Enabling Systemic Circular Public Procurement: a Method to Build Circular Criteria Checklists

Abstract

Circular public procurement is an important strategy in encouraging and scaling circular business models. However, today public bodies often lack guidance on how to implement circular public procurement in practice. We propose a method – the Circular Public Procurement Checklist (CPProcC) Builder – that was developed in collaboration with public actors and enables a systemic approach to circular public procurement. In this paper, we present the method and the learnings from implementation.