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251	AI Pinpoints Sustainability Priorities where Surveys Can’t : Towards Sustainable Public Procurement with Unsupervised Text Classification / AI hittar hållbarhetsprioriteringar där enkäter går bet : Mot hållbara offentliga upphandlingar med oövervakad textklassificering Nordstrand, Mattias January 2024 (has links) There are many sustainability issues related to products, services, and business processes. For example, the production, usage, and disposal of IT equipment all impact sustainability. Therefore, buying more sustainable IT equipment can make a difference. More sustainable IT equipment can be acquired by selecting IT equipment with sustainability certification, such as TCO Certified. TCO Certified makes sustainable purchasing easier, which is useful in public procurement. Public procurement is complex to guarantee objectivity and transparency. Transparency in public procurement also means many public procurement documents are available, which can be analyzed. We hypothesized that the sustainability focuses in these public procurement documents (what the text is about) reflect the sustainability priorities of professional buyers (in their minds, which is indirectly observable). With this link, we investigated differences in sustainability priorities by using a machine learning model for predicting sustainability focuses in public procurement documents. By using a large language model, we automatically extracted sustainability focuses in procurement documents from the e-procurement platform TED. Thereby, we measured the sustainability focus of countries all over the globe. Through interviews with experts, we saw several indications that the used method is a good way of pinpointing sustainability priorities. We provide maps of sustainability focuses around the world (in section 4.12). Moreover, we analyze the results in-depth. One interesting finding includes indications that countries generally do not prioritize an issue more if the issue is of a larger concern. Counterintuitively, countries prioritize an issue more if the issue is of lesser concern. One example of this is circularity focus, which we note is generally less in countries with worse waste management. To our knowledge, analyzing sustainability focuses in procurement documents has not been done on this scale before. We believe these novel results can lead the way for a better understanding of sustainability priorities around the world. / Det finns många hållbarhetsproblem relaterade till produkter, tjänster och affärsprocesser. Till exempel finns det en hållbarhetspåverkan i produktion, användning och avfallshantering av IT-utrustning. Inköp av hållbarare IT-utrustning kan därför göra skillnad. Mer hållbar IT-utrustning kan erhållas genom att välja hållbarhetscertifierad IT-utrustning som exempelvis TCO Certified. TCO Certified gör hållbara inköp enklare och är särskilt användbart inom offentlig upphandling. Offentlig upphandling är komplext i objektivitet- och transparenssyfte. Transparens inom offentlig upphandling innebär också att många offentliga upphandlingsdokument finns tillgängliga och kan analyseras. Vi antog att hållbarhetsfokusen inuti dessa offentliga upphandlings-dokument (vad texten handlar om) hänger ihop med de professionella inköparnas hållbarhetsprioriteringar (deras tankar/känslor/intressen). Med denna länk undersökte vi skillnader i hållbarhetsprioriteringar genom att använda en maskininlärningsmodell för att uppskatta hållbarhetsfokus i offentliga upphandlingsdokument. Med en storskalig språkmodell extraherade vi automatiskt hållbarhetsfokus i dokument från Tenders Electronics Daily. Därigenom mätte vi hållbarhetsfokus för länder över hela världen. Genom intervjuer med experter såg vi flera indikationer på att den använda metoden är ett bra sätt att uppskatta hållbarhetsprioriteringar på. Vi presenterar kartor över hållbarhetsfokus runt om i världen (i avsnitt 4.12). Dessutom analyserar vi resultaten på djupet. En intressant upptäckt är att länder generellt inte prioriterar ett problem mer om problemet är allvarligare i det landet utan snarare tvärtom. Länder prioriterar ett problem mer om problemet är av lägre allvarlighetsgrad i det landet. Till exempel ser vi att cirkularitetsfokuset i offentliga upphandlingar är mindre i länder med sämre avfallshantering. Att analysera hållbarhetsfokus i upphandlingsdokument har inte tidigare gjorts på denna skala såvitt vi känner till. Vi tror våra resultat kan bidra till en bättre förståelse av hållbarhetsprioriteringar runt om i världen. text classification zero-shot learning dataless classification sustainability public procurement IT equipment machine learning artificial intelligence sustainability certification TCO Certified textklassificering zero-shot inlärning datalös klassificering hållbarhet offentlig upphandling IT produkter maskininlärning artificiell intelligens hållbarhetscertifiering TCO Certified Computer and Information Sciences Data- och informationsvetenskap
252	Kommunalt handlingsutrymme för att öka byggandet i trä : En studie av planeringsförutsättningar / Municipal possibilities and constraints to increase building in wood : A study of planning conditions Kalén, Victoria January 2017 (has links) Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka kunskapen om vilka förutsättningar som påverkar kommunernas handlingsutrymme att styra mot ökat byggande i trä. Utgångspunkten är att ökat byggande i trä är en viktig hörnsten i Sveriges arbete för att nå klimatmål om minskade koldioxidutsläpp. I fallstudie undersöker jag Växjö och Skellefteå kommun som sedan länge arbetat aktivt med att öka byggande i trä och båda antagit kommunala träbyggandsstrategier. I fallstudie undersöker jag hur såväl kontextuella (projektspecifika och informella förutsättningar) som formella förutsättningar påverkar kommunens handlingsutrymme. Resultatet visar att processer för att identifiera planförutsättningar och överbrygga olika perspektiv är avgörande för att skapa ett kontextuellt handlingsutrymme. Resultatet visar vidare att kontextuella förutsättningar även har potential att till viss del skapa handlingsutrymme utanför det formella handlingsutrymmets ”uppenbara” ramar. / The aim of this study in to increase the knowledge of municipal possibilities and constraints to increase building in wood by examining the municipal planning conditions. Point of departure is that building in wood is a prerequisite to reach the Swedish climate targets of drastically reducing national CO2-emissions. In a case study two municipalities are examined, Växjö and Skellefteå, two municipalities with strategies to increase building in wood and with long experience in doing so. The study explores how contextual planning conditions (project specific and informal conditions) alongside formal planning conditions affects the municipal space of action. The result shows that processes to identify planning conditions and to bridge different perspectives are crucial in order to create a contextual space of action. The result further demonstrates that contextual planning condition withhold the potential to, to a certain degree, create space of action outside the presupposed boundaries of the formal planning system. sustainable construction sustainable urban development sustainable urban planning spatial planning strategical planning planning conditions bio economy wood construction wood building municipal governance governance municipal space of action policy climate carbon dioxide emissions life cycle perspective triple helix forum arena court planning conditions public procurement public construction contract hållbar stadsbyggnad hållbar stadsutveckling hållbar stadsplanering fysisk planering strategisk planering bioekonomi träbyggnation träbyggnad kommunal styrning kommunalt handlingsutrymme formellt handlingsutrymme kontextuellt handlingsutrymme styrmedel policy forskning och utveckling plan- och bygglagen governance klimat koldioxidutsläpp livscykelperspektiv byggprocessens klimatpåverkan trippel helix forum arena court planeringsförutsättningar markanvisning offentlig upphandling byggentreprenad Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
253	De grundläggande rättsprinciperna vid direktupphandling : HFD 2018 ref. 60 och EU-rätten / The General Principles of Swedish Direct Awards : HFD 2018 ref. 60 and EU Law Lignell, Elias January 2022 (has links) This thesis examines the general principles in European Union (EU) public procurement law, as they apply to Swedish direct awards of low value, outside the scope of the EU procurement directives. A combination of Swedish and EU legal methodology is used to investigate two overarching themes. Firstly, the two different legal bases of the general principles, in the light of the Court of Justice of the EU’s definition of cross-border interest, as well as the Swedish implementation. Secondly, the central substantive consequences imposed by the principles on direct awards. The only national precedent on the subject, HFD 2018 ref. 60 of the Supreme Administrative Court, is both utilised and criticised against the backdrop of EU law to paint a picture of the principles’ inner workings in a direct award context. Pertaining to the first theme, an analysis of the applicability of EU primary law on direct awards is undertaken in order to distinguish the legal bases of the principles. If a contract is of certain cross-border interest, the general principles flow directly from EU law. In the absence of such an interest, the principles are exclusively based in Swedish law, which nationally extends the EU principles to all procurement (gold-plating). Overall, contracts valued below a quarter of the applicable EU directive threshold usually lack certain cross-border interest, unless there are concrete indications of the opposite. As a result, most direct awards fall outside the scope of EU law. An awareness of the legal bases of the principles is relevant to avoid breaches of EU primary law. It is argued that the Swedish gold-plated implementation of the general principles causes unnecessary uncertainty, and that separate national principles should be introduced outside the scope of EU primary law. As for the second theme, a thorough analysis concludes that the principles do not prohibit direct awards given without any exposure to competition, as long as the contracts are of low enough value. Direct awards can therefore be conducted through direct contact with a single supplier, in accordance with the legislative aims of the procedure. This may not be the case for social and other specific services of relatively high value. Nonetheless, the principles still affect direct awards, for instance in prohibiting flagrant cases of differential treatment without objective justification, based in arbitrary or corrupt decision-making. Unfortunately, these requirements are able to be circumvented due to the wide discretion given to procuring entities. On the other hand, if a direct award procedure is voluntarily advertised, the principles have greater practical significance. Still, the requirements in such cases are more lenient than in ordinary procurement procedures. public procurement government procurement direct award Sweden general principles legal principles EU law primary law CJEU ECJ certain cross-border interest threshold gold plating procedure competition low value contract offentlig upphandling upphandlingsrätt LOU LUF direktupphandling grundläggande rättsprinciper grundläggande principer allmänna principer upphandlingsrättsliga principer principer för direktupphandling upphandlingsprinciperna HFD 2018 ref. 60 EU-rätt primärrätt överskjutande implementering bestämt gränsöverskridande intresse kravet på insyn likabehandlingsprincipen icke-diskriminering proportionalitetsprincipen öppenhetsprincipen konkurrensprincipen olikbehandling likabehandling nationella principer frivillig annonsering direkttilldelning icke-direktivstyrd direktupphandlingsgräns tröskelvärde lågt värde anbudsinfordran konkurrensutsättning icke-konkurrensutsatt 19 a kap 19 a kap. 8 § rättsmedel överprövning obligatoriska krav sammanblandning EUF-fördraget FEUF EU-domstolen EU-rättslig metod rättsdogmatisk metod effet utile teleologisk tolkning affärsmässighet handlingsfrihet rättssäkerhet korruption Law Juridik Law (excluding Law and Society)

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