Circular Procurement for Cities
  • Circular public procurement: a framework for cities
    • Disclaimer
  • INTRODUCTION
  • How to use this framework
  • Framework overview
  • The benefits of circular public procurement
  • PART 1: SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS
    • Set and communicate the level of ambition
      • Set the level of ambition
      • Communicate your ambition
    • Build internal capacity and collect data
      • Learn from other cities
      • Form a working group
      • Align and build internal capacity
      • Conduct market research and collect data
      • Conduct market dialogues
    • Identify opportunities for pilots
      • Identify opportunities for pilots
  • PART 2: ADAPT CRITERIA AND REQUIREMENTS
    • Develop circular criteria
      • Criteria for products
      • Criteria for food
      • Criteria for plastic packaging
      • Criteria for mobility
      • Criteria for buildings
  • PART 3: RUN A CIRCULAR TENDER PROCESS
    • Assess needs and review assets
      • Assess needs and consider the use of services
      • Review assets
      • Assess risks and opportunities
    • Engage relevant departments
    • Adapt selection and evaluation
      • Evaluation and performance review
      • Adapt the tender procedure
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  • PART 4: MAINSTREAM CIRCULAR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
    • Learn and improve
    • Support innovation and emerging innovators
    • Align business support with circular objectives
    • Create an enabling regulatory environment
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • Thank you
    • Core team and contributors
  • Glossary
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  1. PART 4: MAINSTREAM CIRCULAR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Align business support with circular objectives

Supporting businesses in your city to become more circular

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Your city government can encourage businesses to scale up their circular economy activities. Understanding the challenges that businesses currently face, and identifying solutions to address these challenges, is the first step in the process to enable more businesses to become circular. By aligning business support programmes, capacity building, and training with your city’s circular economy objectives, your city government can support businesses in their transition towards more circular practices.

Questions to consider:

  • What kind of support do startups, SMEs, and businesses need to adopt more circular practices?

  • Can your city government leverage the support or resourcing from existing programs that work with startups, SMEs and the business community?

  • Are your city government’s suppliers (SMEs and businesses) aware of the support programmes already available to them? If not, how could you support raising awareness with your suppliers?

Examples

Resources

1) is providing advice, grants, and connections to small-and-medium sized businesses in London to help them embed the principles of the circular economy into their business models and grow sustainably and responsibly. In 2021, ReLondon awarded two rounds of grants, from the Mayor of London’s Green New Deal fund, to help SMEs recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19 by integrating circularity into their businesses.

2) Through the (BRPCE), the government of the Brussels-Capital Region has defined a framework to encourage the transition towards a circular economy in Brussels. As part of the BRPCE, the portal provides information to entrepreneurs and businesses about the various support programmes available to help them deliver change on the ground.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s provides examples from around the world of businesses and policymakers implementing circular economy practices.

Circle Economy’s provides a collection of business and government case studies from around the globe.

ReLondon
Brussels Regional Programme for a Circular Economy
be circular
case study library
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