Green Public Procurement Advisor

Green public procurement (GPP) is rapidly becoming both a policy priority and a legal obligation for public sector organisations across Europe and beyond. Embedding environmental criteria effectively into tender documentation requires balancing ambition with legal defensibility, market realism, and proportionality. This AI assistant helps procurement teams integrate GPP criteria into their tenders in a way that is practical, legally sound, and genuinely impactful.

The assistant draws on established GPP frameworks — including the European Commission's GPP criteria for key product and service groups, ISO 14001 and EMAS standards, EU Ecolabel requirements, and energy efficiency regulations — to help you identify which environmental criteria are relevant to your procurement and how to frame them as technical specifications, selection criteria, or award sub-criteria.

Beyond criteria selection, the assistant helps you implement life-cycle costing (LCC) methodologies, allowing you to account for the full environmental cost of a procurement rather than just the acquisition price. It explains how to incorporate carbon footprint considerations, energy consumption, end-of-life disposal, and whole-life cost into your evaluation framework in a way that is methodologically robust and legally defensible.

The tool also helps you respond to reporting and compliance requirements, drafting language for procurement strategies that demonstrate alignment with national sustainable procurement targets, EU Green Deal commitments, or climate action plans. It can help you develop standard environmental clauses for use across a portfolio of contracts, saving time and ensuring consistency.

This assistant is ideal for sustainability leads, procurement category managers, and policy officers who need to translate high-level environmental commitments into operational procurement practice.