Buying for Social Impact (BSI) is a project commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) to promote the use of social considerations in public procurement procedures. Our objectives are:

• To encourage contracting authorities to use public procurement to pursue social goals;

• To Increase the capacity of social economy enterprises to take part in public procurement procedures and to access new markets.

The BSI project will produce several documents concerning each of the 15 countries targeted in the project (Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden) :

• Desk studies on how the new public procurement directive has been transposed at national level,

• Identification of good practices showcasing how the social aspects of the directive can be implemented in practice (more information here),

• A mapping of the capacity of social economy enterprises in accessing markets.

There will then be awareness raising and training events organised in each country.

Each partner is responsible to organise 3 events, ENSIE is in charge of The Netherlands, Romania and Hungary.

Partners

• European Association for Information on Local Development (AEIDL) - Project Leader

• European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (REVES),

• DIESIS COOP ,

• Social Economy Europe (SEE)

Project duration : 18 months starting 05/07/2018

The European Commission published a Brochure on the project as well as a Report presenting 22 examples of good practices, in the area of socially responsible public procurement.

ENSIEs partners organised 16 other events in 16 European countries and they produced the mapping and the matrix analysis for each of those countries as well as at the EU level. You’ll find here the Booklet with the presentations of each event as well as the Mapping and Matrix.

In the framework of the conferences cylce, the first event, organised by ENSIE, took place in Netherlands on June, 13th. It focused on the promotion of social considerations and relations with the third sector in Public Procurement. This event has been organised in partnership with de omslag.

You can find the booklet with all the conference presentations here (NL).

The mapping of the the ecosystem in which social economy enterprises operate, including access to public procurement contracts, in The Netherlands is here. And the Matrix explaining how social considerations have been embedded in the Dutch law transposing Directive 24/2014/EU is here.

ENSIE is proud to be part of the recently launched Buying for Social Impact project, commissioned by EASME and DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, which aims to encourage contracting authorities to use Public Procurement to pursue social goals.

The Buying for Social Impact project will help promote social considerations in Public Procurement procedures for Social Economy enterprises in 15 Member States. Buying for Social Impact project aims to foster Socially Responsible Public Procurement in the EU. Events in 15 Member States will be organised to increase the capacity of Social Economy enterprises to take part in public procurement procedures.