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Why is a strategic approach to public procurement important? Public procurement has a significant leverage effect on the economy and in addressing social and environmental challenges. The European directives identify this strategic approach to public procurement. The effectiveness of public spend

In 2017 In 2017, the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE carried out a survey to map the current state of sustainable public procurement in Finnish municipalities. Information was gathered using questionnaires, interviews, document analysis (strategies, guidelines, invitations to tender published in

The KEINO Competence Centre for Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement surveyed in 2018 the solutions that are innovative/new to the procurer and the procurement thereof in Finland. The content below is based on the survey. Nearly 30% of the respondents who took part in the survey carried out

The KEINO Competence Centre for Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement surveyed in 2018 the solutions that are innovative/new to the market and the procurement thereof in Finland. The content below is based on the survey. Of the procured solutions, roughly 4% were completely new to the market

Towards the end of 2018, the KEINO Competence Centre surveyed the current state of innovative and sustainable public procurement. In the first half of 2018 in the HILMA advertising channel, a questionnaire was sent to people who had published notices to determine 1) the prevalence of new innovative

Innovativeness in public procurements is manifest in different ways during the different stages of procurement (see Figure 1 below). In the procurement process , the opportunity to innovate can be taken into account in the procurement preparations, when specifying the object of procurement as well

Finland uses approximately EUR 35 billion on public procurement each year, yet the state of strategic procurement management has never been studied before. KEINO conducted a survey in June–August 2018 to map the current state of the strategic management of sustainable and innovative public