“Green” public procurement mechanism formation: International and domestic experience

Abstract

The article analyzes the scope of green public procurement based on foreign and domestic experience. Authors note that the main feature of such procurement is the existence of a larger number of criteria amongst which is the environmental criteria which is used in the goods and services suppliers’ assessment process. The purpose of the study is to develop domestic and foreign experience in relation to “green” public procurement. The study predetermines the regulatory framework analysis, as well as different researchers’ opinions on the problems of “green” public procurement from the perspective of Russian and foreign practice. Techniques of analysis, induction, deduction, and abstraction in public sector organizations served as the methodological basis of the study. This study pays considerable attention to the basics of the “green” public procurement system, which are structured and meaningful, but at the same time has flexible points of interaction when organizing procurement activities. Also, more attention was paid to the environmental criteria for products and services procurement. The authors consider the experience of foreign countries, namely the USA and Germany, and also determine the level of development of national “green” public procurement in 2023. The authors emphasize that in the past year, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted a regulatory document that makes it possible to implement the basic principles of resource management when organizing and conducting procurement at both the federal and municipal levels, as well as to effectively use secondary raw materials in certain types of new products. This research made a conclusion that international and domestic experience in implementing “green” public procurement helps to solve a number of problems common in each country.