Green Public Procurement at a Regional Level. Case Study: The Valencia Region of Spain

Bargues, José Luís Fuentes; Gisbert, Pablo Ferrer; González-Cruz, Ma Carmen; Ceca, María José Bastante

doi:10.3390/ijerph16162936

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“…Albeit briefly described as a legal possibility and a supporting GPP tool in Section 3.3.2, their full potential for GPP can only be reached when public procurers possess a certain level of knowledge on what the environmental concerns regarding particular purchases are. Fourthly, for GPP to become widely used, it should firstly enter the procedures public procurement professionals are familiar with and accustomed to, hence the traditional open tendering procedure and the insertion of environmental criteria in technical specifications, award criteria, and conditions of the execution of contract [57]. Lastly, for GPP to have a significant positive environmental impact, it has to be designed properly and executed in an appropriate manner [58].…”

Section: The Nature Of Gpp-how Can Environmental Concerns Enter the Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such a broad array of possibilities for public authorities to determine the characteristics of the sought sustainable purchase should facilitate the inclusion of such requirements in public purchasing processes, especially where supported by practical examples [15] (pp. [57][58][59][60][61][62]). Yet, public authorities have not used them as a common practice across the EU [81] (pp.319-320), [84], [103] (p.9).…”

Section: Public Procurement Directives As a Source Of Legal Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Monitoring Report of the Directive 2009/33/EC [115] showed that the actual implementation of the directive provisions depended on the policy priority of the entity that is procuring the product, service, and/or works [114] (pp. [56][57], which in turn influenced the positive environmental impact of the Directive in question. The report laid out the inherent shift in perspective that is needed when evolving from the traditional price-focused public procurement towards environmentally sustainable public procurement under the MEAT criteria, where the life-cycle cost of the product in question should prevail.…”

Section: The Experience With Mandatory Sectoral Gpp Rulesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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More Than a Nudge? Arguments and Tools for Mandating Green Public Procurement in the EU

Mélon¹

2020

Sustainability

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The present research paper analyses the EU general and mandatory sectoral legal framework on public procurement, arguing for its inhibiting effect on the EU-wide uptake of green public procurement. It explores de jure and de facto barriers to green public procurement, motivated by the need for a change in the business world towards more sustainable practices through preferably mandatory legal changes of EU corporate law. As the public procurement represents a strong nudge for a qualitative change in private market demand, accounting for a minimum of 12% of the national gross domestic product, it should become environmentally sustainable itself and guide markets through the qualitative and quantitative changes on the demand side. Given the complexity of the current legal framework and the novelty of the approach to public procurement as a strategic tool for the achievement of sustainable production and consumption, a better defined and clear legislative approach is called for, possibly in a mandatory form, clarifying the obligation of public procurers to account for sustainability in their practices, especially as regards incorporating environmental concerns in their purchasing activities. In its current form, the EU legislative public procurement framework entails a seemingly permissive attitude towards green public procurement, hampered in practice by the existing legal institutes in the field, which hamper the strategic use of public procurement and thereby its influence on sustainability on the private markets.

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Section: The Nature Of Gpp-how Can Environmental Concerns Enter the Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Public Procurement Directives As a Source Of Legal Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Experience With Mandatory Sectoral Gpp Rulesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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More Than a Nudge? Arguments and Tools for Mandating Green Public Procurement in the EU

Mélon¹

2020

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“…The authors state that it is essential for the success of PPPs to align their business principles to government objectives. Fuentes- Bargues et al (2019) researched current practices and the state of green public procurement enabling the identification of areas that can be improved, as well as opportunities to improve the tendering procedures from an environmental point of view. In total, 967 processes were analyzed for calls made by municipalities for the period 2016 -2017.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of selected determinants of public procurement in the health sector

