| Legal and Policy Framework | Market Capacity & Cost/ Benefit assessment | Environmental Standards | ||
| Professional appraoches | Raising Awareness | Monitoring | ||
Green Public Procurement Legal and Policy Framework
A clear framework with understandable definitions, targets and priorities helps public entities achieve their goals. Different national approaches show that comprehensive and well-aligned guidance is instrumental in reaching environmental objectives.
Case studies
| Austria (OBBInfra) | Hungary | |
| Austria (ASFINAG) | Korea | |
| Austria (naBe-Aktionsplan) | Portugal | |
| Belgium | Sweden | |
| Canada |
Understanding Market Capacity and Assessing Costs and Benefits
Stakeholders and suppliers must be consulted in order to properly assess which green solutions are available and gauge the level of supply. Country case studies provide valuable guidance on ways of engaging with the supply market. They also demonstrate how authorities can use life-cycle costs evaluation in their cost-benefit analysis.
Case studies
| Austria (OBBInfra) | Netherlands |
| India | Slovak Republic |
| Italy (IEMS) |
Introducing Environmental Standards in Procurement
Contracts based on performance, and payment, helps green procurement stay relevant to the market. Credible standards make it easy to identify which products or services count as green, such as eco-labels.
Case studies
| Austria (Okokauf) | Italy (IEMS) |
| Austria (ASFINAG) | Italy (Desktop) |
| Canada | Korea |
| Denmark | Netherlands |
| Estonia | People's Republic China |
| France | Sweden |
| Hungary | United States |
Professionalising Green Public Procurement
The successful implementation of green public procurement requires specialised knowledge and skilled multidisciplinary teams. The cases detail a range of the professionalisation tools (i.e. manuals and training) that help the public sector to use procurement strategically.
Case studies
| Austria (Okokauf) | Canada |
| Austria (Vienna Thinks Future) | Slovak Republic |
| Belgium |
It takes a focused effort to get across the message that greening procurement matters. Case studies show communication strategies, such as encouraging businesses to develop green solutions, and how to increase citizens’ trust in green policies.
Case studies
| Austria (Okokauf) | Belgium |
| Austria (OBBInfra) | Hungary |
| Austria (ASFINAG) | India |
| Austria (Vienna thinks future) | Portugal |
Monitoring Green Public Procurement
Monitoring serves to promote the benefits of green public procurement as well as provide valuable feedback for policy makers on which policies work and which need rethinking.
Case studies
| Austria (naBe-Aktionsplan) | Italy (Desktop) |
| Canada | Korea |
| France | Portugal |
| India | Sweden |
| Italy (IEMS) | United States |
Background
The case studies were collected by the OECD in co-operation with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in 2013 and 2014 and submitted by senior public procurement experts from OECD and key partner countries, mainly through meetings of the Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement (11-12 February 2013, 7-8 November 2013 and 18 June 2014) and will be presented to the Public Governance Committee in November 2014.
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