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Has the department incorporated environmental performance considerations in its procurement decision-making processes?
In progress |
Summary of initiatives to incorporate environmental performance considerations in procurement decision-making processes:
Results achieved:
Performance management agreements have continued to include the contribution of, and support for green procurement policy objectives.
Green procurement training (for material managers and procurement personnel) chosen: Campusdirect course on Green Procurement (course already developed by and available from Canada School of Public Service)
Contributions to facilitate government-wide implementation of green procurement:
In its role as identified in the Policy on Green Procurement, NRCan contributed expertise to Public Works and Government Services Canada for a number of purposes to facilitate government-wide implementation, including but not limited to the:
Has the department established green procurement targets?
In progress |
Are these green procurement targets the same as those identified in your Sustainable Development Strategy?
Yes |
Summary of green procurement targets:
Results achieved:
The Shared Services Office (SSO) has "paper-reduction" projects underway that are expected to result in significantly less paper used in 2009-10, e.g. completion of amendment phase of e-procurement (rolled out February 2008), full ramp up of electronic procurement request system to replace paper submissions. Related to "paper-reduction", the SSO completed a pilot project for the reduction of printing devices which involved removing a number of local printers as well as replacing other printers with more efficient ones. Along with reducing paper usage by making printers less convenient, there are also energy savings resulting from this printer reduction initiative.