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Background
With over 226 000 inhabitants the City of Lille, together with the associated towns Helemmes and Lommes, is the largest in the North of France. Despite this relatively small population, the City of Lille is part of France's fourth largest metropolitan area called "Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine" - consisting of Lille and 85 suburban municipalities and comprising more than 1,1 million inhabitants (2005).
The City of Lille, one of the pioneer cities on sustainable development in France, is a signatory to the Charter of European Cities & Towns Towards Sustainability (1995) and to the Aalborg Commitments (2004).
In 2000, Lille became one of the first French cities to implement Local Agenda 21 and since then has undertaken 180 projects and more than 500 activities in the field of sustainable development. Several major campaigns have been carried out in the framework of Agenda21, such as the Water Campaign (2001-2002), the Food Campaign (2003-2004), the Campaign "Lille Ville Nature" and in 2007 the Campaign "Acting together for a sustainable and fair city". Lille is integrating sustainable procurement into these campaigns. In 2004 Lille joined ICLEI's European Procura+ Campaign on Sustainable Procurement and since April 2007 has been the Chair of the Campaign.
The most important tender in recent years has been the city's street, façade and passage way lighting which involved the Public Lighting Service of the city of Lille, five bidders and several subcontractors (such as SEPI, SEV, LUMIVER, SMDR). External technical expertise was provided by HEXA Engineering. The contract involved a budget of 35,2 million EUR - 4,4 million EUR per year.
The winning bidder ETDE, is an affiliated company of the Bouygues Construction group with branches all over the world. ETDE/SOSIDEC is active in the field of utility networks construction and services (lighting systems and illumination of buildings), electrical, mechanical and HVAC3 engineering, facility management real estate (performance of building) and telecommunications. Even though the group was starting to make headway in terms of environmental performance by progressively integrating environmental considerations into its global strategy, the contract signed with Lille was the first real eco-solution developed by ETDE.
Lille's old lighting systems will also be made more energy efficient and transferred to Lille's twinning town in Senegal, Saint-Louis. Local engineers will be taught by Lille's technical services department on how to construct and manage the old lighting system.
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