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A practical introduction to Biodiesel and its use. Craske,R. Nottingham Energy Partnership, Nottingham (2006) |
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A useful introduction to Biodiesel and its use produced by Nottingham Energy partnership in 2006. [Open] |
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Aberdeen City Council (2003), Canny Buyer. Funded by Scottish Executive. |
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The guidebook is a wholly web-based document which fully utilises the power of hypertext. There is a core page which follows on page by page. From within the body of the core text, active links can be followed to pull in supplementary information. [Open] |
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Biodiversity Duty-guidance for Local Authorities. |
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The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act placed a duty on all public authorities to have regard to the conservation of Biodiversity from October 2006. Local Authorities have a key role to play through their role in:
- developing and influencing local policies and strategies
- planning and development control
- owning and managing their own estate
- procurement
- education, awareness raising and advisory functions.
Conservation of biodiversity has wider implications on creating sustainable communities. [Open] |
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Browne C et al (2002) Commodity Guidance. Environment Agency. |
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Guidance on commodities purchased by the Environment Agency has been produced in areas such as IT, Aggregates, Sand, Electronics etc. This has been researched from publicly available information on the life cycle processes, environmental and ethical impacts. Furthermore, potential mitigation measures are also identified for purchasers to action. [Open] |
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Browne C et al. Sustainable Procurement Guide. Environment Agency. |
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This sustainable procurement guide has been developed to provide a best practice temlate for the Environment Agency, which brings together best practice and latest R&D work. The guide should also provide a base for other organisations that are looking to enhance their sustainability within their procurement/supply chain activities. It can be used as a base to develop an approach that suits a particular organisations culture and values regarding environmental and social issues. [Open] |
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Buying a Better London |
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The Buying a Better London programme comprised a series of innovative yet pragmatic workstreams to investigate and develop the connection between local authority procurement and business communities. The planned outcomes of the programme were to:
- provide valuable information for procurement and regeneration practitioners
- identify innovative improvements to existing procurement practice and systems
- be used to improve procuremenr performance and contribute to the drive for efficiency savings and value for money
- feed into wider procurement and regeneration practice across the capital. [Open] |
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Buying a Better World. Forum for the Future (March 2008) |
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The new Forum for the Future report on sustainable procurement, Buying a better world, is deliberately detailed.
It's clear that many public sector buyers now feel that considering the sustainability goals of their organisation, when making spending decisions, makes sense. However, Forum for the Future's experiences with buyers over a number of years suggest that knowing how to do this in practice still remains a stumbling block.
"There needs to be a shift from having the right policies in place and knowing it's a good idea, to actually taking some bold spending decisions. Decisions that will contribute significantly to a better future for us all" (FfF)
The report goes into some detail about practical actions that buyers can take to improve the sustainability of any area of spend. The accompanying Sustainable Procurement Toolkit, is designed to help public sector organisations start taking action straight away. [Open] |
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Buying Green Procurement Guide |
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The European Commission have published ‘Buying Green’, a handbook on environmental public procurement. The handbook covers the essentials of green public procurement, including a step-by-step guide to green purchasing, the connection between public purchasing and the environment and the potential environmental benefits. [Open] |
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Cabinet Office (December 2006), Partnership in public services - An action plan for the Third Sector. |
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The third sector -from the smallest community group to the largest social enterprise or charity- has a long history of driving social progress, from campaigning on issues such as child poverty to helping communities come together to improve their neighbourhoods. Today, the third sector's commitment to enhancing the lives of individulas and communities can increasingly be realised by working together with central and local government to improve public services. This action plan sets out how the Government will seek further to strengthen this partnership, to ensure that our public services continue to improve and meet the changing needs of the communities they serve. [Open] |
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Carbon Trading Councils. |
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The Local Government Information Unit is inviting local authorities to take part in a voluntary carbon trading scheme.Carbon Trading is inevitable if we are going to meet challenging targets to reduce carbon emissions,so why not join now? The scheme will be launched in April 2008. By joining the first year of trading a local authority will be supported by LGiU as it experiences the opportunities and challenges of carbon trading first hand. [Open] |
