Tag: Public Procurement Act

• Public procurement to focus on long-term value, instead of short-term price tag

  With 2.5 trillion euros on the table, public procurement can be a powerful tool for decarbonisation – and the European Commission is finally unleashing it. For the first time, EU procurement rules could consider more than only the upfront price tag, setting up Europe’s industries for a low-carbon future with benefits for taxpayers, the environment, citizens, and businesses. However, today’s draft Public Procurement Act leaves room for improvement, ECOS says, because it proposes to repeal existing sectoral legislation in key sectors, replacing it by a generic empowerment to procurers to include mandatory green public procurement rules.