Gavurová¹,

Mikeska²,

Huculová³

2020

RAMP

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This article aims at anexaminationof the impact of the number of public procurement tenders in the healthcare sector on the final purchase price. We used the data from 1544 public contracts related to the acquisition of health technologies for the years 2014-2017. The highest number of public contracts was reached at level of 501 in 2014, and the lowest number was 238 in 2017. The highest average value of estimated and final prices was found in 2015. The proportion of tenders submitted with only one tenderer was over 39 %. For the analysis, we used a generalized linear model and quantile regression. The results showed that, as the number of bids increased by one unit, the ratio of final and projected price on average would change 0.975 times, which means an increase in savings by 2.45%. Using quantile regression, we modelled the influenceof the explanatory variables on the individual quantiles of the explained variable instead of the conditional mean. The aim was to determine the impact of the number of proposals at everyovercharge level. As the order value of the quantile increases, the effect of offers on generating savings in public procurement is gradually decreasing. For more than 40 % of the most overpriced orders, the number of offers does not have a statistically significant effect on the size of the savings. With 25 % of the most economical orders with an increasing number of bids by one unit, savings of 4.77 % were achieved. However, increasing the number of procurement contracts to create savings in public procurement may develop differently over time. By applying the generalized linear model, we found that in 2014 the increase in the number of offers by one unit had an impact on the average increase in public procurement savings of 7.15 %. In 2015, this impact fell to 1.59 %. In 2016, the growth in the number of proposals did not have a statistically significant impact on the average increase or decrease in savings. In 2017, this value increased slightly above 1.96 %. Public acquisition processes will continue to be a critical pointfor the efficient allocation of public resources.

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“…A first observation on the respective literature is that if some authors address the problem theoretically or globally (Testa et al, 2016a;Igarashi et al, 2015), others address the problems at national / regional / division level (Walter and Brammer, 2009;Michelsen et al, 2009;Varnäs et al, 2009;Fuentes-Bargues et al, 2019;Zhu et al, 2013;Tessema and Marsille, 2009;Preuss, 2009;Appolloni et al, 2014;Aldenius and Khan, 2017;Smith and Terman, 2016), so that, finally, some give their publications important international accents (Brammer and Walker, 2011;Nissinen et al, 2009).…”

Section: Review Of the Scientific Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Legislative Means Aimed at Stimulating Green Procurement in the Public Sector. A Critical Case Study of Romania

Bostan¹,

Lazãr²,

Asalos³

2020

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In a framework characterized by a relatively high degree of institutionalization, such as that of the European Union, it became difficult to imagine that the problem of Green Public Procurement (GPP) could surpass it. The special importance of the GPP, due to its favorable effects on the sustainable development, conservation / improvement of the environment, human health, etc., to which other positive social-economic implications are added, makes it a distinct subject of both EU strategies / policies, and the related legislative system. In this respect, several directives, decisions and recommendations operate, which have obviously made a strong imprint on the policies and legislation of the Member States. Starting from the European requirements in the field, but also taking into account the regulatory framework applicable in Romania, our approach tackles legal instruments designed to stimulate GPP in the public sector, highlighting the dysfunctions in the field of green procurement special legislation. We consider here some delays in the application of the European legislation and related to the appearance of the guide containing the minimum criteria regarding environmental protection, etc., but also the existence of loopholes or contradictions in the legislative texts, as well as post-adoption deadlocks. In order to achieve the purpose of the paper, which is to demonstrate that the legislative means are capable of stimulating green procurement in the public sector, we carry out a review of the scientific literature, after which we focus on the European legislative system related to GPP. We then insist on the elaboration and implementation of national legal instruments aimed at stimulating the GPP and the arguments for strengthening the GPP system by regulatory means. Lastly, we saved an important part, that of the description of the special legal source intended to regulate the GPP in the national public sector, which is characterized by sluggishness, loopholes, post-adoption deadlocks. Our approach, in the structure shown, demonstrations that the regulatory body regarding the Romanian GPP system is characterized by inefficiency. According to the authors, the solution is implementing some legislative changes, strictly in accordance with the best European practices.

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Green Public Procurement at a Regional Level. Case Study: The Valencia Region of Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

More Than a Nudge? Arguments and Tools for Mandating Green Public Procurement in the EU

More Than a Nudge? Arguments and Tools for Mandating Green Public Procurement in the EU

Evaluation of selected determinants of public procurement in the health sector

Legislative Means Aimed at Stimulating Green Procurement in the Public Sector. A Critical Case Study of Romania

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