Questions | Associations with: | Experience in awarding public contracts with ecological (or environmental) criteria | Tests results | ||
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Answers | Yes | No | Chi-squared p-value | Cramer V | |
It is socially useful to award “green public contracts”, i.e., contracts in which the evaluation criteria include an environmental criterion | Absolutely disagree | 1.7 | 1.5 | < 0.00001 | 0.22498 |
Somewhat disagree | 11.6 | 5.8 | |||
Do not know | 25.2 | 49.2 | |||
Somewhat agree | 49.3 | 37.2 | |||
Absolutely agree | 1.4 | 1.2 | |||
I am in favor of awarding public contracts that take into account the environmental criterion | Absolutely disagree | 1.4 | 1.2 | < 0.00001 | 0.17816 |
Somewhat disagree | 3.4 | 3.5 | |||
Do not know | 24.1 | 39.9 | |||
Somewhat agree | 49 | 44.5 | |||
Absolutely agree | 22.1 | 10.9 | |||
Personally, I would prefer to announce a tender for a cheaper contract (without environmental requirements) before awarding a more expensive public contract with environmental characteristics | Absolutely disagree | 2.4 | 1.8 | < 0.00001 | 0.16405 |
Somewhat disagree | 27.6 | 19.9 | |||
Do not know | 18.4 | 32.6 | |||
Somewhat agree | 37.1 | 37.4 | |||
Absolutely agree | 14.6 | 8.3 | |||
If I have information that a public contract with an environmental criterion increases the risk probability of an appeal to the Office for Protection of Competition, then I will clearly prefer the public contract without environmental criterion | Absolutely disagree | 2.4 | 2.4 | < 0.00001 | 0.15986 |
Somewhat disagree | 11.6 | 6.9 | |||
Do not know | 15.6 | 29.3 | |||
Somewhat agree | 41.5 | 41.1 | |||
Absolutely agree | 28.9 | 20.3 | |||
If the contract has the following evaluation criteria: “employment”, “support for local companies”, and “environmental impact of public procurement”, then I will always (or mostly) consider “environmental impact” as the most important criterion of public procurement | Absolutely disagree | 2 | 3.4 | 0.43 | 0.05853 |
Somewhat disagree | 25.9 | 26 | |||
Do not know | 28.6 | 31.8 | |||
Somewhat agree | 35.4 | 32.6 | |||
Absolutely agree | 8.2 | 6.2 | |||
If I want to include an environmental impact criterion in the contract, then I would classify it as a general obligation of the supplier under the contract | Absolutely disagree | 1.4 | 5.00 | < 0.00001 | 0.14812 |
Somewhat disagree | 6.8 | 5 | |||
Do not know | 15 | 26.7 | |||
Somewhat agree | 58.2 | 56.4 | |||
Absolutely agree | 18.7 | 10.9 |