Introduction and Overview › Glossary for the Networking Language · 2 min read
Public procurement encompasses the purchase of goods and services by public institutions.
This includes, among others:
Public procurement thereby influences a significant portion of a society's food supply.
In the TEIKEI understanding, public procurement is a strategic tool for developing regional supply structures.
Every public institution generates a continuous demand for food.
When these needs are regionally bundled and planned long-term, reliable sales opportunities emerge for agricultural businesses, processing companies, and regional logistics.
Public procurement thus becomes part of a regional supply infrastructure.
Many individual kitchens often do not have sufficient quantities or organizational capacity to collaborate directly with regional businesses.
Through regional bundling, the needs of various institutions can be combined.
This creates larger, predictable flows of goods, making regional production economically more attractive.
At the same time, regional collection warehouses, processing businesses, and logistics can be shared.
Not every region can produce all food itself.
Some regions specialize in certain crops or have particular climatic conditions.
Therefore, the TEIKEI network connects regional supply with European collaboration.
In principle, food is sourced from the local supply region whenever possible.
What cannot be produced there on a permanent basis can be supplemented through other regions of the European network.
This creates long-term relationships between:
This keeps value creation and responsibility as close as possible to the participating regions while simultaneously building a resilient European supply system.
In the TEIKEI network, public procurement does not merely serve the supply of individual institutions.
It creates reliable demand and thus forms an economic foundation for regional agriculture, processing, storage, and logistics.
Through joint coordination, public institutions can also:
A collectively organized public procurement strengthens:
It connects the daily supply of public institutions with the development of resilient food networks.
Public procurement is far more than the purchase of food. It can become the supporting demand of a regional food supply and connect independent supply regions through a European network.
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By Felix Schröder, with support from AI (ChatGPT)
Created on August 1, 2026 · Last updated on August 1, 2026
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