Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean

That meeting approved the establishment of the International Union of American Republics, and the stage was set for the weaving of a web of provisions and institutions that came to be known as the inter-American system, the oldest international institutional system. [...] The technical group in charge of capacity building included the DNCP, the Ministry of Education and Sciences, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, and the National Institute of Food and Nutrition. [...] The 2018 municipal legislation (Ordinance) confirmed that public procurers are now “part of the B ecosystem with the power to generate key tools and instruments to promote and foment the birth and growth of triple impact entrepreneurs and companies as part of the policy to address social and environmental great challenges in the country” (Government of Mendoza Municipality, 2018). [...] At the same time, the Department of Health and Security and the GPPD received market intelligence during the dialogues on the growing triple-impact potential in the local textiles industry, which encouraged them to include the demand for triple impact in the tender. [...] In this case, the existence of the Mendoza +B platform and the innovation ecosystem, with programs like Mendoza Emprende involving the University of Cuyo, contributed to the buy-in of both the private and public sectors for the vision of a sustainable economy.