Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.89
Liaison Julie Newman
Submission Date Oct. 23, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.91 / 1.00 MIT Office of Sustainability
Director
Office of Sustainability
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Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers, displays, thin clients, tablets/slates, televisions, and imaging equipment:
5,533,567 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on EPEAT registered desktop and laptop computers, displays, thin clients, tablets/slates, televisions, and imaging equipment::
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold 5,019,643.91 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver 0 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze 0 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on electronic products that are EPEAT Gold registered:
90.71

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
No

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
Figures were computed using available data and represent only a portion of the electronics purchased at MIT. The total spend figure provided represents eligible electronics purchases made through the e-catalog system during FY17. For this dataset, EPEAT certification information was only available for items that MIT cumulatively spent more than $10,000 on throughout the year. 98% of these highest spend electronics were EPEAT Gold certified. For the lower spend electronics, for which EPEAT certification data was unavailable (33% of items), an assumption was made that 75% were EPEAT gold certified.

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The data used in this analysis were sourced from IT and printing purchases made through MIT's e-catalog system. While many purchases are made via the e-catalog system, MIT department, centers, and labs also procure goods through other channels. Accordingly, the scope of this analysis is limited.

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