Buying for Social Impact
The project in a nutshell
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) is a project commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) to promote the use of social considerations in public procurement procedures.
Countries covered
The project covered 15 Member States: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden
Project team
The BSI Team consists of a network of National Public Procurement and Social Economy experts. The Team was coordinated by a Consortium led by the European Association for Information on Local Development (AEIDL),the European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (REVES), DIESIS COOP, Social Economy Europe (SEE) and the European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE).
#WeBuySocialEU
The project in a nutshell
The project is about collecting good practices and raising awareness on socially responsible public procurement.
Actors involved
The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) collected good practices on Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP). The main goal of this project, implemented by ICLEI, AEIDL and Social Economy Europe (SEE) as a subcontractor,
Objectives
The aim of the #WeBuySocial EU project is to promote the use of social considerations in public procurement the EU through the opportunities provided by the existing legal framework after the transposition of the Directive 2014/24/EU. The project also seeks to develop the access of social economy enterprises to public markets.
The publication includes 71 cases from 27 countries (22 Member States plus 5 non-EU countries). The good practices look at a diverse selection of products and services, as well as encompassing all aspects and phases of public procurement and a broad range of public buyers, ranging from local governments to central purchasing bodies and hospitals.
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