Gender-responsive Public Procurement

Gender equality is a fundamental value of the EU [1]. Promoting gender equality in all its activities is one of the EU’s tasks. Article 8 of the TFEU explicitly requires the EU to eliminate inequalities and promote equality between women and men through all of its activities (i.e. to ensure gender mainstreaming). The EU’s gender equality policy objectives are wide-ranging...

Gender budgeting is a gender mainstreaming tool aimed at achieving equality between women and men by focusing on how public resources are collected and spent [1]. The gender dimension should be integrated into all ]phases of the budgetary cycle, from the budgetary proposals ( ex ante) and throughout the spending itself ( ex nunc) to the evaluation and control of...

This section outlines the importance of the legal, regulatory and policy frameworks that inform the use of GRPP [1]. The EU public procurement legal framework provides for the possibility of implementing GRPP, although gender equality is not mentioned as a specific objective. The same situation can be found in most Member States, although there are variations in the transposition of...

Figure 4. GRPP at the post-procurement stage Contract performance conditions At the post-tender stage, public bodies must apply the contract performance conditions that they have set out in the tender documents and agreed with the successful bidder. Under Article 70, these may include (inter alia) social or employment-related considerations. Recital 98 of Directive 2014/24/EU states that: Contract performance conditions might...

Gender-responsive public procurement (GRPP) is a gender mainstreaming tool to promote gender equality through public procurement [1]. GRPP is procurement that promotes gender equality through the purchase of works, supplies or services by public sector bodies. This means that buyers and suppliers look at the impact of all of the contracted activities related to women’s and men’s interests and concerns...