Gender-responsive Public Procurement

This tool can be used by contracting authorities to help with the development and application of GRPP contract performance conditions. This tool allows you to check that you have taken the correct steps to include GRPP conditions at each procurement stage. Pre-procurement stage Checkbox Discuss potential GRPP contract conditions (e.g. regarding gender balance in the delivery of the contract, equal pay or gender equality training of the contractor’s staff) with internal users / contract managers.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities to ask bidders to develop a concept of how they will identify and address gender issues in the supply chain.Points are then awarded on, for example, how comprehensive it is, how feasible it is and how exhaustively it penetrates into the supply chain. It is particularly relevant in sectors in which bad working conditions are rife and there are no widespread or robust certification schemes.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities to formulate award criteria for GRPP. It contains sample award criteria that may be appropriate for you, depending on the subject matter of the contract. In each case, the award criteria should be further explained, ideally with examples of what you are looking for. These may be in the form of a non-exhaustive list, so that bidders are also free to come up with their own ideas that are relevant to the award criterion.

This tool provides contracting authorities with questions that are useful for defining selection criteria, technical specifications and/or award criteria that include gender aspects. You will find guiding questions that can support you in identifying at which stage(s) of the procurement process it is more appropriate to include gender aspects. Do you have sufficient market knowledge to choose appropriate GRPP criteria?

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to apply GRPP from the perspective of service providers. It offers guiding questions that can help you to improve the working conditions of the workforce employed during the execution of a contract for the provision of social and health services, including from a gender perspective.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to apply GRPP under the light regime and to design healthcare and social care service contracts with a gender perspective. This tool offers guiding questions that can help you to integrate a gender equality perspective when designing a tendering procedure for the provision of social and health services.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities to divide contracts into lots for GRPP. This tool allows you to assess whether lots may be a useful approach to promote GRPP in a particular contract or framework. The questions will help you in the decision of whether or not to divide a contract into lots. Do you have knowledge of the full range of organisations (including smaller companies, social enterprises or charities/voluntary bodies) who may be able to deliver all or part of the need?If not, preliminary market consultations should be held.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to choose a procedure for GRPP. It summarises the factors influencing the choice of procedure for GRPP. It asks guiding questions and, based on your answers, then guides you towards the most appropriate procedure for the tender you intend to launch. Is the contract above the relevant EU threshold?

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to develop a needs assessment or a preliminary market consultation. Are there differences in the way women and men will use/benefit from the outcome of the contract?If so, have you consulted users in a way that represents these differences? For example, in a contract to support cycling or other mobility services, women and men may have different patterns of commuting, which influence their needs.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to assess if a public contract has gender relevance. Depending on your answers, it will help you to identify whether it would be worth designing a tendering procedure with gender elements or not. The tool provides you with guiding questions. If, from your answers, it emerges that the contract has gender relevance, the tool also gives you some tips on how you could consider the best way to address the gender perspective through the procurement process.

This tool provides you with an overview of the legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks relevant for GRPP that exist in your country. You can also compare the frameworks that exist in your country with the frameworks from other EU Member States. If you are a policymaker, you can draw inspiration from other EU Member States. You can also use this tool in combination with Tool 1, ‘Self-assessment questionnaire about the legal, regulatory and policy frameworks’, to determine your level of knowledge about the frameworks that exist in your country.

This tool can be used by contracting authorities, policymakers and practitioners working towards gender equality and gender mainstreaming to explore the possibilities of, knowledge regarding and the context for applying GRPP. GRPP focuses on bringing a gender perspective to public procurement. If you are considering applying GRPP, it may be helpful to know to what extent your specific context (laws, strategies, support structures, stakeholders) may facilitate the use of GRPP and to determine the extent of your knowledge of these existing frameworks in your country.