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Cipressi G. From Green Procurement to Sustainable Public Procurement. Public Procurements and Standardization Affairs-ECVM.Belgium. |
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Code for Sustainable Homes |
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This Code was launched on the 13th December 2006 and is the national standard for the sustainable design and construction of new homes. It is a voluntary star rating system that shows the sustainability of a new home as a complete package. The Code is a flexible framework that enables developers to demonstrate the sustainability of new homes. For consumers the Code is a mark of quality, giving them information they can trust. The Code sets minimum standards for energy and water use at each level and, within England, replaces the EcoHomes Scheme, developed by the Building Research Establishment (BRE). [Open] |
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Communities and Local Government (October 2006), Strong and Prosperous Communities-The Local Government White Paper. Volume2. |
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Volume 2 of the White paper describes how the proposals set out in Volume 1 will change the way Government and iys patners tackle some of the biggest challenges for local services; community safety, health and well-being, vulnerable people, children, young people and families; economic development, housing, planning; climate change; and the role of the third sector. [Open] |
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Communities and Local Government (October 2006), Strong and Prosperous Communities-The Local Government White Paper.Volume1 |
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Good Public Services are essential to strong and prosperous communities. The quality of public services makes a huge difference to our lives. We all want to be able to send our children to a good school; to live in a safe,attractive and environmentally sustainable neighbourhood; to be able to get high quality health treatment when we need it; to enjoy good leisure facilities and to be able to travel easily to work, to the nearby shopping centre or see our friends and family.
The aim of the White paper is to give local authorities and other local public services the freedom and powers to meet the needs of vtheir communities and tackle complex cross-cutting issues like climate change, social exclusion, anti social behaviour and improved standards for children in care. [Open] |
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Defra (June 2006), Procuring the Future-Sustainable Procurement National Action Plan: Recommendations from the Sustainable Procurement Task Force. |
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In the 2005 Sustainable development Strategy, the UK Government stated its ambitious goal to be amongst the leaders in the EU on sustainable procurement by 2009. It recognised that curent initiatives alone would not deliver that. To this end the Sustainable procurement task force (SPTF), jointly funded by the Department for Environment Food and rural Affairs and HM Treasury, was set up under the direction of Sir Neville Simms, Chairman of International Power Plc and a leading private sector proponent of sustainability. The National Action Plan:'Procuring the Future', delivered its findings and recommendations on the 12th June 2006. [Open] |
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Defra(July2007) Sustainability Indicators in your pocket 2007. |
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The latest picture of the UK's environmental, social and economic wel-being were published on the 27th July 2007 and for the first time contain some measures of personal well-being in the population.
Sustainable Development Indicators in your pocket 2007 is the latest set of pointers to the state of the nation across a range of issues including health, housing, jobs, crime, education and environment, which are all important for our sustainability. [Open] |
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Delivering Affordable Housing. |
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The aim of this document is to support local authorities and other key players in delvering more high quality affordable housing within mixed sustainable communities by using all tools available to them. It outlines the affordable housing challenge that nees to be met, and provides information on how existing delivery mechanisms operate to help in delivery. [Open] |
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Energy Measures Report |
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Addressing Climate Change and Fuel Poverty – energy measures information for Local Government.
Action by local authorities is critical to the achievements of the Government’s climate change and energy objectives.
This Energy Measures Report, published on 18 September 2007, sets out the steps that local authorities can take to:
improve energy efficiency;
increase the levels of microgeneration and low carbon technologies;
reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and
reduce the number of households living in fuel poverty. [Open] |
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ESPO Catalogue for Sustainable Products and Services |
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Making the right procurement decisons can have far reaching enviromental, economic and social impacts. The volume of public sector procurement in the UK and wider EU is sufficiently large enough for it to be seen as an area that can help tackle a wide range of central policy issues, such as climate change, providing the right goods and services are procured.
The action plan produced by the Government's Sustainable Procurement Task Force identified a number of key commodity groups that would have the widest sustainability impact, and which would produce a step change in public sector procurement.
Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation has led the way in carrying out an EU compliant procurement initiative across the key commodity groups and in October 2007 launched a new 'Sustainable Products and Services Catalogue'.
