Following our first sustainable procurement webinar on the planning stage of a competition, we held the next instalment in the series, where we considered putting sustainable procurement into practice. We put the Procurement Act 2023 through its paces and considered how procurement structures, conditions of participation and award criteria can deliver up an organisation's social and environmental priorities.
Sustainable procurement is a mindset focused on the entire life cycle of a contract and the environmental and social impacts of purchasing activity.
In our previous webinar we considered how to get internal buy-in to sustainable procurement and implement the mindset as a matter of policy. In this session we looked at how the processes in the Procurement Act 2023 can be used to achieve the right outcomes for organisations, reflecting on examples across the public sector and touching on relevant case law from the previous regime.
The webinar covered in particular:
- How do you implement your sustainability policy across your procurements?
- Can the design of my procurement process make an impact?
- How can conditions of participation be used to achieve organisational priorities?
- How can my organisation set award criteria that will deliver up meaningful sustainability improvements?
- Social value, sustainable procurement, core requirements – how do I balance everything in a proportionate way?
This webinar is for commercial and procurement professionals across the public sector and aims to facilitate the sharing of best practice. The session was be delivered by Trowers & Hamlins colleagues in the Public Procurement and Energy and Sustainability teams.
