Conference Programme 2019

RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT 2019
Strategic approach to public procurement
October, 3rd – 4th, 2019 in Prague

Programme

Thursday October 3, 2019

9:00 – 9:30  Registration and coffee 
9:30-10:00 Welcome and opening

  • Ingrid Štegmannová, State Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  • Jan Sixta, State Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture
10:00-10:50 International context of socially responsible public procurement

  • Current challenges, trends, and visions concerning strategic public procurement
  • International institutions perspectives on using public procurement as a strategic tool to reach sustainability goals
  • Recommended methodologies and tools
  • Farid Yaker, Programme Officer in Sustainable Public Procurement, UN environment
  • Erika Bozzay, Senior Adviser, Public Procurement, OECD
  • Anna Lupi, Legal and Policy Officer, DG Grow, European Commission
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:45 Implementing socially responsible public procurement on the national level

  • National strategies, policies and action plans for sustainable public procurement
  • Ingrid Štegmannová, State Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Czech Republic
  • Magdalena Olejarz, Director of the EU and International Cooperation Department, Public Procurement Office, Poland
  • Lidia Capparelli, GPP Senior Manager, Consip, S.p.A., Italy
  • Branislav Ondruš, State Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Slovakia
  • Cindy Nadesan, Procurement Improvement Officer, Surrey Council, United Kingdom
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:10 Examples of socially responsible public procurement implemented by contracting authorities

  • Implementation of the responsible public procurement in organizations
  • Miguel Benito, Director of Coordination of Public Procurement, Barcelona City Council, Spain
  • Marta Valešová, Bursar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  • Jakub Kopřiva, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Transport, Czech Republic
  • Peter Nohrstedt, Sustainability Manager, SKL Kommentus, Sweden
  • David Salomonsen, Head of the CSR & Procurement law team,  City of Copenhagen, Denmark
15:10-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:15 Workshops

I. Implementing socially responsible public procurement within organization

  • Miguel Benito, Director of Coordination of Public Procurement, Barcelona City Council, Spain
  • Peter Nohrstedt, Sustainability Manager, SKL Kommentus, Sweden
  • Lenka Hollerová, Head of Public Procurement Unit, Jičín Town, Czech Republic
  • Jakub Váňa, Head of Public Procurement Unit, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

II. Socially responsible public procurement in the construction sector

  • Petr Kubala, Director General, Vltava River Basin, state enterprise, Czech Republic
  • Jiří Prokš, Head of Public Procurement, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
  •  Adéla Havlová, Partner, Havel & Partners, Association for Infrastructure Development
  •  Karel Volf, Commercial Director, Metrostav a.s.
  •  Lukáš Zedník, Commercial Director, divize Pozemní stavby Čechy, HOCHTIEF CS a.s. (TBC)
  •  Štěpán Mančík, architect, member of the UCEEB team, ČVUT, Czech Republic                                                                      (In Czech language only.)

III. Reporting, monitoring, and measuring socially responsible public procurement

  • Charlotte Österman, Partner & Sustainable Development Director for Pax Tecum Global Consultancy and Advisor to Social Value UK’s Council
    (In English language only.)
19:30-22:00 Award for contribution to development of the socially responsible public procurement in the Czech Republic

Venue: GRAND HOTEL BOHEMIA PRAGUE
Králodvorská 4, 110 00 Praha 1, map

19.30 Welcome drink

20:15 Award ceremony

20:45 Reception                                                 

 

Friday October 4, 2019

8:30-9:00  Registration and coffee 
 9:00 Opening
9:00-9:30 Summary of the workshops

  1. Implementing socially responsible public procurement within organization – Monika Dobrovodská
  2. Socially responsible public procurement in the construction sector – Zbyněk Pochmon
  3. Reporting, monitoring, and measuring socially responsible public procurement – Eva Chvalkovská
9:30-11:00 Supervisory mechanisms and their approach to sustainable public procurement

  • Miroslav Hlivák, President, Office for Public Procurement, Slovakia
  • Eva Kubišová, Vice-President, Office for the Protection of Competition, Czech Republic
  • Magdalena Olejarz, Director of the EU and International Cooperation Department, Office for Public Procurement, Poland
  • Leila Mészáros, Legal Advisor, Public Procurement Authority, Hungary
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Good practice marketplace – inspirational public contracts

  • Short introductions of inspirational public procurements
    • Carla Canal, Project Manager Policy Coherence for Development Direction of Global Justice and International Cooperation, Barcelona City Council, Spain
    • Lenka Hollerová, Head of Procurement Department, Jičín town, Czech Republic
    • Jakub Váňa, Head of Public Procurement, South-Moravian Region, Czech Republic
    • Peter Nohrstedt, Sustainability Manager, SKL Kommentus, Sweden
    • Tomáš Havlíček, Director, Investment Section, Vltava River Basin, state enterprise, Czech Republic
12:00-13:00 Competency framework in sustainable public procurement

  • Education of public procurement professionals
  • Key competences and their development
  • EU perspectives on competency framework
  • Anna Lupi, Legal and Policy Officer, DG Grow, European Commission
  • Leona Gergelová Šteigrová, Head of the Public Procurement Unit, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Czech Republic
  • Martin Hadaš, Head of the Unit Public Procurement, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  • Cindy Nadesan, Procurement Improvement Officer, Surrey Council, United Kingdom
  • Radka Vladyková, Director of the Bureau, The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic
13:00 Closing, lunch