**Runner up of Procura+ Award for Innovation Procurement of the Year 2020**
The City of Malmö, in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden's third largest city. Malmö's total procurement volume is €0.9 bn per year. Through strategic public procurement the City of Malmö aims to take social and ecological responsibility and create incentives for the providing companies to revise their social and environmental agenda.
 | 330k Population |
 | 27k Employees |
 | 2012 Date joined
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The policy regarding public procurement states that public procurement and other purchases should - apart from being permeated by the fundamental principles of public procurement - be guided by environmental and social terms. In practice, this results in contractual terms regarding, for example, social requirements for people in the supply chain.
The City of Malmö has high goals when it comes to organic food and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from food. And the goals have had effect. In 2020, 69,7 % of all food that the municipality bought was organic and the carbon emissions from food was reduced with 28 % between 2002 to 2020.
In 2006 Malmö became Sweden's first certified Fairtrade City. In 2020; 86 % of all coffee, tea and bananas that were bought were Fairtrade.
As part of the Circular PP project, Malmö established a framework for "non-new" furniture, which can be used to purchase second-hand furniture, as well as a range of furniture repair and refurbishment services.
For further information on the activities of Malmö visit their website:
or email procurement@iclei.org
Using public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst for the circular economy
Using procurement to promote universal design of services and goods, through contract criteria and workshop methods when drafting the contract criteria.
