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Keino offered free guidance and information on strategic management of public procuring, developing public procurement competence and cooperation and networking in public procurement.
The services of the KEINO competence center wew intended for those making and planning public procurements, as well as for the management of public organizations. The services were free.
The services were:
KEINO developed the know-how of procurers and offers advice regarding sustainable and innovative public procurement. Purchasers could directly contact the free advisory service, which provided information on, for example, how to proceed in the preparation of sustainable or innovative procurement. The advice offered by KEINO concernd the procurement planning phase: needs mapping, market mapping, formulation of goals, results or criteria, verification options, contract terms and impact assessment.
The competence center also assisted in communicating procurement goals and operating model within the procurement unit's own organization.
Change agents acted as local contact persons of the competence center and brought KEINO's operations and support closer to practical operators.
KEINO Competence centre facilitated several so-called buyer groups, consisting public purchasing authorities with common needs. The buyer groups aimed at speed up the development and implementation of new ways of working, solutions and methods of scaling up best practices and innovative solutions. At the same time enhancing the capabilities to conduct sustainable and innovative procurement.
The green deal is a voluntary procurement-focused contract model that a procurement unit makes with the ministry. The procurement green deal is a new model in Finland. The contract model has been developed in co-operation with procurement units and ministries. The green deal agreement supports the procurement units’ achieving their strategic goals. KEINO provides support for the preparation and implementation of the green deal agreement.
KEINO academy was a free development program on the strategic management of sustainable and innovative public procurement. It was intended especially for the management of procurement units and those who make purchases.
Theme Academies were in-depth development programs for managing the effectiveness of public procurement. They focused on a specific theme or strategic goal.
Innovation Broker was an international operating model that aims to increase the quantity and quality of innovative public procurement by identifying and gathering procurement data of procurement entities and innovation data of companies.
