Greening of contracts

This web section includes information on the greening of contracts and on reference manuals for the gradual greening of procurement processes within our own companies and franchises of the AMB and city councils.

About greening

At present the Plan for the greening of contracts at the AMB is being drafted, to meet axis 4 of the PSAMB (Production and consumption means). This plan will be the roadmap that will govern the inclusion of environmental criteria (low carbon criteria in some cases) into the technical bidding specifications for future contracts with the AMB.

Up until now, four bidding specifications have been made greener, and can be checked out in the Contractor's profile:

  • NitBus Service.
  • Procurement of multi-task machinery (computing).
  • Metropolitan Programme for Sustainability Education.
  • Management of the composting plant in Sant Cugat del Vallès.
Projects and memberships

The AMB participates in three European projects for the greening of public contracts.

  • GPP 2020

    A European initiative that promotes public contracting of low carbon emissions, co-funded by the Smart Energy for Europe Programme. A green contract and the reduction of CO2 emissions obtained will be tracked.

    Within this project, the AMB has replaced 24 pieces of multifunction computer equipment (photocopier, scanner, printer, etc.), representing threefold savings: environmental, energy and financial, and it has been defined as a case study by the GPP2020: further information (cat).

    GPP2020 web

  • GPP Helpdesk

    European initiative for good practices in public contracting.

    Greening the maintenance contract for metropolitan parks has been a way to actively participate in this greening initiative. The work done by the AMB led to a special mention in the GPP News-Alert magazine:

    The City of Barcelona makes firm commitment to SPP

  • SPP green procurement regions

    Green procurement project coordinated by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, in the framework of the 2020 horizon project ‘Innovative Energy Solutions'. It allows for participation in public green purchases done voluntarily, obtaining technical and legal support for internal procedures, etc.

    Web SPP Regions

    Web ICLEI

  • GPP Helpdesk

    Contact

Marc legal

Per conèixer els detalls del marc legal de la introducció de criteris ambientals en la contractació pública consulteu l'apartat d'ambientalització de contractes de l'Àrea d'Administració.

Ambientalització de contractes