Jan 19, 2022 | Case Studies, Featured, Food & Catering
For over a decade, the City of Thunder Bay has strengthened the connection between municipal facilities and local food systems. The city is a leader in food systems planning in Ontario, having adopted the Thunder Bay Food Charter, the Community Environmental Action...
Jan 19, 2022 | Case Studies, Featured, Food & Catering
As a partner in the Serving Up Local project, the City of Hamilton aimed to increase the purchase of local food items. Two approaches were taken. The first was to increase local food procurement from current vendors to whom they have obligations under the Group...
Jan 19, 2022 | Case Studies, Featured, Food & Catering
The Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance (GHFFA) project, Serving Up Local, is a partnership with Durham and Halton Regions and the City of Hamilton. The project aims to increase the local food purchases for long-term care homes by five percent of each...
Jan 19, 2022 | Case Studies, Featured, Transportation & Fleet Management
In June 2019, as part of the urban transport project, the City of Ostrów Wielkopolski in Poland published a tender for six electric low-floor city buses with a dedicated traction battery charging system for the city. The procuring authority, Miejski Zakład Komunikacji...
Jan 19, 2022 | Case Studies, Facility & Building Management, Featured
The City of Lappeenranta is committed to reducing CO2 emissions and, in 2017, focused on reducing emissions within transportation and fleet. The city aimed to use procurement to introduce a fully-electric car-sharing service for both city employees and third parties...
