Abstract
In interpreting sustainable public procurement, reference is made to the opinions of several stakeholders in order to underline the fact that market players today apply a substantially broader interpretation of sustainability in public procurement than 10 years ago. In the traditional sense, sustainability in public procurement means the assertion of green, social and economic criteria. We wish to question the commonplace, according to which the assertion of sustainability criteria is an indicator of the advanced state of public procurement. We argue this in the sense that when a government or contracting authority is able to implement a truly sustainable public procurement policy, it is then the result of the interaction of several levels of development and a fortunate as well as successful strategy. We use the model by Telgen et al. (2007, p. 20) to demonstrate that truly sustainable public procurement is possible only above a certain level of development.
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