement frameworks with proven solutions that drive sustainable transformation.
9. ICLEI Europe - Public Procurement as a Future Lever for a Nature-Positive Economy
This Marketplace session introduces GoNaturePositive!, an EU-funded research project aiming to shift towards a nature-positive economy. By identifying enabling policies, financial mechanisms and governance models, the project builds the evidence base reflecting the activities pilots in Europe and beyond, on different sectors (built-environment, tourism, agriculture, blue economy, forestry). The session will spotlight how the project aims to use public procurement as one of the levers to scale up nature-positive solutions. It will also look at pilot sites that are beginning to explore biodiversity-inclusive procurement, such as nature-positive landscaping contracts and biodiversity net gain in infrastructure tenders, and consider potential areas of learning as they emerge.
10. Rijkswaterstaat- SPP criteria tool
The Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) criteria tool is a user-friendly and free web tool that helps governments to procure sustainably and circularly. It provides hundreds of up-to-date procurement criteria that are directly applicable in tender documents. This way, you can easily translate your organization’s SPP policy and ambitions into practice.