The City of Malmö, in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden's third largest city. Malmö's total procurement volume is €0.9 bn per year. Through strategic public procurement the City of Malmö aims to take social and ecological responsibility and create incentives for the providing companies to revise their social and environmental agenda.
 | 330k Population |
 | 26k Employees |
 | 2012 Date joined
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The policy regarding public procurement states that public procurement and other purchases should - apart from being permeated by the fundamental principles of public procurement - be guided by environmental, social and ethical terms. In practice, this results in contractual terms regarding, for example, ethical conditions for persons in the supply chain.
CIRCULAR PROCUREMENT
The City of Malmö is a partner in the Interrreg Baltic SEA Circular PP project: Using innovation procurement and capacity building to promote Circular Economy. The main focus of this project is to use public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst to enhance the market uptake of innovative circular products and services by building capacity among all stakeholders of the value chain (namely procurers, suppliers and policy makers) and introducing the principles of circular economy thinking in the call for tenders in a close feedback dialog with SMEs. The City of Malmö has chosen furniture as the pilot sector for this project.
The city policy is that all food purchased should be organic by 2020. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food procurement should be reduced by 40 % by 2020, compared to the 2002 level, which was 13,360 ton CO₂-equivalents. In 2006 Malmö became Sweden's first certified Fairtrade City, and, for example, has increased its internal purchase of ethically certified coffee from 0.5 % in 2006 to 60 % in 2012.
For further information on the activities of Malmö visit their website:
or email procurement@iclei.org
Using public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst for the circular economy
