SCHAERBEEK

OVERVIEW

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 HIGHLIGHT

      • 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



      113k

      Population

      2021

      Date joined

      CONTACT

      Maria Giovanna Zamburlini

      European Programs and Financing Officer

       

       

      WEBSITE

       

      More information? Email procurement@iclei.org  

      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

      SPEND 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.

      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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      FURTHER INFORMATION

      For further information on the activities of the Municipality of Schaerbeek visit their website:

      Website

      or email procurement@iclei.org 

      PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

      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 information here.