Koncern IT of the City of Copenhagen, Denmark, joins CFIT as a procuring participant

Koncern IT is responsible for the municipality’s shared IT services, supporting employees and institutions across Copenhagen with workplace IT, core systems, and common digital platforms. It ensures stable day-to-day operations while coordinating how IT is standardised, secured, and managed across the organisation.

As part of this role, Koncern IT is closely involved in procurement and supplier management. It works with framework agreements, defines requirements, and oversees how IT solutions are delivered and maintained. This places procurement at the centre of how the city balances reliability, cost, and longer-term considerations such as resource use and responsible sourcing.

The City of Copenhagen has set clear ambitions to reduce the climate impact of its procurement, with ICT identified as an important area. Decisions on hardware, software, and services influence both direct use and upstream impacts, making IT procurement a practical lever to support these goals.

By joining CFIT, an action under the One Planet SPP Programme, Koncern IT connects with public organisations and expert supporting organisations working on similar challenges. Within CFIT, participants exchange practical experience and work towards greater alignment in procurement approaches, while translating this experience into the CFIT Recommendations. These provide practical approaches that organisations can apply in procurement to strengthen circularity, improve transparency, and address fair conditions in ICT supply chains, while engaging suppliers in a more consistent way.

This is particularly relevant as CFIT expands its scope beyond workplace ICT to include the wider digital infrastructure, including data centres and related equipment, cloud services, software, and AI. For Koncern IT, these elements are part of the same IT landscape it helps manage, linking operational responsibility with procurement decisions over time. With Koncern IT joining, CFIT continues to bring together public organisations worldwide that use procurement as a strategic lever to address the broader impacts of ICT across both hardware and digital infrastructure, strengthening alignment and enabling more circular, fair, and responsible practices to scale.