Isa-Maria Bergman, Motiva Ltd - Public Procurement as a Driver for Sustainability and Innovation

Public procurement as a driver for sustainability and innovationGastro 2016Isa-Maria Bergman, Motiva Oy

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.

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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Public procurement as a means for change• Kuva

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

Best practices of strategic public procurement

Change is enabled through small steps in everday practice combined with bigger leaps in innovation

projects

Food