From the article: "Project execution in the construction industry faces major challenges, e.g. difficulty in coordination and cooperation. Operational procurement during project execution is no exception. In this paper we construct a maturity model, based on earlier work, consisting of six dimensions (goal, control, process, organization, information, technology) and five maturity stages (transactional-oriented, commercial-oriented, coordination, internal-optimized, external-optimized). The model can be used to determine the level of procurement maturity for each of the dimensions, and for the determination of a strategy for growth in the construction industry. With input from a major construction firm in the Netherlands, through simulating tooling, the model is evaluated for its contribution to growth in operational excellence. Results of the simulation show support for a relation between maturity growth and increased operational excellence." Recommended Citation Xing, Xiaochun; Versendaal, Johan; van den Akker, Marjan; and De Bevere, Bastiaan, "Maturity of Operational Procurement in the Construction Industry: A Business/IT-Alignment Perspective" (2011). BLED 2011 Proceedings. Paper 22. http://aisel.aisnet.org/bled2011/22 Affiliation: Xing Xiaochun - Swets Information Services, Netherlands; Johan Versendaal - Utrecht University, Netherlands; HU University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands; Marjan van den Akker - Utrecht University, Netherlands; Bastiaan De Bevere - Ballast Nedam, Netherlands.
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The Dutch government, in alignment with the Paris climate agreement, has expressed the ambition to reduce CO 2 emissions in the Netherlands by 49% in 2030 compared to 1990. As freight transport is recognized as a serious CO 2 emitter, this sector is confronted with a substantial part of the target. For cities, the reduction of the urban freight transport emissions is, next to the CO 2 reduction, also important to improve the air quality. Dutch municipalities take an active role in coordination, facilitation and acceleration of the emission reduction processes, not only via regulation but also by using their public procurement power. This paper describes the City of Rotterdam's experiences from the EU Horizon 2020 BuyZET project. This project was launched in November 2016 and includes the cities of Rotterdam, Oslo and Copenhagen. The project aims at understanding and optimising the impact of public procurement activities on transport patterns and emissions in cities as well as to find innovative and sustainable delivery solutions for goods and services-related transport in order to reduce emissions.
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In Germany, public transport organizations are mainly owned by public authorities. Procurement in Hamburg involves the buses and infrastructure instead of transport services. The procurement process for buses and infrastructure is performed by the transport companies. Such processes must meet German and European public regulations. Therefore, public tender and procurement procedures for buying buses by German Public Transport Operators (PTOs) can be more complex and lengthier than procurement by private PTOs in other countries. As a result, the public transport companies are not primarily driven by profitability, but also by obligations towards the public and political aims. Obligations can comprise to provide affordable, environmentallyfriendly transport services for the citizens. In Hamburg, the public authority incorporates obligations (requirements) for the e-buses in their tendering documents. In Utrecht, as well as most of the rest of the Netherlands, public transport is carried out by private companies, under an operating contract (concession) with a public transport authority. In Utrecht, this authority is the province of Utrecht. The e-buses are the operators’ private property and they are obliged to account to the province of Utrecht for their implementation of public transport. When the province of Utrecht procures the operation of public transport services by means of a European tendering process, private transport companies can offer a bid for this tender. Both, the authority and operators, want to provide good public transport for their customers, but they both have different goals. The operators want to earn a reasonable profit margin on public transport, while the authority wants to fulfil certain public policy goals. The tendering process is where these two come together. It is a strong mechanism to get the best ‘value for money’ out of the market – for example, the most public transport, or the highest number of e-buses running in the area, within the available budget of the public transport authority.
The COVID19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability in supply chain networks in the healthcare sector and the tremendous waste problem of disposable healthcare products, such as isolation gowns. Single-use disposable isolation gowns cause great ecological impact. Reusable gowns can potentially reduce climate impacts and improve the resilience of healthcare systems by ensuring a steady supply in times of high demand. However, scaling reusable, circular isolation gowns in healthcare organizations is not straightforward. It is impeded by economic barriers – such as servicing costs for each use – and logistic and hygiene barriers, as processes for transport, storage and safety need to be (re)designed. Healthcare professionals (e.g. purchasing managers) lack complete information about social, economic and ecological costs, the true cost of products, to make informed circular purchasing decisions. Additionally, the residual value of materials recovered from circular products is overlooked and should be factored into purchasing decisions. To facilitate the transition to circular procurement in healthcare, purchasing managers need more fine-grained, dynamic information on true costs. Our RAAK Publiek proposal (MODLI) addresses a problem that purchasing managers face – making purchasing decisions that factor in social, economic and ecological costs and future benefits from recovered materials. Building on an existing consortium that developed a reusable and recyclable isolation gown, we design and develop an open-source decision-support tool to inform circular procurement in healthcare organizations and simulate various purchasing options of non-circular and circular products, including products from circular cascades. Circular procurement is considered a key driver in the transition to a circular economy as it contributes to closing energy and material loops and minimizes negative impacts and waste throughout entire product lifecycles. MODLI aims to support circular procurement policies in healthcare organizations by providing dynamic information for circular procurement decision making.
De doelstelling van dit project is om Nederlandse sociale MKB-bedrijven te helpen bij het verkrijgen van (meer/betere) opdrachten in aanbestedingstrajecten, juist op basis van de social impact die deze bedrijven maken (impact op de samenleving, bijvoorbeeld door de arbeidsparticipatie van mensen met een afstand tot de arbeidsmarkt te stimuleren). Tegelijkertijd beogen we aanbestedende diensten te helpen social impact beter mee te nemen als positieve factor in aanbestedingen. We gaan een vergelijking maken tussen Nederland en België, waar een aparte rechtsvorm voor sociale ondernemingen bestaat (i.t.t. in NL), en dezelfde Europese aanbestedingsrichtlijn geldt. We willen vooral meer inzicht krijgen in de manier waarop sociale ondernemingen in beide landen hun social impact gebruiken om (meer/betere) opdrachten te krijgen; en de manier waarop aanbestedende diensten in beide landen social impact in opdrachtverstrekking en voorkeursbeleid voor sociale ondernemingen verwerken. Naast dossieronderzoek gaan we interviews houden met sociale ondernemingen, aanbestedende diensten en adviesbureaus op het terrein van aanbesteden en social impact. Bij de uitvoering van het onderzoek worden studenten van de opleidingen HBO Rechten en SJD ingezet, in het kader van de minor Bedrijfsjurist en afstuderen. De opgedane kennis wordt o.a. ingebracht bij de (door)ontwikkeling van de Innovatiewerkplaats ‘Krachtig MKB’. Deze postdoc aanvraag wordt ingediend vanuit het Marian van Os Centrum voor Ondernemerschap (MvOCvO) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen (HG) en sluit aan bij eerder onderzoek van dit centrum. Ondernemerschap is één van de drie speerpunten van de HG. Sociaal Ondernemerschap is als thema in de Roadmap en de onderzoeksvisie van het MvOCvO opgenomen; het sluit aan bij de HBO-onderzoeksagenda Onderzoek met impact en bovendien draagt het bij aan de belangrijkste doelstellingen van de Noordelijke Innovatie Agenda. Van de 14 lectoraten binnen het MvOCvO zijn er zes direct betrokken bij het thema sociaal ondernemerschap, als mede-penvoerder van een projectaanvraag, of als kennispartner.
