Implementation of Green Considerations in Public Procurement: A Means to Promote Sustainable Development
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Green considerations can be applied during all phases of the public procurement process: from the pre-award to the award and post-award phase. They can be included in technical specifications, award criteria, and contract performance clauses. Technical specifications provide a detailed description to the market of the good, work, or service to be procured. They constitute the basis for drafting green award criteria, which allow contracting entities to evaluate the received bids and award the contract. Contract performance clauses can also be used by public contracting entities to introduce environmental considerations in the procurement process. These clauses are based on the capacity of the winning bidder to perform the negotiated environmental criteria. Notwithstanding the importance of GPP, green considerations are seldom applied in public procurement. Reasons can be found in the lack of appropriate regulations at national and international level, or in the actual lack of training of the procurement workforce.
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Green public procurement has emerged as a strategic tool for sustainable development.
“Green public procurement (GPP) has emerged as a strategic tool for sustainable development.”
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GPP enables governments and public institutions to significantly contribute to achieving several sustainable development goals.
“Despite these challenges, the potential benefits of the GPP are undeniable, as it enables governments and public institutions to significantly contribute to achieving several sustainable development goals (SDGs) (Appolloni et al., 2019;Manta et al., 2022).”
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- Authors
- Appolloni, A., Coppola, M. A., & Piga, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Independent Researcher, Italy
- ORCID
- Appolloni, Andrea
- Venue
- Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
- Publisher
- IGI Global
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 23-44
- ISSN
- 2326-9162 (ISSN-L)
- 2326-9170
- OpenAlex
- W2914540292
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 14.13
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series (publishedVersion)
- Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Public Procurement and Policy
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Keywords
- green public procurement, public procurement, environmental considerations, technical specifications, award criteria, environmental regulation
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