AMENDMENTS 1 - 180 - Draft report Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in combating unemployment

Version initale

10. Points out that social economy enterprises face difficulties in accessing public procurement; calls for action to facilitate their participation in public procurement by providing appropriate advice and simplifying the procedures ; calls for bids to be rewarded that offer most economic and social value rather than the lowest price in public procurement, with social or environmental criteria being included in public procurement contracts;

Amendement

10. Points out that social economy enterprises face difficulties in accessing public procurement; calls for action to facilitate their participation in public procurement by providing appropriate advice and simplifying the procedures and by implementing in full the new provisions adopted in 2014 concerning the earmarking of contracts for enterprises from the social and solidarity-based economy; calls for bids to be rewarded that offer most economic and social value rather than the lowest price in public procurement, with social or environmental criteria being included in public procurement contracts;