Greening non-product-related procurement – when policy meets reality

Mosgaard, Mette; Riisgaard, Henrik; Huulgaard, Rikke Dorothea

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.08.018

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“…Mosgaard et al (2013) conducted semi-structured interviews along with a review of procurement procedures, a review of supplier assessment systems and a review of 17 Danish companies.…”

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

Pacheco-Blanco

Ceca

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Mosgaard et al (2013) conducted semi-structured interviews along with a review of procurement procedures, a review of supplier assessment systems and a review of 17 Danish companies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Pacheco-Blanco

Ceca

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Faith-Ell et al (2006) concluded that practical implementation of environmental criteria is a daunting task mainly due to lack of information and inability to supervise after the contract award. Mosgaard et al (2013) emphasized the need for more simple universal tools such as Eco labels in promoting sustainable procurement. Moreover, Hwang and Ng (2013) emphasized the importance of strengthening the knowledge areas related to green project management.…”

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Sustainable procurement in the Canadian construction industry: current practices, drivers and opportunities

Ruparathna

Hewage

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Supply chain management of GPP considered many factors like corporate-social-responsibility [22][23][24][25], supporting the development of small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) [15] and so on, but GPP pay more attention to the environment influence of the purchasing behavior. As a theme of GPP [5], measurement is the inevitable matter to promote GPP while the existing discussion focused on qualitative evaluation [17][18][19][20][21]. Furthermore, the lack of standardization of the quantitative evaluation system hindered the development of GPP, because government procurement practitioners are not environmental experts who find it difficult to evaluate which product is greener.…”

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“…GPP has developed the ability for green supplies and markets [6], and also stimulated sustainable behaviors of the individuals [18]. Procurement could accumulate the environmental benefits from small to large [20] while GPP is a habit of the purchasers in seven subsidiaries of a Nordic electricity producing company [21]. However, a survey related to eight product categories and four European Union (EU) member states showed that public procurement was more effective in improving social responsibility than environmental protection [22].…”

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System Establishment and Method Application for Quantitatively Evaluating the Green Degree of the Products in Green Public Procurement

Chu

Mei

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:The government green purchase is widely considered to be an effective means of promoting sustainable consumption. However, how to identify the greener product is the biggest obstacle of government green purchase and it has not been well solved. A quantitative evaluation method is provided to measure the green degree of different products of the same use function with an indicator system established, which includes fundamental indicators, general indicators, and leading indicators. It can clearly show the products' green extent by rating the scores of different products, which provides the government a tool to compare the green degree of different products and select greener ones. A comprehensive evaluation case of a project purchasing 1635 desk computers in Tianjin government procurement center is conducted using the green degree evaluation system. The environmental performance of the products were assessed quantitatively, and the evaluation price, which was the bid price minus the discount (the discount rate was according to the total scores attained by their environmental performance), and the final evaluation price ranking from low to high in turn is supplier C, D, E, A, and B. The winner, supplier C, was not the lowest bid price or the best environmental performance, but it performed well at both bid price and environmental performance so it deserved the project. It shows that the green extent evaluation system can help classify the different products by evaluating their environment performance including structure and connection technology, selection of materials and marks, prolonged use, hazardous substances, energy consumption, recyclability rate, etc. and price, so that it could help to choose the greener products.

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Greening non-product-related procurement – when policy meets reality

Cited by 31 publications

References 27 publications

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

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

Sustainable procurement in the Canadian construction industry: current practices, drivers and opportunities

System Establishment and Method Application for Quantitatively Evaluating the Green Degree of the Products in Green Public Procurement

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