The transformation of the economic model, with the circular economy and sustainability as central axes, is already a reality, both in the private and public sectors.
Social responsibility, starting in the 1980s, which was based on the premise that companies and organizations could not function as entities isolated from society, has served as a prelude to all the sustainability policies that have followed, in response to the urgency of the planet.
In this sense, large companies already prepare their sustainability reports. In this way, they are able to measure the impact of their activity in relation to this variable, but they also reflect on their role in relation to many others, giving them greater or lesser priority depending on their dedication, the place or time of the organization.
Public organizations, for their part, do not currently have any law that explicitly obliges them to prepare a sustainability report. In any case, all transparency commitments are, in some way, useful for good practice in this area.
Sustainability is a systemic transformation, so its commitment must be of the whole society, in a continuous dialogue with the ecosystem, between producers / consumers and administration of any sector.
In terms of public administration and procurement processes, this transformation brings with it a change of perspective: to evaluate all projects with the spectacles of sustainability in all its breadth. To this end, it is important to have tools that enable this, that help to share knowledge, to study good practices from other places and to assume the transforming role that public administration has with its policies. Towards this direction, points the tool developed by Novadays, Ecosystem for Circular Public Procurement (ECPC), which is presented as something more than a collaborative platform, giving the administration the opportunity to be a driving agent of a greener economy.
Circular Procurement Suite and this article have been elaborated in the framework of the project "Digital transformation of public procurement processes to boost Circular Public Procurement" (EXP/EC/2023/00313), which is a beneficiary of the call for grants to boost the Circular Economy in business for the year 2022 in the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.