Public buyers across Europe are starting to take advantage of these opportunities and demonstrate real social impact in their purchasing. This is the case of Vendée, France, where a tender to provide agri-food services to more than 30 schools in the area was reserved for organisations employing a minimum percentage of people with disabilities.
For more information on how the social aspects of the EU Public Procurement Directives were transposed at a national level, plus further good practices on SRPP, with a particular focus on access to public markets by social economy enterprises, see the report Making socially responsible public procurement work. 71 good practice cases.