Zero emission delivery of goods
Nordic cities come together in a joint Nordic procurement process. The goal is to get zero emission delivery of goods, to develop Nordic companies, get greener and more innovative solutions, and to make sure that the public sector cooperate more.
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Process and timeline
Mai 2019 - Project initiative
The Nordic council of ministers awarded Difi and The National programme for Supplier Development the project, where the aim is to involve cities across the Nordic in a joint market dialogue for greener solutions.
Sept/Oct 2019 - Mobilizing cities in the Nordics
Difi (NO) and The National programme for Supplier Development (NO) invited Miljøstyrelsen (DK), Upphandlingsmyndigheten (SE) and Motiva (FI) to help with the mobilization of cities in their countries.
Contacts:
Project lead:
- National Programme for Supplier Development idaskaaret.laustsen@nho.no
- Difi (NO) Christine.Kihl@digdir.no
Project group:
• Motiva (FI) isa-maria.bergman@motiva.fi
• Upphandlingsmyndigheten (SE): johanna.enberg@uhmynd.se
• Miljøstyrelsen (DK) jenno@mst.dk
Miljødirektoratet / NCE (NO) Christoffer.Back.Vestli@miljodir.no
October 2019 - Information meeting for the public organizations
The cities were invited to join the process by sending out an invitation, having skype-meetings with information about the project, and a physical information meeting on the 24th October 2019 in Oslo.
October 2019 - Cities join the process
The cities that has decided to participate in a joint process for mapping the needs and challenges and a nordic market dialogue.
Finland:
City of Kaarina: Jonas Nordberg
City of Turku: Fredrik Lindström
Denmark:
Aalborg kommune: Steffen Lervad Thomsen
Gladsaxe kommune: Anders Friis Brorholt
København kommune: Ida Meulengracht Ginsborg
Sweden:
Stockholm stad: Per Erik Österlund
Göteborgs stad: Mats Pervik
Ørebro kommune: Helena Sköld Løvgren, Jakob Cronhamre, Katarina Craaford
Norway
Oslo kommune: Geir Rossebø
Trondheim kommune: Magnus Vestrum
Bergen kommune: Uwe Mattheus
Kristiansand kommune: Ole-Jacob Rynning Tønnesen, Rolf Arild Johannessen
Statens Innkjøpssenter: Barbro Bottheim
Other organizations involved in the process:
Kunnskapsbyen Lillestrøm: Jon Eriksen
Nordic Innovation: Nina Egeli, Trine Moa, Ivar Josefsson
December 2019 and January 2020 - Mapping the needs and Insights report
The group bought fazilitating and a design team from the company Bekk to help map the needs, and to create a draft for a dialogue note.
The group met on December 3rd 2019 in Copenhagen, and January 15th in Gøteborg to map pain points, possibilities, challenges and procurement needs.
- Here you can see the Insights report where we present the joint needs, challenges and background for the project.
- Excercises and the presentations from the workshops will be published here.
April 29th 2020 - Digital information meeting for the market
We will host a digital information meeting Wednesday 29.04.2020 from 13:00-15:00 using Teams.
Register here to get an invitation for the information meeting.
Programme:
- 13:00 Information about the project
- 14:00 Questions and answers
The invitation for the market dialogue has also been published on Mercell TED and DOFFIN.
May 2020 - Request for information (RFI)
All the countries has published an written Request for Information. Despite the situation with Covid-19, we would like to continue the dialogue with companies and the market. We understand that the situation is difficult, but we hope that it is interesting for some suppliers to give us feedback both long- and short-term on how we can get innovative solutions in the future. RFI was published april 2020, deadline 1 june 2020.
November 2020 Joint statement
11 Nordic cities and 2 central government procurement bodies have published a joint statement that calls for zero emission delivery of goods.
April 2021 Nordic market dialogue where companies pitch their solutions
Zero emission vehicles and more innovative and efficient solutions are now increasingly available for city deliveries. During this day we will connect companies with the solutions with the big buyers in the Nordics. You can see all the pitches and presentations if you click on the link "les mer"
You can find the whole conference on YouTube here.
You can find the list of participants in pdf here.
You can find the presentations in pdf by clicking on the link:
Katarina Luhr, Vice Mayor for Environment and Climate, City of Stockholm,
Einar Wilhelmsen, Vice Mayor for Finance, City of Oslo
Public buyers present procurements:
Sari Holmberg, Project Manager Strategic procurement, City of Turku,
Per-Erik Österlund, Project Manager Clean Vehicles at City of Stockholm.
Vehicle suppliers:
Thor Øivind Johansen, Sales and Marketing Director Paxster AS
Espen Kristoffersen, Commercial Director New Energy Vehicles, RSA
Per Netland, Fleet Salesmanager Commercial Vehicles, Bertel O Steen
Kjetil Bergflødt, Sales and Product Manager Alternative drivelines Volvo
John Lauvstad, Director M&C, Norsk Scania AS
Halvard Lillevik, CEO, Sykkelsentralen AS
Charging:
Lars Tveitan Østvold, Sales Manager eMobility Future Grid, Siemens
Transport service suppliers:
Ulf Hammarberg, Environmental Affairs, DHL Freight Sweden,
Peter Stangeland, Chief Commercial Officer, Oslo City Hub, DB Schenker
Clarence Ström, Projectleader Ragn-Sells Recycling AB. “Beloved City”, Stockholm
Johanna Ström, Project Manager Sustainability, Bring.
