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The City of Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway, with 133,000 inhabitants, and Norway’s densest populated municipality. Stavanger is the administrative, economic and cultural centre of Rogaland county and seat for the University of Stavanger, the county governor, county administration and several national and international businesses.
Stavanger has a long-term development strategy development regarding environmental issues, diversity, public health and societal security and a long tradition of citizens’ involvement. The Stavanger region is well known as the energy capital of Europe, but is also challenged to change towards a greener and more sustainable branding.
Stavanger’s procurement strategy has a clear focus on innovation and social responsibility. The city is applying EU innovation procedures to achieve better value for money, sustainability, and social benefits. The City has also developed a new standard called “Knowledge based Procurement” which is applied in most tender processes. Stavanger has experience in national Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI), delivering a new info- and control system for buildings to improve their environmental performance.
Partner in the Norwegian “Innovation Procurement Programme”
Member of the Ethical Trade Initiative, became a Fair Trade City in 2007
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133k Population |
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Stavanger’s procurement strategy has a clear focus on sustainability, innovation and social responsibility. The city is applying EU innovation procedures to achieve better value for money, sustainability, and social benefits.
In its Climate and Environmental Plan, the City of Stavanger commits to using procurement to achieve sustainability related goals within the community and beyond. Stavanger Municipality strives to fulfil its social responsibilities by demanding and consuming goods and services that are produced in accordance with high ethical, social, and environmental standards, across all departments. The procurement practices are in line with the guidance from the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) on good environmental leadership. The City’s procurement is also based on circular economy principles wherever possible. Stavanger promotes collaboration on measures and sharing lessons learned in various national and international networks.
Stavanger is a forerunner in applying ethical criteria in its procurement – including the use of targeted selection criteria. Since 2010 it has required bidders to document their supply chains with a focus on those contracts which present the greatest risks of human rights violations.
An annual risk assessment is carried out for all upcoming contracts. For high risk contracts, comprehensive selection criteria relating to ethical trade are applied. Supplier seminars are held to prepare the market. During the contract delivery phase, information from third-party systems such as the Ethical Trading Initiative are used, as well as individual supplier meetings and questionnaires.
The City Stavanger wants to reach zero emissions on all its construction and building sites, therefore it is working on including zero emission requirements in upcoming tenders. It aims to push the market towards adapting stricter climate and environmental criteria, leading the way for other stakeholders to follow.
To achieve this, the city is working with specific environmental objectives, in close cooperation with environmental consultants, and using environmentally-friendly materials that result in lower emissions and energy consumption. This includes using the BREEAM NOR environmental certification scheme to classify environmental ambitions and produce climate and environmental accounts for both new and renovated buildings. Life cycle costs (LCC) and GHG accounts are prepared for all municipal buildings in their preliminary project phase, and more detailed calculations in the detailed design, tender and building phases, as well as upon completion, are becoming more common.
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF INNOVATION (PPI)The City of Stavanger is actively applying PPi to improve the outcome of its procurement, in terms of value for money, innovation, and the environment.
In their transition to an amission free citiy, transport plays an important role for Stavanger's procurement. Wherever possible, all municipality associated companies are requested to choose zero emission vehicles when they procure service vehicles. The cities aims to transition to fossil free taxis, and ensure there are sufficient charging opportunities. In all public tenders nad procurements, the goal is to require completely fossil free delivery.
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