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Schaerbeek

SPP IN SCHAERBEEK

Schaerbeek is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. Its population of over 133.000 inhabitants is characterized by a rich cultural diversity.
Schaerbeek works to foster a sustainable approach to the local management, working on its own Municipal Plan for Sustainable Development liked to multiple local initiatives. In public expenditure, Schaerbeek aims to improve efficiency, while being true to its social and environmental standards.

SPP HIGHLIGHTS

Sustainable Public Procurement Strategy Plan
- Adoption by City Council in March 2021 of a list of actions for short medium and long terms to work internally on sustainability of public procurement
Participation to URBACT III Project “Making Spend Matter”: changing procurement, changing cities
- Transfer network of 6 cities sharing the good practice of “Spend Analysis” from Preston City
Spend Analysis
- Analysis of the 300 public tenders with biggest amounts engaged for 2017 and 2018 to identify their strategic impact on local economy

Population: 113,000
Date joined: 2021

CONTACT

Maria Giovanna Zamburlini
European Programs and Financing Officer

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

SPP IN ACTION

ACTIONS: WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON

Schaerbeek has participated to the “Making Spend Matter” URBACT III network in 2019-2021 on sustainable public procurement. This European project gave the opportunity to exchange with five other cities to position Schaerbeek as a “responsible consumer”:

Improving the efficiency in public expenditure, while being true to its social and environmental standards
Boosting Schaerbeek’s political and strategic drive to develop a procurement strategy

Sustainable Procurement Strategy

Analysing municipal spending data is not an end by itself. If the objective is to improve the "sustainable" aspect of public procurement, the analysis must be seen as the first step on which a real "sustainable public procurement" strategy must be built.

It is for this reason that one of the objectives of the project was to propose a "sustainable public procurement" strategic plan, with proposals for short, medium and long-term actions and 20 deliverables. These actions build on, and reinforce, the efforts already started in previous years to work on the sustainability of Schaerbeek's public markets. This is indeed a long-term job: the city of Preston has now been working on the expenditure analysis basis for over 8 years.
The "Sustainable Public Procurement Strategic Plan" is articulated with other municipal strategic plans (PCDD, Climate Plan, Diversity Plan) and is therefore intended to be an instrument for implementing the values of the Municipality.
The Plan is composed of two tools:
- A Strategic plan with the list of actions (short-medium and long terms) & deliverables foreseen
- A Supporting document illustrating the steps taken upstream of the development of the strategic plan, the objectives of the plan, the legal framework, etc.

At this stage, it is a question of proposals for actions, which could be implemented according to the resources allocated in the coming months and years:

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Speed Analysis

As the first deliverable of the project, Schaerbeek carried out the analysis of its expenditure (Spend Analysis) via public contracts for the years 2017 and 2018, on the basis of the methodology developed by the city of Preston, coordinator of the network. Concretely, it means studying how the analysis of spending and public procurement in cities can advance practices, in order to generate more economic, social and environmental benefits.

Projects and Initatives

Making Spend Matter: Making Spend Matter Transfer network explores how to use spend analysis as an evidence tool to enhance the impact of procurement by public / anchor institutions in order to bring additional economic, social and environmental benefits to the local economy and its citizens. This will be achieved by transferring the Good Practice developed by Preston in this area. More informationhere.

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