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Table 3: Green Procurement


How is your department planning to meet the objectives of the Policy on Green Procurement?

The Canada School will meet the objectives of the Policy on Green Procurement by:

  1. Reviewing its training documents to ensure that clients are familiar with the Policy on Green Procurement;
  2. Reviewing the Acquisition Card Policy to ensure that clients buy more with their acquisition card rather than using a purchase order or a contract;
  3. Meeting with clients to plan their yearly requirements in order to try and combine them and issuing standing offers and contracts with option years/periods in order to reduce the number of contracts issued in a year;
  4. Reviewing its contracts to reduce the number of pages to be printed and requesting that contracts be printed on both sides of each page;
  5. For the purchase of goods and services, reinforcing the purchase and/or rental of recycled and reused material; and
  6. Regularly updating the Green Procurement online course that is hosted on Campusdirect. This will be done in collaboration with the Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property (PMMRP) community to reflect future changes to the Green Procurement policy and practice.

Has your department established green procurement targets?

In progress    

Describe the green procurement targets that have been set by your department and indicate the associated benefits anticipated.

The above will result in a substantial reduction in paper usage.