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Metropolitan City of Rome

SPP IN METROPOLITAN AREA OF ROME

The Metropolitan Area of Rome (La Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale) links national, regional and communal levels and acts as administrator and coordinator for the population and services of the City of Rome and its adjacent communities. It adopted its GPP (Green Public Procurement) Action Plan in 2009, updated in 2014, which sets aims and targets to use natural resources in an efficient and economical manner, to reduce the use of dangerous substances and the amount of waste sent to land-fill sites.

SPP HIGHLIGHTS

Won the "Compra Verde" Award (Projects for Sustainability and Green Public Procurement) in 2010 and 2012 and the Consip Award for the best GPP and sustainable project in 2011. In 2018, during the CompraVerde Forum, it received an honourable mention for the best green tender and for the best application of Italian minimum environmental and social criteria (CAM) and for triggering innovation in the field of school furniture.
100% of the tenders for office and school furniture, paper and cleaning services used GPP criteria
90% of ICT tenders contained GPP criteria
30% of tenders for uniforms included GPP criteria
In 2016, it started a digital monitoring system for green purchases
In 2017, it signed a protocol for GPP among Italian Metropolitan Cities - Protocollo d'intesa per l'attuazione del GPP nelle città metropolitane.
In 2018, it published guidelines for the verification of Italian CAM - Linee Guida per le verifiche dei criteri ambientali minimi, in several fields: vehicles, textiles, furniture, shoes, construction, cleaning services, waste and catering with the aim of supporting the implementation of CAM foreseen in the Action Plan of the Metropolitan City. A particular focus was given to the awarding and the execution.
Since 2020, it only purchases 100% green energy for its buildings and schools (380 approximately).
It's currently working on a price list for sustainable construction in line with the CAM for construction, and on internal trainings for the staff.

Population: 4,300,000
Employees: 1,367
Date joined: 2011

CONTACT

Patrizia Giancotti
Officer for Sustainable Development

Website (Italian)

More information? Send an email to procurement@iclei.org

SPP IN ACTION

POLICY AND STRATEGY

The revision and update of the Provincial Action Plan (17 January 2014) included:

Training of internal staff
Training of municipalities with particular focus on those that have signed the Covenant of Mayors
A new monitoring system to be integrated with the system of the current environmental accounting and with the need to monitor of the Covenant of Mayors (i.e. CO₂ emission reduction)
Implementation of pilot actions such as training of trainers of vocational training centres
Actions for the public works sector

Price Listing:

In Italy public works are estimated on the basis of regional price lists. The Metropolitan City of Rome, in response to the challenges of lack of information on local market readiness and costs when introducing environmental criteria into public works tenders, carried out a detailed analysis on the availability of low environmental impact construction materials at national and regional level. It approved a new price list based on the results of this analysis which was published online and disseminated trough workshops both at internal and local level.

Keeping Track of SPP:

In 2016, the Metropolitan Area of Rome introduced a new GPP monitoring system that allows for a punctual assessment on the achievement of GPP objectives and for the collection of basic info for monitoring CO2 savings also in the future, after the project end. It is the first public authority in Italy to introduce this innovative monitoring system, which is linked to the public procurement electronic information system. It will allow to elaborate and publish data according to different criteria such as date, product categories, purchasing departments and volume of the contracts.

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Sectors

Rome has introduced SPP in the following categories:

Windows
Catering
Promotional material (gadgets)
Publishing
Vehicles Maintenance
Photocopiers and Toner
Cleaning products
Uniforms

Projects and Initatives

GPP 2020: Mainstreaming low carbon procurment in Europe. Website

Resources

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