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Table 7: Green Procurement

Meeting Policy Requirements

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:

  • Have support of the policy reflected in performance agreements for the second year running.
  • Plan to implement training and awareness activities, and a departmental protocol for green procurement so that all employees within the organization are aware of considerations, responsibilities and procedures and are applying these to departmental procurement.

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:

  • Development of the "Guideline – Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Departmental Procurement Management Frameworks"
  • Further refinement of the Performance Measurement Framework
  • Revisions of the Green Procurement Communications Plan
  • Planning for and development of materials for the first interdepartmental Green Procurement Forum.
  • Development of Green Procurement templates and plans for commodity reviews
  • Development of the "Guideline for Greening Services Procurement"

Green Procurement Targets

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:

  • Have consulted widely in the department as part of the engagement activities of the broader NRCan Green Operations initiative and in the context of implementation of the policy, in order to identify commodity areas that will form the basis of an initial round of target-setting, that in some cases present opportunities for improvement in the various phases of the life cycle.
  • The target areas identified are paper, internal printing and travel (a key area of high spend). These target areas have been endorsed by senior management (Departmental Management Committee). Potential approaches have been developed.
  • In the cases of paper and internal printing, the approaches and targets will be firmed up to enable commencement of further work to implement in 2009-10. This may also be the case for the area of travel.

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.

  • SSO plans to finalize research on the best way to measure the amount of paper usage (working with PWGSC since they are the buyer for all government).