For further information visit ESPO's website. [Open] |
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Getting Better all the time. |
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An independent assessment of local government improvement and its future prospects.(Jan 2008). A discussion paper with three aims:
-Functional, to map out what is already known about improvement
-Symbolic, to reflect back to central government how far local government and its partners have progressed, and
-Directional, give guidance on how local government can move beyond competence to 'excellence'. [Open] |
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Green, Healthy and Fair. A review of Government's role in supporting sustainable supermarket food. SDC (Feb 2008) |
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Supermarket food is inextricably linked to many of the toughest challenges faced by Britain today-from obesity and climate change to waste and global poverty. The food chain contributes around one-fifth of the total greenhouse gas emissions and is a major source of waste, much of it avoidable. Obesity and overweight currently costs the economy a staggering £10billion a year and is forecast to reach £50billion by 2050. Many peoples, livelihoods in rural communities, in the UK and in the developing world, depend upon access to, and a fair price from, the uk's food system. [Open] |
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Greening Growth. |
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This document from the Local Government Information Unit is about what local agencies, in particular, local government can do to engineer a transition to sustainable economic development. It is informed in no small part by examples of what local authorities are already doing. [Open] |
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HM Government (1999) A better quality of life-strategy for sustainable-development for the United Kingdom. Defra. |
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"The last hundred years have seen a massive increase in the wealth of this country and the well-being of its people. But focussing solely on economic growth risk ignoring the impact-both good and bad-on people and on the environment...........Now, as we approach the next century, there is a growing realisation that real progress cannot be measured by money alone......Talking about sustainable development is not enough. We have to know what it is, to see how our policies are working on the ground.........All this depends on devising new ways of assessing how we are doing. The indicators set out in this White Paper do this". Tony Blair March 2005. [Open] |
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HM Government (2005). One Future-Different Paths The UK’s shared Framework for Sustainable Development. |
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In 1999, the UK devolved many powers to new democratic bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since then, as new bodies have been creating our own solutions to the shared challenge of sustainable development. As different parts of the UK, our ability to set our own priorities and find our own answers is an important part of achieving sustainability.
The model for the UK's strategic approach to sustainable development reflects this new structure of decision making. Instead of one strategy document, we will each have our own. But there is still common challenges and goals. This framework document sets out what these are, and is an affirmation that, although we have devolved government, we will work to common goals without compromising the strengths which our diversity of approach offers. This framework demonstrates our commitment to work together-wherever we live in the UK- to meet our shared goals. [Open] |
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IdeA. (2003) Sustainability and Local Government Procurement. |
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This guidance draws on the experience of English and Welsh local authorities to provide practical advice on how a commitment to sustainable development can be turned into an effective procurement policy and strategy and built into processes. [Open] |
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LGiU. (2006) The LGIU E-GUIDE TO Local Sustainable Procurement. |
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Local authorities are large consumers and purchasers with significant purchasing power. They can have a real impact by purchasing responsibly, opting for goods with sustainable credentials, and by demanding goods with higher sustainability credentials through clear specifications. This guide covers a range of issues related to sustainable procurement and includes a range of useful Case Studies. [Open] |
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Local Authority Services and Biodiversity-Your statutory obligations. |
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This leaflet should act as a source of inspiration for how you can have clear regard for biodiversity in your work. The centrefold illustration provides a 'bird's eye view' of where biodiversity conservation is relevant across a wide range of local authority services and functions. [Open] |
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Local Government Sustainable Procurement |
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Incorporating the Local Government Response to the Report of the Sustainable Procurement Task Force and to the UK Government Sustainable Procurement Action Plan
Councils in England spend over £40 billion each year undertaking capital projects and buying in goods and services. Across the public sector as a whole the figure is closer to £150 billion. There is a compelling business case for making this procurement spend more “sustainable”.
This local government strategy has been drawn up in response to the recommendations of the Sustainable Procurement Taskforce delivered in June 2006 and in the light of the Government response and national action plan published in March 2007. It sets out local government’s strategic intent.
Following further consultation with local government and its partners, the strategy will be complemented by an implementation route map developed in conjunction with the Local Government Association which will describe the actions which need to be taken to realise the intent set out here.
