Procurement policy to support remanufacturing – Ireland shows the way

The single most important strategy to promote remanufacturing is the inclusion of ‘remanufactured products’ in the procurement policies issued by businesses and government. Yet to date, ‘Green Public Procurement’ has been hopelessly inadequate...

It is with some relief then that we note the Irish Government’s framework contract in favour of remanufactured notebook computers. This contract opportunity was highlighted on 7th February at an event organised by Circuleire, an event at which the European Remanufacturing Council also presented its work. You can offer this well-drafted Irish Government framework contract as an example to encourage your own member state government (or large business) to follow suit. The Framework for the provision of Remanufactured Notebook Computers is available on this gov.ie webpage.