Socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) is about achieving positive social outcomes in public contracts. By purchasing wisely, public buyers can promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, design for all, ethical trade, and seek to achieve wider compliance with social standards.
Public buyers across Europe are starting to take advantage of these opportunities and demonstrate real social impact in their purchasing. This is the case of City of Toledo, Spain, that required bidders to accept gender equality requirements when tendering out gardening services.
For more information on how the social aspects of the EU Public Procurement Directives were transposed at a national level, plus further good practices on SRPP, with a particular focus on access to public markets by social economy enterprises, see the report Making socially responsible public procurement work. 71 good practice cases.
Public buyers across Europe are starting to take advantage of these opportunities and demonstrate real social impact in their purchasing. The report "Making Socially Responsible Public Procurement Work: 71 Good Practice Cases (#WeBuySocialEU)" shows the diversity of the current application and the range of opportunities available to public buyers to use their procurement strategically to deliver real social outcomes, improving the quality of human lives in Europe and beyond. See the report here: https://op.europa.eu/s/oiNL