Dutch National Action Plan for Sustainable Public Procurement

Country / jurisdiction: Netherlands · Year: 2010 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

In the Netherlands a carbon scoring system is used in the procurement of the construction projects. The project-level Environmental Performance of Buildings (known as MPG in Dutch) and Economic Cost Indicator (ECI in English or MKI in Dutch) systems use shadow costs for materials to calculate a single embodied carbon score at a project and product level respectively

The Dutch National Action plan on Sustainable Public Procurement 2021-2025 maintains the instruments and support mechanism developed under the previous action plan and adds new activities along four focus areas, including activating internal customers to create a greater uptake of SPP and maximizing impact in the most important sectors by creating buyer groups and making specific agreements

A Concrete Agreement enacted in 2018 by public and private actors in the concrete value chain aims for CO2 neutrality and a circular concrete sector by 2030. In the Agreement, product level limits are set on embodied carbon using the MKI score

Official source: https://staging.missionpossiblepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LowCarbonConcreteandConstruction.pdf