Smart logistic solutions:
Harald Sævareid, CEO, Nivel AS,
Stian Hansen, Chief Executive Director, SQT AS
Peter Littau, Commercial Lead, Volocopter GmbH
Owners of goods:
Jan Knoph, Managing Director, OneMed AS,
Patrik Nyholm, Procurement Manager, Elis Textilservice AB,
Marius Råstad, Corporate Logistics Manager, ASKO Norway AS,
Teodor Bäckström, Fulfilment Operations Manager, IKEA Norway
Other companies
Kople – Charging systems adapted to everyone
Wrap-up
Financing and funding for innovative projects
There will be several procurements related to this process coming up, and we know that innovative solutions are needed. If you need funding for creating a new product, you can apply on some of these relevant finance instruments.
For companys:
- Nordic Innovation.
- NOK 16 million to Nordic innovation projects that help change the way people and goods move in the Nordic region. Companies (SMEs and larger companies), public sector organizations (e.g. infrastructure owners, regulators, procurers, innovation ecosystems), cluster organizations, business networks or research institutions may apply. Application deadline: 31 March 2020 at 13.00 CET
- ENOVA
- Norwegian companies can get up to NOK 50 000,- in climate discount from Enova if you choose an electric van. Just remember to apply for support before ordering your car!
For public procurers:
- Klimasats.
- Norwegian municipalities can apply for funding for measures for conversion to the low-emission society. Application deadline 15 February 2020 at 24.00.
- ENOVA
For both public procurers and companies:
- ENOVA
- Pilotering av ny energi- og klimateknologi. Programmet er åpent for næringsaktører, offentlige aktører eller konsortier der nærings- eller offentlige aktører er
sentrale, medfinansierende og aktive deltakere.
- Pilotering av ny energi- og klimateknologi. Programmet er åpent for næringsaktører, offentlige aktører eller konsortier der nærings- eller offentlige aktører er
- Horizon 2020
- MG-3-8-2020: ‘First of a Kind’ solutions for sustainable transport and mobility: EU initiative for accelerating EU-wide market access, scale up and derisking
- CSA=(Coordination And Support Action). Application deadline 21.03.2020
- 100% grant on 1½ M€
- Scope: The aim is to develop an EU matchmaking system (both for tools and services) to de-risk large purchasing of first-of-a-kind solutions at European level and accelerate EU-wide market access and scale up of sustainable transport products and services and fostering their de-risking.
- More information on this page.
- MG-3-8-2020: ‘First of a Kind’ solutions for sustainable transport and mobility: EU initiative for accelerating EU-wide market access, scale up and derisking
Relevant research and development on zero emission delivery
- Klimakur 2030
- BuyZET
- BuyZET aims to understand and optimise the impact of public procurement activities on transport patterns in cities – and to find innovative and sustainable delivery solutions for goods and services, which can help to address these challenges. Developing innovative procurement plans for two key procurement areas that minimise the number, distance and disruptiveness of motorised vehicle trips within the city, and maximise the proportion of these trips made by zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). There are several relevant reports and insight done through BuyZET. Oslo was a participating city in BuyZET and Geir Rossebø provides insight from BuyZET to this project where we aim for zero emission delivery of goods.
- Zero Emission Urban Freight
- A TDA ( Transport Decarbonisation Alliance) whitepaper on how to reach zero emission urban freight by uniting Countries, Cities/Regions and Companies from may 2019
- TØI (Transportøkonomisk institutt)
- Hele lasten – halve utslippet (2012) Oslo Kommune, Tollpost Globe AS, Veøy AS, NHO Logistikk og Transport
- Grøn transport i værdikæden – Inspiration og gode råd til indkøbere og leverandører af transport
PR
The project got attention from the press and media, as this is the first time the Nordics join forces on innovative public procurement.
- Anbud365.no 1.10.2019 «Trommer sammen til nordisk offensiv for å kutte utslipp fra vare- og tjenesteleveranser»
- European Commission 19.12.2019 «The Nordics join forces on green innovation procurement»
- Inköpsrådet.se 26.2.2020 «Gränslös satsning på utsläppsfri leverans«
- Anbud365.no 15.6.2020 «Fire norske kommuner med i fellesnordisk bestillerdialog for grønne innkjøp»
- Upphandlingsmyndigheten: https://www.upphandlingsmyndigheten.se/aktuellt/nordisk-bestallardialog-om-utslappsfria-leveranser/
- YouTube information film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu29U9SIvs0
Information tools
Here we will publish videos, infographics and photos as soon that can be used for information about the project.
Report
From 2019 until the autumn of 2021 there have been various activities which you can read about in this report.
In 2018 the Nordic Council of Ministers published a report urging more Nordic cooperation on environment and climate. The report proposes 12 recommendations, where of more active sharing of knowledge and experience with green public procurement.
The aim of this project was to develop cooperation between large Nordic cities in the form of a public buyer’s network. The network was to conduct market dialogues on a selected area and promote environmental solutions. Gathering public contracting authorities with the same need and then challenge the market together is an effective way to create a larger market for newly developed solutions. The topic has been to work towards zero emission delivery of goods.
Download report here: http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1628897&dswid=2088
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