The national goal is for the UK to become a leader in the EU on sustainable procurement by 2009. On the journey from shared ambition to achievement on the ground local government’s strategic intent is as follows. [Open] |
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McFarlane R et al (2006) The scope for using social clauses in UK Public Procurement. DTI Manufacturing Forum. London. |
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McFarlane, R. and Cook, A (2002) Achieving Community Benefits Through Contracts, Bristol. Policy Press/Joseph Rowntree Foundation. |
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Morgan,K. and Morley,A (2002) Relocalising the Food Chain:The Role of Creative Public Procurement. Cardiff University. |
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The origins of this report lie in our involvement with Powys Food Links (PFL), a remarkable and
inspirational group of people who became so concerned about the modern food system – and its
adverse effects on health, local economies and the global environment – that they decided to try to
change it. [Open] |
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Morton B et al (2002). Environmental Purchasing in Practice: guidance for organisations. IEMA. Lincoln. |
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Moschitz S.(2005) The CARPE Guide to Responsible Procurement. CARPE |
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The EUROCITIES campaign on responsible consumption aims at spreading the work and making cities more aware of the possibilities they have to become conscious consumers. The CARPE project is a first building block of this campaign. It has brought together 12 EUROCITIES members in exploring opportunities for responsible procurement.
This guide presents the CARPE findings and demonstrates how cities can make a difference at local, European and global markets while at the same time respecting the rules of international trade. [Open] |
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New Performance Framework for LAs and Local Authority Partnerships. |
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This document sets out the headline definitions of the 198 indicators which will underpin the new performance framework. This national indicator set has been developed as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 so that it reflects the Government's national priorities. Performance against each of the 198 indicators will be reported for every single tier and county council and Local Strategic Partnership. [Open] |
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New, S. Green, K. and Morton, B (1995), Green Supply: getting a grip with whole-life costs. Purchasing and Supply Management. |
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ODPM/LGA (2003) National Strategy for Local Government Procurement, London. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Association. |
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Local authorities provide leadership to their communities and are at the forefront of raising the quality of life for everyone. Together, they spend over £40bn per year, on our behalf, providing essential services to millions of people every day.
This National Procurement Strategy sets out how central and local government working together with partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors, intend to set about improving local government procurement. [Open] |
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OECD (0rganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) (2000) Greener Public Purchasing-issues and Practical Solutions. Paris. OECD |
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OGC (2000), Achieving Sustainability in Construction Procurement. London. Office of Government Commerce. |
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As a major construction client, Government has an important role in driving the sustainability agenda by improving its own performance and translating that into its demands on suppliers . While the agenda is growing rapidly and industry is without doubt taking bigger steps towards addressing sustainability in its performance, the Government as client is clearly in a position to drive forward the agenda more widely and more quickly. The recommendations set out in this report are fully endorsed by the Government Construction Clients' Panel and should now be adopted by Government clients with full implementation by March 2002. [Open] |
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OGC (2003) OGC buying Solutions. Quick wins |
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The 'Quick Wins' are a set of minimum environmental standards covering a range of commonly-purchased goods, including IT equipment, white goods, paper and construction materials. The standards relate to characteristics such as energy consumption, recycled content and biodegradability. [Open] |
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OGC (2003) Successful Delivery Toolkit |
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OGC's Successful Delivery Toolkit gathers together a wide range of resources to create a single source of guidance and on-line workbooks for use in OGC Gateway reviews, in programme and project management and to guide procurement processes. The toolkit provides a way for you to navigate to the resources you need on the OGC website such as software, consultancy, training and websites, designed to help your organisation achieve efficiency and excellence. [Open] |
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OGC (2003), Whole-life costing and Cost Management, Achieving Excellence in Construction, Procurement Guide No 7. London. Office of Government Commerce. |
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OGC/Defra (2003), Joint Note on Environmental issues in Purchasing. London. Office of Government Commerce and Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs. |
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This guide is intended to show how it is possible to give careful consideration to environmental issues during the procurement process. In, particular it aims to explain claerly the scope to take such isues into account within the framework of the Government's procurement policy and the EC procurement rules. [Open] |
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Partnership in Public Services |
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The Partnership in Public Services action plan has been delivered in response to the third sector's concern that insights that could transform people's lives are often lost because innovators struggle to find the advice, support and contacts they need to advance and grow their ideas. [Open] |
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Positively charged. Audit Commission. |
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This report presents the findings from the research into councils' use of their powers to charge for services.It will be of particular interest to councillors, in both their executive decision-making and scrutiny roles, and to finance and service managers with responsibility for the implementation of the councils' approach to charging. Audit Commission want to see councils review the approach to charging and to how they communicate with the public on their charging policies.For a summary click[open].
