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Environmental Criteria in the Spanish Public Works Procurement Process

Fuentes-Bargues, José, González-Cruz, Mª, González-Gaya, Cristina·2017·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI 10.3390/ijerph14020204PMC PMC5334758
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Green Public Procurement (GPP) is defined as a process of contracting products, services, and works with the least possible damage to the environment during their life cycle. In order to improve the knowledge about GPP, a study of the use of environmental tendering criteria in the Spanish public construction sector has been performed. The results of this study show that the use of environmental criteria in Spanish public sector construction procurement is low in comparison to a certain group of countries, known as “Green 7”, in the European Union. Environmental criteria is the fourth criterion in importance, but its weight in the global of the process is much lower than other criteria such as price, memory of the construction process and the delivery time. National administrations use environmental criteria more frequently because they have more resources and staff training about environmental issues. Environmental criteria are more used in the tendering of civil projects and works whose budget exceeds ten million euro due to the environmental impact of these kind and/or size of projects.

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Figure 2 Number of tenders according to weighting of environmental criteria by the construction subsectors.
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Figure 3 Number of tenders according to environmental criteria weighting by the geographical scope of the administration.
Figure 3 Number of tenders according to environmental criteria weighting by the geographical scope of the administration.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 4 Number of tenders according to environmental criteria weighting by contract execution budget (in euros).
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Authors
Fuentes-Bargues, J., González-Cruz, M., & González-Gaya, C.
Affiliations
  • Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
  • Departamento de Ingeniería de Construcción y Fabricación, ETSII, UNED, C/Ciudad Universitaria S/N, 28040 Madrid, Spain
ORCID
Venue
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2017-02-18
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
204
ISSN
1660-4601
DOI
10.3390/ijerph14020204
PMC
PMC5334758
Cited by
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References
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Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Funders
  • Universitat Politècnica de València
  • UNED

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