Antecedent
Tender dossier
Include a circular strategy in the tender dossier or create support for circular design strategies in the tender dossier.
When to take action?
Who can take action?
Client or contracting authority
Beginner expertise in circular building needed
Take action
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Pour your motivation why you focus on circularity into a descriptive text.
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Indicate which circularity aspects are most important for the building’s context.
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Decide how the design team will be supported to implement circularity.
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Specify the selection and award criteria.
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Determine how the circularity of the building project will be evaluated during the design process.
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Reflect if this tender dossier can be improved for future projects and if it can serve as an example for the construction sector.
Input
Background knowledge (Action Awareness and understanding) and a vision on circular building (Action Circular vision).
Outcome
The tender dossier includes a circular strategy.
Exemplary case
't Centrum
Together with a consortium of 7 companies, Kamp C is realizing a flexibly adaptable office building. With its well-considered circular design and a conscious choice of materials, techniques, and innovative business models, this building should be a catalyst for circular construction in Flanders and beyond.
With a range of circular ambitions and a fixed budget, Kamp C challenged the market to build a consortium and to introduce innovative building solutions themselves.
Read more on the project and its procurement and tender documents here.
More information and sources
Circular tendering: Where to start? by Bond Beter Leefmilieu
The Flemish Government has an action plan for sustainable public procurement.
Also have a look at the European Union Green Public Procurement and the Belgian sustainable public procurement.
Vademecum Circulair Bouwen - Leefmilieu Brussel
