Presentations from Final SPICE Webinar Now Available
The eighth, and final, SPICE project webinar took place on 30 August 2018. It presented the research done by the project throughout its two-year lifespan and the recommendations drafted on that basis. Presentations Jos van Vlerken (City of Copenhagen) -...
The SPICE Final Event Presents the Project’s White Paper – A Customisable Tool Designed for Public Procurers Across Europe
Procurement procedures, approaches, policy, legislation… – it’s easy to get confused and overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information. In order to help procurers in their daily work, the SPICE project has spent the past two years trying to shed some light on these...
SPICE Recommendations Now Available
As the SPICE project draws to a close, the project team is proud to publish the final results of its two year work - a series of recommendations and analysis, which are contained in the report D3. These will, hopefully, give public procurers ideas on improving and...
SPICE Workshop in Hamburg Analyses Best Practices and Identifies Steps Forward
Entering the Hamburg City Hall on 3 May 2018, the SPICE team stood between the past and the future. On one hand, the location was evidence of the prominent role that city administrations have played in the past, in particular, in the lives of their...
Brochures on best practices and capacity building published
The SPICE project finalised two brochures - one on best practices and one on capacity building - at the beginning of May 2018. The Best Practices brochure concisely presents some of the best practices in procurement that were collected throughout the SPICE project...
SPICE Webinar | The Pros and Cons of Joint Procurement
As Folkert Bloembergen, one of the speakers at the 7th SPICE webinar on 22nd February, remarked: “Making the innovation leap together remains a challenge”. That’s why the objective of the SPICE project to bring together public authorities to share their experiences in...
Procuring Innovation in the Urban Mobility Context – the Legal and Technical Aspects
What are the legal and technical aspects of procuring innovation in the urban mobility context? This is what the SPICE workshop on 17th January in Haarlem, the Netherlands, hosted by Rijkswaterstaat, aimed to find out. The workshop, attended by around...
Presentations from SPICE webinar “Boost for Clean Vehicles by Public Procurement”
The European Commission has singled out decarbonisation as a key objective for the European Union and in November last year it published a proposal on the Clean Vehicle Directive, aiming to boost the electrification of European mobility. For public authorities,...
Procurement of Clean, Electric Vehicles Discussed in Recent SPICE Webinar
The European Commission has singled out decarbonisation as a key objective for the European Union and in November last year it published a proposal on the Clean Vehicle Directive, aiming to boost the electrification of European mobility. For public authorities,...
D4.1 Best Practices in Common Procurements
The SPICE project deliverable D4.1 is now added to the SPICE library. The aim of the deliverable D.4.1 is to give a first overview on joint procurement and give a definition of the concept of Common Buyers Groups in the context of SPICE. The report draws the big...
