Sustainable public procurement -helpdesk
KEINO is a network-based Competence center for Sustainable and Innovative public procurement in Finland. KEINO supports and helps Finnish public procurement experts and authorities with the development of sustainable and innovative procurement.
1) Strategic leadership - KEINO Academy for procurement management. 2) KEINO offers regional support to public procurers in Finland in form of regional change agents. KEINO change agents (14 in different regions in Finland) act as the local contact point for the competence centre, bringing KEINO's activities and support closer to public procurers locally. The work of these agents receives funding from KEINO but is performed under the employment of each agent's own employer. 3) KEINO Competence centre facilitates several so-called buyer groups, consisting public purchasing authorities with common needs. The buyer groups aim at speed up the development and implementation of new ways of working, solutions and methods of scaling up best practices and innovative solutions. At the same time enhancing the capabilities to conduct sustainable and innovative procurement.
