Assessing the Degree of Sustainability Integration in Canadian Public Sector Procurement

Ponte, Monica Da; Foley, Megan; Cho, Charles H.

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“…Verificou-se que há disseminação das políticas públicas voltadas para as CPSs em diversos países (ROMODINA, 2016;PONTE, 2020;MALOLITNEVA, 2019), no entanto, esse movimento se ressente de uma implementação mais efetiva, pelo fato de ocorrer de forma voluntária, por parte das instituições públicas, o que impede a determinação de um ritmo geral mais intenso pelos governos nacionais (SIKIC; TURUDIC, 2017).…”

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“…Indo ao encontro da Agenda 2030, que contém 169 metas de médio prazo a serem alcançadas no período de 2016 a 2030 e que possui 17 objetivos (ODS), o Canadá, um dos países que assinaram o acordo da durante Assembleia Geral realizada pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), tem investido fortemente em reduzir as emissões poluentes em 30% até 2030 e na proibição de plásticos descartáveis prejudiciais até 2021. Esta conduta se explica pelo fato do governo canadense reconhecer a urgência dos desafios ambientais e sociais globais, e seguindo esta mesma visão, o governo deverá adequar com as mesmas finalidades as CPSs locais, que constituem uma parcela altamente impactante na economia (PONTE, 2020).…”

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Compras Públicas Sustentáveis: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Souza

Xavier

Mello

2021

BARU

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A crescente preocupação com a degradação do meio ambiente tem impelido o governo a instituir práticas sustentáveis em suas atividades. Este trabalho apresenta uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre o tema “Compras Públicas sustentáveis” e visa responder as seguintes questões: “As Compras Públicas Sustentáveis são uma preocupação mundial?” e, “Em que medida as práticas associadas à sustentabilidade estão sendo adotadas nas compras públicas?’. Com base em uma pesquisa bibliográfica e estudos nacionais e internacionais no período 2016 a 2020, publicados nas bases de dados Web of Science, Scopus e Polymer Library (ProQuest), foi utilizado o método Prisma para apresentação dos resultados, onde dos 255 artigos localizados nas 3 bases indexadas, identificou-se 23 artigos para serem analisados por terem relevância com tema. A revisão da literatura permitiu identificar elementos que caracterizam um movimento global de adoção de Compras Públicas Sustentáveis, destacando-se níveis distintos de maturidade e abrangência entre os governos nacionais contemplados, e nas organizações públicas dentro de cada estado, na concepção, implementação e avaliação de suas iniciativas.

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Compras Públicas Sustentáveis: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Souza

Xavier

Mello

2021

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“…In a more recent study of Canadian Public Sector Procurement, Da Ponte et al (2020) found the degree of sustainability in request-for-proposals to be superficial, with limited integration into the evaluation process. Little appears to have changed since Lloyd and McCue (2004) found public procurement to be a rules-based process restricted by overemphasis on market‐driven commercial goals, valuing economy and efficiency over social welfare and public value, and operating within a context of rule-bound risk avoidance (Erridge, 2007).…”

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Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper?

Hamilton

2022

CPOIB

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Purpose This paper examines the role of government procurement as a social policy mechanism within a multilateral open trading system. Government regulations globally are being transformed to foster more responsible business conduct in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Yet, concern that sustainability may present a discriminatory barrier to trade has stalled the progress of sustainable public procurement (SPP) at the international level, raising questions regarding the role and scope of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) to align taxpayer-funded contracts with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. Design/methodology/approach With a focus on social sustainability, this paper reviews the grey and academic literature to assess the changing landscape of public procurement policy and supply chain legislation in high-income countries. Findings Frontrunner nations are adopting a mandatory approach to sustainable public procurement and due diligence legislation is elevating supply chain risk from reputational damage to legal liability. While technological innovation and the clean, green production of manufactured goods dominates the sustainable public procurement literature, the social aspects of sustainability poverty, inequality and human rights remain underrepresented. Research limitations/implications The scope of this paper is limited to the examination of government procurement covered by the WTO-GPA (2012). Smaller value contracts, under the WTO-GPA thresholds and the category of defence are beyond the scope of the paper. Social implications The paper focusses on the underserved topic of social sustainability in business-to-government (B2G) – business to government – supply chains arguing that for responsible business conduct to become a competitive advantage, it must be more meaningfully rewarded on the demand-side of all taxpayer-funded contracts in organisation for economic co-operation and development countries. The paper introduces the idea of priceless procurement as a mechanism to build system capacity in the evaluation of non-financial sustainability objectives. Originality/value To build the capacity to stimulate competition based on social and environmental policy objectives, the paper introduces the concept of priceless procurement in B2G contracts.

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“…In addition, the current research on Chinese SPP is also confined to data statistics of key works. Future research could focus more on assessing the degree of SPP integration (Da Ponte et al, 2020) to better understand how SPP is implemented throughout the procurement cycle. The current research only covers data from convectional procurement, and as PPP procurement is regulated separately in China and China has already developed into the world's leading PPP market (World Bank, 2018), further research is required to assess the actual implementation of SPP in PPP projects, using the multi-dimensional concept of public-private partnership , and possibly, the same methodology to provide precise benchmarking exercises with the current study.…”

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Implementation of sustainable public procurement in China: An assessment using quantitative text analysis in large-scale tender documents

Cao

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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In recent years, increasing attention has been paid worldwide to the sustainable development of the economy and society. Because of its size and prevalence, public procurement has always been a powerful policy tool used to tackle issues related to the sustainability of society, economy, and environment. China has attached high priority to sustainable development, and many aspects of sustainable public procurement (SPP) have been implemented though no official documents have referred to the concept of SPP. Therefore, little is known about the actual implementation and patterns of SPP in practice. The purpose of the study is to assess the actual implementation and patterns of SPP in China. We obtained 42,369 public procurement documents for 2015–2020 using the web crawler technique and the actual implementation of SPP was assessed through the text-mining technique. The research shows that SPP is implemented in more than 82% of the documents and appears in an upward trend in the past 6 years. Several patterns of SPP implementation are also identified. First, most documents implement more than one category of SPP. Second, small and medium-sized enterprise-oriented procurement is the most implemented SPP main category, overtaking environmentally friendly procurement only by a small margin, and the procurement for the circular economy is the least implemented. Third, there seem to be some relationships between the level of SPP implementation and the award method, tender price, and contract type. Finally, there is a substantial transformation of China’s SPP toward social aspects of SPP in recent years. Policy implications, limitations, and issues for future studies are also discussed.

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Assessing the Degree of Sustainability Integration in Canadian Public Sector Procurement

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Compras Públicas Sustentáveis: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Compras Públicas Sustentáveis: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper?

Implementation of sustainable public procurement in China: An assessment using quantitative text analysis in large-scale tender documents

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