As green public procurement will play a key role in the EU’s efforts to become a more resource-efficient economy, an EU-funded initiative has introduced a search engine and a repository to gather data, share information, and match the needs of public procurers and SMEs in embracing renewable energy sources (RESs).
The EU-funded XPRESS project (Support for Public Procurements to facilitate the collaboration between SMEs and public sector for the development and adoption in renewables in regions) will run until August 2022 and will support public procurement to facilitate cooperation between SMEs and the public sector for RES adoption across the EU. It has launched a search engine enabling SMEs to access tenders related to RESs and a database containing previous RES calls for tenders intended for public authorities keen on adopting RES technologies through GPP. Read more here.