Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities Summary of a Workshop (2012) / Chapter Skim
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is working to integrate sustainability into its purchasing decisions. The Section 13 Interagency Working Group, created under Section 13 of EO 13514, is evaluating the feasibility of working with the federal vendor and contractor community to provide information to assist agencies in tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)
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The partnership resulted from a GSA report that found sustainability considerations, especially GHG emissions data, should be used in the federal procurement process, and that agencies should engage the vendor community to track and reduce GHG emissions through a collaborative, transparent, and deliberative process. 2 The Section 13 Interagency Working Group is currently evaluating and recommending ways to advance sustainable acquisition throughout the federal government, Ms.
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Ms. Kinn Bennett noted that the subgroup's work has had several phases, including grounding; developing draft guidelines; assessing the guidelines using a survey of standards and consultation among federal agencies; holding listening sessions with stakeholders; and preparing a report.
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Silverman, DOE relies heavily on its contractors to implement and integrate sustainability into procurement decisions; the agency establishes requirements, but contractors are responsible for implementing them. DOE also relies heavily on effective communication and information exchange; for example, the agency has an ongoing working group with hundreds of active members who regularly exchange information on best practices.
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His department directly purchases, funds, or influences purchases related to health care, food, drugs, and biomedical research; however, NIH has few sustainable criteria for these products and no effective tools to help make such purchases more sustainable, he noted. The information on sustainable purchasing that is available consists primarily of static reference documents distributed across many separate Web sites, which typically cannot be applied by procurement professionals to perform, facilitate, or track purchasing transactions.
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The list would inventory substances by their chemical abstract service registry number to reduce synonym confusion, be derived from other well-established listings such as EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) 3 or the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Safer Products lists,4 and characterize the listed substance as banned or restricted in certain uses.
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These considerations are critical for meeting net zero goals that are becoming more widely adopted, Captain Rau said.5 He described his view of the elements that would be included in an effective sustainability-oriented procurement tool. It would provide an authoritative, one-stop sustainable shopping reference for all products and services, be very centralized, and be automated.
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