DirectorY OF SOCIAL ECONOMY COMPANIES
AND ORGANIZATIONS

DirectorY OF SOCIAL ECONOMY COMPANIES
AND ORGANIZATIONS

The search engine for social economy companies and organizations of Barcelona Activa and the Barcelona City Council with official data to promote socially sustainable public and private contracting.

 

 

The Social Economy directory is an aggregator of records, both official and catalogs driven by the social economy.

You will find cooperatives, associations, foundations, mutual societies, labor companies, insertion companies, special employment centers, and other companies. These are organizations of different legal forms that we can consider social economy organizations, following what is indicated by State Law 5/2011.

Promoted by Barcelona Activa, the municipal economic development agency of Barcelona, it aims to promote and facilitate sustainable public procurement and also sustainable private procurement.

We understand sustainability in a social key, not just environmental. That is, sustainable procurement is one that ensures positive impacts on its environment and therefore promotes inclusive employment, overcoming gender and other inequalities, and fostering plural, diverse economic ecosystems with values of social justice. According to the impact that the public policies of the Barcelona City Council want to promote, we also call it strategic procurement.

One of the difficulties in developing sustainable procurement, both public and private, is the lack of knowledge about whether there will be social economy companies that offer the goods and services we need. The Social Economy Directory aims to be a tool to overcome this difficulty and provides a search engine for companies and organizations related to economic activity sectors.

It aims to be especially a tool for different public entities and help them develop sustainable procurement, whether exploring the possibility of making reserved procurement for insertion companies and special employment centers of social initiative (or, more innovatively, for social economy organizations with provision 48th), as well as for the application of clause 3.1, relating to subcontracting to the social economy, or for other explorations of the social market. In this line, from Barcelona Activa we also offer personalized advice to the municipal entities of the Barcelona City Council to apply these or other sustainable public procurement measures.

The directory is also at the service of private companies or individuals with the same intention of making sustainable procurements.

What data does it contain?

The Social Economy Directory includes organizations registered in the official records of the Generalitat of Catalonia related to organizations that State Law 5/2011 stipulates as part of the social economy:

The data resulting from all these records is cross-referenced with the specific catalogs or directories created by second-level social economy organizations in Catalonia, in order to complement and enrich the previous records by providing information about the networking or social action of numerous organizations:  

Organizations that are in more than one register (official and unofficial) appear in a prioritized order in relation to the others.

How to perform a search?

Keyword: Type a keyword and the search engine will show you all the directory entries that contain that word in any of the fields (except the address field, as it could be confusing). Note: it performs an exact search, so if you type more than one word, it will search for that exact group of words, not independently.

Sector and Subsector: Select one or more sectors and the subsectors will be displayed.

Social reserve: You can ask the search engine to show you only Insertion Companies and Special Work Centers. To select both categories, hold down the Ctr key. If you want to make a reserved contract, remember that you must check if the Special Work Centers are social initiatives. You can request advice on how to make a reserved contract at contractaciosostenible@barcelonactiva.cat.

NIF/CIF: Useful if you are looking for a specific organization.

Legal Name: This is the legal name of the company or organization. Remember that the search engine performs exact searches.

Province, County, and Municipality: These will help you search in specific territories. Remember that this is a Catalonia-wide directory.

How to perform a search?

Keyword: Type a keyword and the search engine will show you all the directory entries that contain that word in any of the fields (except the address field, as it could be confusing). Note: it performs an exact search, so if you type more than one word, it will search for that exact group of words, not independently.

Sector and Subsector: Select one or more sectors and the subsectors will be displayed.

Type of Organization: You can ask the search engine to show you only Insertion Companies and Special Employment Centers. To select both categories, hold down the Ctrl+Alt keys. If you want to make a reserved contract, remember to check if the Special Employment Centers are social initiative.

NIF/CIF: Useful if you are looking for a specific organization.

Legal Name: This is the legal name of the company or organization. Remember that the search engine performs exact searches.

Province, County, and Municipality: These will help you search in specific territories. Remember that this is a Catalonia-wide directory.

What is the data update?

This directory publishes data from different records (each updated at different times, as stated above in this section) and when a company or organization requests a change in the data through the form, the request is attended to and the data is changed. Additionally, every 6 months, the entries and exits are cross-checked with the different records.

*This operation is a pilot, awaiting consolidation as the usual operation of this directory.

What to do if I want to change data about my organization?

Whether you want to change or expand data, write to us using this form.

El directori d’empreses i organitzacions de l'Economia Social és una eina dissenyada i gestionada des del Servei d’Assessorament en Contractació Pública Sostenible de Barcelona Activa, que ofereix:  

  • Formació i assessorament sobre com accedir a licitacions públiques. Adreçats a petites i mitjanes empreses, persones autònomes i entitats de l’economia social i cooperativa.  

  • Assessorament intern a les unitats de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, per facilitar la contractació a través de la reserva social i la incorporació de mesures de contractació socialment sostenible en els plecs de les licitacions.  

  • Acompanyament específic a empreses adjudicatàries per al compliment de les clàusules:  

  • 3.1, relativa a subcontractació a l’economia social: derivació de possibles proveïdores a subcontractar.  

  • 3.5, relativa a la contractació laboral de persones en situació d’atur amb especials dificultats per a la inserció social: derivació de candidats/es.  

  • Clàusula social de foment de la contractació laboral diversa: derivació de candidats/es.​​​​  

Tant si sou una unitat de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona i voleu assessorament en aquesta matèria com si sou una empresa que vol fer contractació sostenible en compliment contractual d’una adjudicació o per un altre motiu, podeu contactar-nos: contractaciosostenible@barcelonactiva.cat.