From 2009 the Audit Commission judgements on use of resources will take into account the extent to which councils are using charging to further their strategic objectives. [Open] |
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Prospectus 2008:the guide to improvement and efficiency support. |
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This prospectus builds on the Government's commitment to make it easier for councils and their partners to access the right support at the right time.It draws together comprehensively the improvement support that is available from Government to help local authorities and partners to meet the efficiency challenge, move beyond competence and imprtantly, deliver better public services. [Open] |
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Public Sector Sustainable Procurement Assessment Framework. Forum for the Future,Revised 2006. |
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Designed by Forum for the Furure, in conjunction with Value Wales, to help public sector organisations to determine the extent to which they are currently considering sustainable procurement within their organisation. It incorporates the recommendation of the UK Sustainable Procurement Task Force (UKSPTF)report 'Procuring the Future, June 2006, in respect of the Flexible Framework Tool' which is the method recommended by the UKSPTF for public sector scrutiny. |
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Sacks J. (2005) Public spending for Public Benefit- How the public sector can use its purchasing power to deliver local economic development. New Econmics Foundation. |
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'Public spending for Public benefit is a report, a lobbying tool, a new source of evidence, and a recommendation for future action based on what some people are doing already. It cuts to the heart of the matter:money and shows you why you can't afford not to care about how the public sector delivers goods and services. [Open] |
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Setting standard for waste and use of recovered materials in construction |
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The Government’s Sustainable Procurement Action Plan (2007) sets as a principal goal the procurement of sustainably built and managed properties and roads throughout the public sector. The Sustainable Procurement Action Plan now calls on public bodies to set key performance indicators and clear minimum standards in their tender invitations and contracts. Good practice includes requirements for site waste management and the use of recovered materials. This guide outlines the tools and information available, free of charge, to help build capacity within procurement teams in local authorities. Supporting tools are available from www.wrap.org.uk/construction [Open] |
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Small Business Friendly Concordat: Good Practice Guidance |
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Too many small businesses are missing out on government and local government contracts. Yet they are often key local employers and significant contributors to their local communities. For too long they have been squeezed out of contracts of all sizes. Fortunately some councils are addressing this problem and this guide to good practice is designed to make it easier for small businesses to supply goods and services to councils. [Open] |
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Social Enterprise and the Public Sector, a practical guide to law and policy |
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Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM) has produced a guide titled, “Social Enterprise and the Public Sector, a practical guide to law and policy”.
The Guide has been developed by SEEM’s BEST Procurement partnership which brings together public sector, social enterprise and technical support partners.
The guide identifies ways for the public sector to do business better with social enterprises whilst also delivering many of the authorities’ wider strategic policy objectives. For those looking for new approaches to commissioning and procurement of public services, it highlights practical paths through the current legal framework.
Evan Rees, SEEM’s CEO said:
“The social enterprise model has so much to offer the public sector. We share a public value ethos, we deliver sustainable solutions and we work with public sector partners to design highly innovative services that join together a range of policy aspirations.
Working with a variety of public and social enterprise sector partners, we have developed this guide to help the social enterprise movement and the public sector to find new ways to work together. We hope that this will enable the public sector to find new commissioning solutions and help the growth of social enterprises delivering high quality public services”.
The guide is intended to be a useful resource for:
• Those involved in commissioning and procurement in the public sector,
• Those involved in service development, economic development and strategic policy in the public sector,
• People working in social enterprises who are targeting the public sector as potential customers or are already working on them and
• Those who support social enterprises by providing business advice, training, networking and/or advocacy.
Mark Cook of Anthony Collins, author of the guide, says,
"Social enterprises have been at the forefront of public services for many years, but there is still a lack of common understanding of how to positively use the legal framework. At a time when ever more markets are opening up for social enterprises to participate in, this guide seeks to set out very simply what can be done to give social enterprises a fair chance in providing public services."
The guide covers the commissioning framework, EU procurement, issues for the public sector and for social enterprises. It is available in PDF format for downloading from the SEEM website, www.seem.uk.net.
