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Part A: Green Procurement Capacity Building
Activity | 2008-09 Level as % |
2010-11 Level as % |
Description/Comments |
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1a. Training for Procurement and Material Management Staff | 25% | 60% | The availability of an online course from the Canada School of Public Service facilitates meeting the target for Procurement and Material Management staff. |
1b. Training for Acquisition Cardholders | 3% | 20% | The online course from the Canada School of Public Service facilitates meeting the target. New acquisition card holders are advised of the training. Options to meet this target include communications and mandatory training for new cardholders. |
2. Performance Evaluations | - | 75% | The Department is working towards including environmental considerations into the performance agreements of managers and functional heads of procurement and material. At this stage, we are considering how to capture the necessary information for these evaluations. |
3. Procurement Processes and Controls | - | - | The Department considers environmental performance in all acquisitions through taking into consideration the full life cycle management of the goods we are acquiring. In addition to the use of Green Procurement, control bodies such as IT Governance take environmental considerations into account, while Ste. Anne's Hospital complies with all applicable environmental regulatory clauses. The Department is working towards formally integrating these into our approval and control processes. |
Part B: Use of Green Consolidated Procurement Instruments
Good/Service | 2008-09 Level as $ |
2010-11 Level as % |
Description/Comments |
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The foundation for the Department's Green Procurement Policy is the use of Green Procurement standing offers where possible. | - | - | In the past, Financial and Procurement systems have not provided sufficient information to establish a baseline. The Department is implementing a new procurement system which is attempting to capture green procurement data which will be used to establish a baseline for future years. |