Sustainable Public Procurement in Portugal – State of the Art and Future Prospects journal article Manuel da Silva Gomes European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 8 (2013), Issue 1, Page 60 - 72 I. Introduction This report comments on the most relevant issues of Sustainable Public Procurement (“SPP”) in the Portuguese legal system, looking in particular at the social and environmental criteria used in the context of public procurement.1 Generally speaking, in Portugal, “social” criteria have not, so far, achieved the success that the “environmental” criteria have known, which, although relatively recent, has effectively contributed to the pro