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Social Issues in Public Procurement |
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The Government has a responsibility to create a fairer society for everyone, support those with a disadvantage and improve people’s well being and we also have a responsibility to use taxpayers’ money wisely. These responsibilities aren’t mutually exclusive and somewhere they can work in tandem is in public procurement. Round a third of public spending goes on purchasing goods and services, so it is important that considering social outcomes and achieving value for money fit together. We shouldn’t forget that the very principle of buying on a value for money basis isn’t about buying the cheapest; it is about taking account of the hole-life cost and wider factors such as social considerations. This practical guide draws on real-life examples to show public procurers how they can help address social concerns both in what we buy and in the way we expect suppliers to cater or our needs. [Open] |
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SOPO (1998), Environmental Purchasing Guide, Society of Procurement Officers. |
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The Society of Procurement Officers in Local Government (SOPO) engages in a range of activities to promote its strategic purchasing, contracting and supplies function. Representing over 2,700 members, SOPO provides area networks and forums and produces guidance and best practice. [Open] |
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Standard Template Documents. |
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The East Midlands Centre of Excellence (EMCE) in collaboration with other RCE's have established a series of standard template documents for use by local authorities.
These documents, which are all available in the startegies, policies and guidance sectio under Standard Template Documents, have been developed by various groups often using examples of what was considered existing good practice and refining these. [Open] |
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Sustainability & Local Government Procurement |
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This guide explains how local authorities can develop and implement a sustainable procurement policy and a risk-based strategy designed to tackle the categories of spending that have the greatest environmental and social impacts. It goes on to describe how sustainability can be built into the whole procurement cycle: identifying needs; appraising options; design and specification; supplier selection; tender evaluation; contract management and supplier development. [Open] |
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Sustainable Construction Technical Appendix. |
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The Kent Design Guide(Making it Happen-Sustainable Construction) was prepared for adoption as Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) for Kent and Medway Structure Plan in 2006 and subsequently for adoption by all LA's across Kent. [Open] |
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Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2007 |
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An update of the UK Government's sustainable development indicators
Indicators are integral to the communication of sustainable development. They help review progress, they highlight where the challenges are, and they help people to understand what sustainable development means globally, nationally, locally and for them as individuals. A new set of national indicators were outlined in the UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy, Securing the future, launched by the Prime Minister in March 2005. The following indicators were updated on 27 July 2007, and published as a free pocket booklet. [Open] |
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Sustainable Development Indicators in Your Pocket 2007 (Regional) |
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Regional versions of the UK Government’s indicators of sustainable development were first published in December 2005 to help provide a perspective of sustainable development in each region. They were last updated on 31st January 2008 to support the new UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Securing the Future’ (published in March 2005), there is a suite of 68 national sustainable development indicators. For 46 of these indicators, for which regional data are available, it has been possible to produce regional versions for the Government Office Regions.
The indicators highlight issues within the priority areas of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Natural Resources, and Sustainable Communities. [Open] |
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Sustainable Supply Chains |
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A leaflet detailing the help and advice that is specifically targeted at supply chain professionals who are looking for help and advice on sustainability issues within their supply chains. [Open] |
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The Third Sector's role in the delivery of local public services |
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DCLG briefing pack outlining a framework for strengthening the Third Sector's role in the delivery of local public services. [Open] |
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Waste and Resources Action Plan. (May 2006) Environmental benefits of recycling: An international review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector. Waste &Resources Action plan. Oxon. |
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A recurring theme in the debates that surround wasyte and resources management is te extent to which the rcycling of materials offer genuine benefits to the environment. often, critics of the policy drive toards grater recycling assert that the act of recycling may in fact have little or no benefit to the environment, suggesting that more energy may be used in getting materials to the recycling facility than is saved by the process of recycling. This study is the largest and most comprehensive international review of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) work on key materials that are often collected for recycling- paper/cardboard, plasics, aluminium, steel, glass, wood and aggregate.
The results are clear. Across the board, most studies show that recycling offers more environmental benefits and lower environmental impacts than other waste management options. [Open] |
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Working Neighbourhoods Fund. (Nov 2007) |
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As part of a concentrated drive to get people off welfare and into training and work the Government has decided to establish a new Working Neighbourhoods Fund which will focus on the most deprived areas and which will support local authorities and communities in their efforts to tackle worklessness and the other elements of deprivation.This new fund will replace Communities and Local Government's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and incorporate the Department for work and Pensions Deprived Areas Fund to create a single fund at local level. [Open] |
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