Isa-Maria Bergman, Motiva Ltd - Public Procurement as a Driver for Sustainability and Innovation
1. Public procurement as a driver for sustainability
and innovation
Gastro 2016
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2. Environmental effects of food services
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To influence what is procured
and how matters.
Requirements are allowed
and should be set in public
procurement.
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3. Sustainability in a wider context
• Other sustainability aspects:
• Health
• Combining healthy nutrition and environmental sustainability is possible, many
synergies
• Current Nordic and Finnish guidelines incorporate sustainability into dietary
guidelines
• Recommendation: should be used as absolute criteria in procurement of
catering services
• Social/ethical considerations: fair trade, inclusion, employment
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5. Public procurement as a strategic tool – key
enablers
• Long term strategic objectives for
public authorities
• The objectives should steer the focus
of the public authority ( CO2, organic,
land use…)
• Mandate to act and resources to
support change
• Dialogue and co-creation with market
stakeholders
• Monitoring and calculation of effects
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6. Best practices of strategic public procurement
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Change is enabled through small steps in everday practice
combined with bigger leaps in innovation projects
Holistic picture of pp as a tool for change in food and catering.
The environmental effects from professional kitchens/food service 2/3 stems from foodstuff and 1/3 energy use.
Env. Effects from foodstuff has to be tackled by making well informed choices according to the own objectives and priorities.
All Nordic countries have sustanable pp goals for food and catering.
Based largely on work done by Finnish Heart Association (Meals with heart symbol)
Recommendation: should be used as absolute criteria in procurement of catering services
includes: supply of compulsory meal components
CNQ for all meal components
consumer advice and guidance to healthy choices
rotation of menus
number of meals that has to meet CNQ
guidelines about adherence to criteria
The legal framework
The role of procurement criteria and market dialogue.
Case Copenhagen
Best practices on different angles are found in each Nordic country. These need to be multiplied. There would be a lot to gain from an intensified Nordic co-operation with public procurement entities. Many similarities in practices and market profile.