Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Mark the answer which describes you best.

What we need and want?

We determine the needs easily.

We are able to distinguish which of our needs can be satisfied in a circular or sustainable manner.

We are able to map the environmental and social impact for our identified needs.

How we plan?

We plan our procurement in a way that satisfies our needs and follows policy goals.

We are able to determine our financial and human resource constrictions and barriers.

We plan what to purchase so cost-efficiency is followed.

We rethink before we purchase: we consider reuse, repurpose, as well as solutions that are related to not owning.

We have protocols and practices in place that allow us to pursue alternative strategies other that new purchasing.

Getting the real value

We believe price is of utmost importance when planning the purchase.

Although price is important, we take into account that quality and persuing circular goals, require us to be willing to sometimes even pay a premium.

We invest efforts in terms of defining the lifecycles of products that could satisfy our needs.

We have some limited practical examples based on our estimations of lifecycle analysis.

We are able to estimate the lifecycles of product we plan to purchase using LCA or some other method, and complete life cycle costing.

Strategizing for CE

We know the optimal format (e-procurement or not) based on value.

We select the optimal format also taking into account the goals persued.

We know how to select the appropriate type of strategy (green, circular, innovation).

Doing it right

We are able to follow the proper processes and stay within procesural legal frames for public procurement processes, including those related to green and circular procurement.

We follow proper processes and are able to ensure fair treatment of all biders.

For tenders related to green procurement and circular procurement we are able to identify the relevant legal regulations and laws.

For tenders related to green procurement and circular procurement we are able to identify the relevant legal regulations and laws, and understand their intentions and goals.

For tenders related to green procurement and circular procurement we are able to identify the relevant legal regulations and laws, understand their intentions and goals, and be innovative in the way we achieve the outcomes relevant for circular economy and the transition to green economies.

Our values and commitments

In general we have leadership support for green and/or circular solutions.

General leadership support is also accompanied by the allocation of resources (people/finance).

General leadership support is also accompanied with enthusiastic individuals that are willing to invest time and efforts in green and/or circular solutions.

We have a specialized department dealing with new green and/or circular solutions.

Our organization is entirely devoted to green and/or green solutions.

How it works and looks?

We struggle with defining the technical specification and criteria in the tenders and with getting stakeholders inputs.

We struggle with defining the technical specification and criteria in the tenders, but we are able to collect suppliers inputs.

We struggle with defining the technical specification and criteria in the tenders, but are able to collect broad stakeholders inputs for them.

We are able to form clear technical specifications and criteria based on broad understanding of the technologies as well as the CE goals, both enriched by stakeholders inputs.

We are able to formulate innovative ways to frame our needs that lead to procuring efficient and innovative circular solutions satisfying our needs.

Making it count

We have a general knowledge of the market and their capacities for circular solutions.

We have competences to perform more complex market analysis.

We have category specific knowledge of the solutions and new business models, as well as the potential suppliers that can satisfied our needs in line with circularity demands.

We have sufficient competences to frame our tenders in a way that support the development of new circular solutions, whilst also taking into account best practices from elsewhere, as well as the input from the suppliers, to satisfy our needs in line with circularity demands.

We have sufficient competences to frame our tenders in a way that support the development of new circular solutions, including new business models and/or new markets, and/or help build local circular loops.

Understanding what we did

We struggle with the evaluation of individual tenders due to the criteria related to circularity.

Although we still struggle with the evaluation of individual green and/or circular tenders, but have already engaged in new trainings and self-learning to gain more competences in the field.

We have gained sufficient capacities to evaluate individual green and/or circular tenders, but struggle with ex-post evaluations of our own past procurements.

We have gained sufficient capacities to evaluate individual green and/or circular tenders, and the ex-post evaluations of our own past procurements, but have developed no tools to evaluate the efficiency of circular procurements seen as "best practices".

We have gained sufficient skills to use tools to evaluate the efficiency of own circular procurements as well as circular procurements seen as "best practices".

Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Thank you for taking the self-evaluation test. You're seem to still be gaining familiarity with circular procurement principles and processes. While you follow standard procedures, we suggest to further explore deeper analysis of needs, lifecycle costing, or/and innovative strategies related to circular public procurement.

Consider attending training, or researching the circular public procurement flow and best practices, to broaden your understanding.

Based on your responses, we believe it would be beneficial to further improve the following skills with help of the matrix.

Your score indicates you're making progress in embracing circular procurement principles and that you demonstrate a good grasp of some circular procurement concepts and significant strengths in certain areas. However, opportunities still exist to deepen your knowledge in several areas.

Consider attending training, or researching the circular public procurement flow and best practices, to broaden your understanding.

Based on your responses, we believe it would be beneficial to further improve the following skills with help of the matrix.

You're a champion of circular procurement! You excel at identifying needs, planning strategically, and implementing practices that promote circularity. You actively use various tools and methods, including lifecycle costing, stakeholder engagement, and innovative tender design, to achieve impressive results.

Nonetheless, should you still want to further research the flow of the circular public procurement and learn more form best practices consider checking here. There may be various training sessions for you, not only to further hone your skills, but also to connect to further individuals interested in circular public procurement.

Based on your responses, we believe it would be beneficial to further improve the following skills with help of the matrix.