Green public procurement as an initiative for sustainable consumption. An exploratory study of Spanish public universities

Pacheco-Blanco, Bélgica; Ceca, María José Bastante

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.056

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“…A first relevant line proposes that SPP is strictly bound to green procurement criteria (Parikka-Alhola, 2008;Testa et al, 2012;Pacheco-Blanco and Bastante-Ceca, 2016;Rainville, 2016). Other authors focused on other relevant criteria.…”

Section: Sustainable Public Procurementmentioning

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Public healthcare practices and criteria for a sustainable procurement: A comparative study between UK and Italy

Chiarini

Opoku²,

Vagnoni

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The Health sector can play a significant role towards achieving sustainable development by putting sustainability at the heart of procurement activities. This research analyses the differences relatinged to how two different National Healthcare Systems (NHS), the Italian and the British, are managing their Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP). In particular, in terms of supplier’s and bidders’ sustainable evaluation through specific practices and criteria. The research mainly adopts quantitative inquiry using a survey with procurement professionals from public sector healthcare organisations. A Likert’s scale questionnaire was designed to test seven hypotheses covering SPP criteria analysed using Fisher’s Exact and Mann-Whitney U tests. While the UK health sector organisations seem to have a propensity for requesting suppliers with an improvement in environmental performances over time and a compliance with voluntary social accountability standards, the Italian organisations seem more focused on the mandatory laws and regulations concerning environment and safety. Other interesting differences lie in the requests to the suppliers of the compliance with voluntary standards related to packaging. The research is just limited to two countries; future studies aimed at comparing SPP criteria for the public healthcare among the other European countries is recommended. Moreover, the findings raised issues such as the trade-off between costs of the product and environmental criteria, the use of national and international standards as supplier’s evaluation criteria, the carbon footprint as a way for gaining more trust from local stakeholders and the possible impact of suppliers’ ethical scandals in the public sector

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Section: Sustainable Public Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public healthcare practices and criteria for a sustainable procurement: A comparative study between UK and Italy

Chiarini

Opoku²,

Vagnoni

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Which is the impact of the procedures related with the GPP? ), many studies have analysed the governmental procedures regarding the integration of the environmental criteria in the public offers of purchase (Oruezabala and Rico, 2012;Pacheco-Blanco and Bastante-Ceca, 2016;Varnäs et al, 2009;Nissinen et al, 2009;Faith-Ell, 2005;Fet et al, 2011;Testa et al, 2016a;Lundberg et al, 2016;Michelsen and de Boer, 2009), the level of use of these criteria in different countries (Nissinen et al, 2009;Fuentes-Bargues et al, 2017), the factors that influence the inclusion of the green criteria in the public auctions (Testa et al, 2012), the effects of including environmental criteria in the offers of purchase (Parikka-Alhola, 2008). The contracting authorities must award a contract based on the most economically advantageous offer (by applying the criteria: price, cost, quality-price ratio, quality-cost ratio).…”

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“…In general, the limits of the analysed researches refer to the sample size, the impossibility of the generalizability of data (Arvidsson and Stage, 2012;Bala et al, 2008;Diófási and Valkó, 2014;Faith-Ell, 2005;Mansi, 2015;Mashele and Chuchu, 2018;Leal Filho et al, 2019;Hall et al, 2016;Oruezabala and Rico, 2012;Pacheco-Blanco and Bastante-Ceca, 2016;Walker and Brammer, 2012;Young et al, 2016), how data is collected (Mansi, 2015;McMurray et al, 2014;Oruezabala and Rico, 2012;Pacheco-Blanco and Bastante-Ceca, 2016;Testa et al, 2012;Testa et al, 2016b;Young et al, 2016), lack of a customized approach depending on specific conditions (Aldenius and Khan, 2017;Arvidsson and Stage, 2012;Leal Filho et al, 2019;Oruezabala and Rico, 2012).…”

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Green Public Procurement in the Academic Literature

Chersan¹,

Florentin²,

Gorgan³

et al. 2020

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The study aim is to present a review of the literature dedicated to green public procurement. We analyse traditionally and using a structured literature review 115 articles indexed in Scopus on this topic. The contribution of the paper consists in the development of the knowledge regarding the green procurement in the public domain, by highlighting the main investigations in the literature and their results, identifying the limits, but also the orientation towards future research. The results indicate increased attention paid by researchers to raising awareness of the importance of green procurement and its effect on sustainable development, as well as the need to create tools for implementation by both governments and entities involved in such purchases. We believe that our paper can have an impact on practice and public purchases standards, as it crystallizes the ideas of issuing applicable and useful regulations in terms of green procurement.

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“…Cheng et al (2018) mention that the introduction of GPP has recently included new industries, and there is also a growing trend in the implementation of GPP. Belgica and Jose (2016) analysed the potential problems encountered by European municipalities in introducing sustainable procurement, in particular eco-labelled ethics and fair trade products. GPP is defined in the EC's Communication as "a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle when compared that would otherwise be procured" (EC, 2019).…”

Section: Background Of Gpp In Europementioning

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Green Public Procurement: Case Study of Latvian Municipalities

Pelša

2019

Economics and Business

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Green public procurement (GPP) is an instrument for public institutions that have made sustainable consumption and financial aids savings, particularly taking into consideration expenses of the total life cycle of the agreement, not just the procurement price. Municipalities are important to promotion of sustainable consumption through their positive effects on citizens and other stakeholders. The present paper analyses the contribution of municipalities of the Republic of Latvia in developing sustainable consumption through GPP. The aim of the paper is to explore the development of GPP in municipalities, analysing influencing factors. By analysing data from the Procurement Supervision Agency and the State Regional Development Agency, the proportion of GPP is explored. The paper includes data collected in a survey of municipalities of Latvia aiming to identify the main factors that promote the development of GPP and the ones that are obstacles for implementing the GPP. The conclusions show that GPP is a relatively new activity in Latvia, especially in relation to sustainable consumption. Analytical, graphic, statistical research methods as well as other qualitative and quantitative research methods have been used in the research.

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Green public procurement as an initiative for sustainable consumption. An exploratory study of Spanish public universities

Cited by 81 publications

References 20 publications

Public healthcare practices and criteria for a sustainable procurement: A comparative study between UK and Italy

Public healthcare practices and criteria for a sustainable procurement: A comparative study between UK and Italy

Green Public Procurement in the Academic Literature

Green Public Procurement: Case Study of Latvian Municipalities

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