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166 CHAPTER 7 ■ Choose Health in Food Vending Machines

TABLE 7-1 Proposal of Healthy Public Procurement for Vending Machines:
Synthesis of Evaluation Criteria and Score Attribution

Criteria for Evaluation Best Score
Economic Offer
a.1 Annual fee A.1*
a.2 Prices for consumers A.2*
Total 50
Qualitative Offer
b.1 Characteristics of the products 40
Fresh foods

• Fruit salad
• Fruits/vegetables
• Sandwich with ham
• Yogurt with active milk enzymes
Fruit juices with 70% fruit content
Local products (fruits, vegetables, and water)
Biological products

Fair trade foods
b.2 Service utilities 6
b.3 Quality certifications 4
Total 50
*The proposal described earlier in this chapter was one of the first attempts to include
in public procurements the quality of the products sold through vending machines
between the criteria requested to the service. Note that a.1 refers to the amount of
the rent that vending firms can pay to the public administration for the installation of
vending machines; a.2 refers to the prices for the consumers of the products sold
through the vending machines. The attribution of single scores to the a.1 and a.2
criteria (called A.1 and A.2 in the table) is decided by the public administration
taking into account the economic and geographical characteristics of context.