Green Public Procurement at a Regional Level. Case Study

The Valencia Region of Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID17800795
AuthorsJosé Luís Fuentes Bargues (0000-0003-4877-3291, Universitat Politècnica de València, corresponding author), Pablo Ferrer Gisbert (0000-0001-6609-2081, Universitat Politècnica de València), Ma Carmen González-Cruz (0000-0002-6987-5732, Universitat Politècnica de València), María José Bastante-Ceca (0000-0001-5557-1335, Universitat Politècnica de València)
Year2019
Volume16
Issue16
Pages2936-2936
Publication date2019-08-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph16162936
PMID31443301
OpenAlexW2968335001
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited33

Research on current practices and the state of green public procurement enables the identification of areas that can be improved, as well as opportunities to improve the tendering procedures from an environmental point of view. To understand the behaviour of local, provincial, and regional administrations concerning green public procurement, a case study on the Valencia region of Spain is made. The Valencian region is one of the most important communities in terms of population, number of contracting authorities, and weight in the Spanish Gross Domestic Product. In this study, a total of 967 procedures were analysed from calls for tenders made by municipal, provincial, and regional administrations in2016 and 2017.The results of this study show that the use of environmental criteria is 19.7% and the average weight is 4.1 out of 100. The civil engineering subsector, more than the building subsector, employs environmental criteria, particularly in projects tendered by regional administrations, whereas for projects with large budgets the level of use is similar for both subsectors. It is necessary to encourage plans to improve Green Public Procurement (GPP) practices in the Valencian administrations, especially those with a local scope such as municipalities

Business · Call for bids · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Humanities · Population · Procurement · Regional science · Valencian · Public Procurement and Policy · Public-Private Partnership Projects · Marketing

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