So as to evaluate the ‘number of countries implementing a sustainable public procurement policy and action plans’, a specific threshold above which a country will be considered as having a sound Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) policy or action plan has been set, to determine whether this country will be considered compliant with the indicator in the final calculation of SDG Indicator 12.7.1.

It is proposed that this assessment is based on the evaluation of a national government’s SPP implementation level, scope and comprehensiveness, through the appraisal of 6 specific parameters (described in the table below), which will lead to the calculation of a Government SPP Implementation Score.

SPP Implementation Score $= A_{} \times \sum_{i = B}^{F} i_{} = A_{} \times \sum \{B_{} \dots F_{}\}$

Table 1: Description of parameters and scoring used for the assessment of SPP implementation

Denoted as:	Parameter and sub-indicators	Scoring
A	Existence of a SPP action plan/policy, and/or SPP regulatory requirements. 0 means no SPP policy in place, 1 means existence of SPP action plan, policy and/or SPP regulatory requirements at national, local or both levels.	0 or 1
B	Public procurement regulatory framework conducive to sustainable public procurement.	0 to 1
C	Practical support delivered to public procurement practitioners in the implementation of SPP.	0 to 1
D	SPP purchasing criteria/ buying standards / requirements.	0 to 1
E	Existence of a SPP monitoring system.	0 to 1
F	Percentage of sustainable purchase of priority products/services.	0-100%

It is proposed that the specific threshold above which a country is considered as having a sound SPP policy or action plan and considered compliant with SDG 12.7.1. indicator is set at a score equal to 1.

Five classification groups are proposed to classify submissions received, and reflect the different stages in the advancement of SPP implementation:

SPP Implementation Classification Groups

Level 0: Insufficient data or insufficient implementation of SPP policy/ action plan (SPP Implementation Score below 1), therefore not complying with the expected set level of implementation.

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Level 1: Low level of SPP implementation (SPP Implementation Score ranging from 1 to 2).

Level 2: Medium-low level of SPP implementation (SPP Implementation Score ranging from 2 to 3).

Level 3: Medium-high level of SPP implementation (SPP Implementation Score ranging from 3 to 4).

Level 4: High level of SPP implementation (SPP Implementation Score larger than 4).

The full calculations and explanation of the index can be found in the attached SPP Index methodology.

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