‘Farm-to-fork' Public Procurement Toolkit

‘Farm-to-fork’ Public Procurement ToolkitThe toolkit hosted on CLIP will include:•Procurement criteria for Farm-to-fork procurement in line with the objectives of this project (healthy, sustainable food, from small suppliers/farmers, affordable)•Tender model on sustainable food procurement 2.0 •Good practice examples from across Europe: at least 5 concrete examples of public procurement from smaller suppliers, including costs and benefits for all parties involved (i.e. producers, contractors, end consumers such as patients in hospitals, children in schools or prisoners).•Spotlight factsheet •Guidelines on policy recommendations •Local government vision on Farm 2 Fork procurement: a short hand-out with practical input from cities on possible ways from vision to action. The input would mainly come from the city-region multi-actor dialogues, together with input from cities attending other project events, including associate partners, replication cities etc. •a legal checklist on Farm 2 Fork procurement in compliance with EU procurement legislation (Do’s & Dont’s)•An animated video (1-2 min) on Farm 2 Fork procurement. Although many cities have made good strides forward with sustainable food procurement, there are still many procurement officials who are unaware of how they can help move food procurement forward in the direction of sustainability, particularly with regards to engaging with the regional market in a legally compliant way. This short animation will be aimed primarily at procurement officials to explain the benefits of procuring food from their territorial food systems, and provide some examples of how this can be achieved. It will also direct viewers to the procurement toolkit.•FAQs