Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 72.81
Liaison Ian Johnson
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Colorado College
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.66 / 1.00 Laura Schreiber
Administrative Assistant
Office of Information Technology
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Total annual expenditures on electronics:
550,000 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on environmentally or socially preferable electronics:
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold registered and/or third party certified at the highest achievable level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 300,000 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver registered and/or third party certified at mid-level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 0 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze registered and/or third party certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 0 US/Canadian $
Labeled under a single-attribute standard 250,000 US/Canadian $

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
No

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:

During the specified period, our standard models were:

• Standard PC desktop: Intel NUC
o Can’t find any evidence of EPEAT certification, but these devices are extremely energy efficient.
• Standard PC laptop: Dell latitude 5000 series
o EPEAT Gold
• Standard Mac laptop: Macbook Air (intel)
o No EPEAT certification.
• Standard Mac desktop
o No EPEAT certification.

Since December 2020, we’ve changed our standards:

• Standard PC desktop: Dell Precision workstations, 3000 series
o EPEAT Gold
• Standard PC laptop: Dell latitude 5000 series
o EPEAT Gold
• Standard Mac laptop: Macbook Air (M1)
o EPEAT Gold
• Standard Mac desktop: 24” iMac (M1)
o No EPEAT certification.


Website URL where information about the institution’s electronics purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Additional documentation to support the submission link:

https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/its/guides/purchase-technology/cc-owned.html


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