Public food services
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AgroBRIDGES Good Practice Recording Template |
| Author(s) | Kaisa Vehmas and Minna Kulju |
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| Choose a primary theme that the Good Practice adheres to (three themes can be considered: | Public procurement SFSCs approaches for offices schools hospitals etc. |
| If relevant choose a secondary theme that the Good Practice adheres to | |
| If relevant choose a tertiary theme that the Good Practice adheres to | |
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EIP Practice Abstract Format:
Short summary for practitioners in English on the (final or expected) outcomes (1000-1500 characters, word count – no spaces).This summary should be as interesting as possible for farmers/end-users, using a direct and easy understandable language and pointing out entrepreneurial elements which are particularly relevant for practitioners. Research oriented aspects which do not help the understanding of the practice itself should be avoided. |
Short description of the ‘Good Practice’: The national public procurement strategy in Finland (2020) sets targets for sustainable and responsible procurement of food and food services. The public sector should promote a sustainable food system in food and food service procurement and use sustainably and responsibly produced food products. Criteria that promote environmentally sound farming methods, food safety, nutrition, animal welfare and health, as well as promoting sustainable food supply and ecological sustainability, should be used for the procurement of food and food services. The Procurement Act (1397/2016) regulates, but does not prevent, food service operators from procuring local food and offers opportunities for cooperation between small and medium-sized food companies and public sector kitchens, e.g. in the form of a market dialogue.The published quality criteria provide concrete ways to favour responsibly and sustainably produced food. There are several guides for public organizations to conduct food or food service procurements e.g. Local food program funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have published the guide that helps public organizations to make good procurement decisions for domestic and local food (http://ekocentria.fi/resources/public//sisaltokaruselli/lahiruokaopas2017_ebook.pdf) and on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Motiva, a Sustainable Development Company, has updated the criteria for responsible public food procurement to further promote sustainable food production and increase the level of responsibility and domesticity of food in the public sector (https://www.motiva.fi/files/18215/Opas_vastuullisiin_elintarvikehankintoihin_-_suosituksia_vaatimuksiksi_ja_vertailukriteereiksi.pdf). In addition, KEINO Competence Centre, https://www.hankintakeino.fi/en, supports and helps Finnish public contracting authorities with the development of sustainable and innovative procurement i.e. making sustainable food procurements. |
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| Several guides have been published for public organizations to conduct food or food service procurements e.g. Local food program funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have published the guide that helps public organizations to make good procurement decisions for domestic and local food (http://ekocentria.fi/resources/public//sisaltokaruselli/lahiruokaopas2017_ebook.pdf) and on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Motiva, a Sustainable Development Company, has updated the criteria for responsible public food procurement to further promote sustainable food production and increase the level of responsibility and domesticity of food in the public sector (https://www.motiva.fi/files/18215/Opas_vastuullisiin_elintarvikehankintoihin_-_suosituksia_vaatimuksiksi_ja_vertailukriteereiksi.pdf). In addition, KEINO Competence Centre, https://www.hankintakeino.fi/en, supports and helps Finnish public contracting authorities with the development of sustainable and innovative procurement i.e. making sustainable food procurements. KEINO offers examples of making sustainable food procurements https://www.hankintakeino.fi/en/examples) and the aim is to openly disseminate information on procurement experiences for public organizations to learn from one another. | |
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Short summary for practitioners in native language on the (final or expected) outcomes (1000-1500 characters, word count – no spaces).
This summary should be as interesting as possible for farmers/end-users, using a direct and easy understandable language and pointing out entrepreneurial elements which are particularly relevant for practitioners. Research oriented aspects which do not help the understanding of the practice itself should be avoided. |
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| Pearls, Puzzles, Proposals? | “Pearls” – The new criteria makes it possible to favor local producers in tendering process. In addition, the market dialogue is essential part of the procurement process and offers good practises for puplic organizations and local producers to communicate with each other and find the ways to make procurement decisions. “Puzzles“ – In some procurement cases reported in KEINO local producers did not submit bids, regardless of the fact that special attention was paid to small producers’ opportunities to participate in the competitive bidding. “Proposals” – There is need to have more guidance for the producers how to respond to the public tenders. |
| What needs did the ‘good practice’ respond to? | Means for public organizations to procure more sustainably and responsibly produced food from local producers. |
| Methodology Used: | Desk based, one-on-one interview (with represenative of Ostrobothnia’s Swedish Producers’ Association) |
| Sector | All Sectors |
| Actors/Stakeholders involved. Who are key actors in the supply chain AND who are key enablers of the process? | Public sector, producers |
| What needs did the ‘good practice’ respond to? | To enhance procurement of local food by public organizations |
| Is the good practice supported by an IT application? If yes please describe and collect the TRL | Hankintailmoitukset.fi is the official service for notices on public procurement in Finland. Public buyers publish notices on upcoming and ongoing tendering procedures and as well on the results of procedures. (https://www.hankintailmoitukset.fi/en/ ) |
| Media attachment (e.g. video link) or other attachment describing/depicting the Good Pratice | |
| Key words | procurement, sustainability, local food, public food services |
| Additonal ifnromation for reporting purposes | The public procurement process has been described in the T1.5 document of Finland (Policy aspects influencing in SFSCs). |
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101000788 |
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