Cooperative procurement of lighting systems: Stockholm shows the way
This paper takes a recent European Commission study on international cooperative procurement aimed at increasing the dissemination of efficient lighting systems and other technologies as the starting point for a discussion on the various procurement methods for efficient technologies. The paper defines technology procurement as a method aimed at pulling out technologies from the labs to the market, and cooperative procurement as a method aimed at increasing the market shares of already existing efficient technologies. It concludes that for such a complex product as a lighting system, it is difficult to formulate performance requirements even if all the components needed already are available on the market. This complexity increases as the procurement activity becomes international. However, with a recently started in-house energy management lighting service for the city of Stockholm, the paper finds that cooperative procurement for lighting systems still could be possible. Such a process requires that several institutional barriers regarding, for instance, financing and the design and installation process, have to be overcome before the procurement process can be initiated. This is easier to do on a local scale, as is illustrated by the example of Stockholm. When a local project has been successfully established, it could be expanded to other buyers and users, even internationally.
- Research Organization:
- Borg and Co. (SE)
- OSTI ID:
- 20002678
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980815--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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