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The Guidebook

  1. Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. Background
  4. Reducing the impact of Procurement
  5. Pre-qualification and tendering
  1. Working with suppliers on a long-term basis
  2. Introducing sustainable purchasing to your organisation
  3. Further reading and initiatives
  4. Resources

Resources:

Product information on UK Government’s Office of Government Commerce

( http://www.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk/environmental/products/environmental_quickwins.asp)

“With the recent publication of the Energy White Paper on sustainable procurement by Government, the pressing issue is to make it easy for public sector customers to locate and buy energy efficient products. Certain product areas have been acknowledged as ‘Quick Wins’ – where particular standards should be met immediately.

In response to this paper, we have prepared a downloadable list of environmentally friendly products that are available from our GCat and Portfolio catalogues to help you identify products that meet the following Quick Win Specifications:

To examine these issues see:

http://www.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk/environmental/downloads/Table_050303.doc (Word file 103Kb

 

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*Canny: "knowing, skilful, shrewd, lucky, careful in money matters, harmless"
[Chambers definition] summarises all the benefits of sustainable procurement