Moving towards sustainable performance-based procurement in the Western Cape

Worldwide, governments are strategically rethinking the way they are spending taxpayers’ money. In a resource constrained world, procuring sustainably is an important tool for making the best use of public coffers, but also for shifting markets towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Sustainable or strategic public procurement is about ensuring that the products and services purchased by governments are as sustainable as possible. This means reducing environmental impact, generating positive social and economic impact in an affordable way. In so doing, it drives and creates new markets for innovative climate-friendly technologies, goods, services and infrastructure that generate co-benefits for society.

This report is a guidebook specifically focused on the implementation of performance-based procurement for advancing Sustainable Public Procurement in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. It highlights the challenges and barriers, and provides tools and approaches to tackle these challenges. It draws on both local and international experience and case studies.

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Moving towards sustainable performance-based procurement in the Western Cape

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