Press release | 17.06.2016
Green Public procurement award
To mark the highlight of the four years project Green ProcA on green public procurement (GPP), the Conference and GPP Award Ceremony was held at the Climate Alliance Brussels Office yesterday.
Frankfurt/Brussels. To mark the highlight of the four years project Green ProcA on green public procurement (GPP), the Conference and GPP Award Ceremony was held at the Climate Alliance Brussels Office yesterday. After the vivid discussion among procurement stakeholders from Eastern Europe and Italy about the barriers and solutions of ecological public purchasing, twelve European projects were rewarded due to their outstanding local efforts on green public procurement. Thomas Pensel of the Energieagentur Rheinland-Pfalz honoured the winning organisations and stressed their forerunner role as best practice examples in their subject area: "As a means of innovative procurement all of the winners of the EU GPP Award showed that environmental purchasing plus considerable savings can be achieved at the same time".
The winners in the three size categories are the following:
Up to 10,000 inhabitants
GOLD
Sustainable Salve l Municipality of Salve, Italy
SILVER
Renewable energy and energy saving l Municipality of Melpignano, Italy
BRONZE
Energetic Development of the Public Buildings of the City Municipality of Ajak l City Municipality of Ajak, Hungary
Honourable Mention
Renovation and reconstruction of heat supply systems and heating systems in 'Bozhura Furnadzheva' kindergarten and nursery l Bratsigovo Municipality, Bulgaria
10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
GOLD
Construction of a biomass-fired CHP plant as the primary heat source in the heating system of the city of Lębork l City of Lębork, Poland
SILVER
Fully autarchic energy supply of electricity and heat from regenerative energies l Stadtwerke Weilheim i.OB Kommunalunternehmen, Germany
BRONZE
LED lamps for the energy-related renovation of the street lighting l Technische Betriebe Dormagen AöR - Straßen (TBD), Germany
Honourable Mention
Modernization of public lighting in the Municipality of Prešov using the LED technology l Mesto Prešov, Slovakia
More than 100,000 inhabitants
GOLD
Video interpretation service l Bundesbeschaffung GmbH (BBG), Vienna, Austria
SILVER
GPP in the Covenant of Mayors actionsl Municipality of Turin, Italy
BRONZE
Network management for the promotion of the A.P.E. projectl Turin Metropolitan City, Italy
Honourable Mention
Increase energy efficiency in +30 blocks of flats (Group I-VII) Cluj Municipality, Romania l Development Department and EU Projects, Ciytown Hall Cluj Municipality, Romania
Further information and photos
gpp-proca.eu/eu-gpp-award/ceremony
Contact
Christiane Kretschmer, T. +49-69-717139-20, c.kretschmer(at)climatealliance.org
Dr. Andreas Kress, T. +49-69-717139-33, a.kress(at)climatealliance.org
