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Interview with Procura+ Award winner Transport for London published

Transport for London (TfL) took home the Procura + Award in the category of "Innovation procurement of the year" in Malmච(Sweden) on 30 November, thanks to an impressive procurement that saw the British capital's public transport operator reduce the whole life-cycle cost associated with lighting the expansive London Underground network. In an interview with procurement magazine Public Spend Forum, Dr Carl Leon of TfL explains what made the procurement especially innovative.

"We took a look at how we spend public money on products and services, and applied a brand new approach to how we procure them, focusing on whole life-cycle costs," says Dr Leon. "By brigading our future spend on lighting "“ creating economies of scale to offer to the market "“ we were able to inspire potential suppliers to invest in the effort and the research required to develop technologies that are more economically advantageous for us, and more sustainable than any of the products currently installed on the TfL network."

Dr Leon goes on to say that: ""Innovating to encourage more environmentally friendly products affects a market wider than just TfL. Because we are working with industry to design products that are greener and more cost-effective in an operational environment, that knowledge is distributed to others world-wide. We'd like to see the methodology we developed applied by public bodies to achieve savings."

To read the interview in full, click here.

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