Fair procurement for the public sector - Workshops

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Fair procurement as a topic in education and training

Through workshops at administrative (higher) schools, FEMNET sensitizes future and experienced administrative employees to the impact potential of sustainable procurement.

Although sustainability is now firmly recognised as a principle for public procurement and has also been significantly strengthened under public procurement law, it still hardly occurs as an issue in the training of administrative employees. For this reason, FEMNET has been implementing several workshops at various administrative (higher) schools throughout Germany every year since 2018: At the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, the Technical School for Public Administration Cologne and the Mont Cenis Academy Herne. Workshops have also been held at the Berlin Academy of Administration and the University of Osnabrück.

In the long term, the workshops help to integrate their content step by step into procurement teaching and to supplement the seminar and lecture offer with the topic of ‘sustainable procurement’.

Contents of the courses

  • Social criteria in public procurement law
  • Working conditions in global value chains
  • Detection with ecological and social product seals
  • Best-practice approaches to socially responsible public procurement

Nationwide in use

Through the workshops, future and experienced administrative staff will be made aware of the impact potential of sustainable procurement. Practice-oriented information is provided on how social standards are taken into account in the administration and how procurement practice can be made socially equitable. In the long term, the workshops help to integrate their content step by step into procurement teaching and to supplement the seminar and lecture offer with the topic of ‘sustainable procurement’.

Feedback on the event:

‘Fair awarding is proper awarding, is economic award - cost-effectiveness in a comprehensive sense. Deliveries and services may only be awarded by skilled and knowledgeable staff.
Due to the increasing demands on the administration - both in terms of content and quantity - and the central contracting authorities, which are not yet widespread everywhere, employees must be able to deal with the extensive requirements of public procurement law.
The methods and experience of other contracting authorities presented by the speakers are very helpful in this regard.”Thomas Griewald,
Lecturer for basics of public procurement at the Berlin Academy of Administration