McGill University
OP-13: Vendor Code of Conduct

The University is currently undertaking a review of its purchasing practices, which will lead to the implementation of a purchasing policy. Purchasing Services has put appropriate measures in place in the current tender documents to ensure compliance with "An Act Respecting Contracting by Public Bodies". The following clause is also currently included in the Call for Tenders: "Environmental and Sustainable Development McGill University has adopted an environmental policy, stating its commitment to environmentally sound principles in its operations. These principles include: the reduction in the use of energy and materials, the negotiation of environmentally-friendly purchasing contracts where feasible, and the principles of “rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle” with an emphasis on options to reduce and reuse. To review the complete policy please visit the following site: http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/policies/policy/ McGill University shall strive to be recognized as an environmentally safe and responsible institution of learning and as a model of environmentally responsible living. To this end, the McGill University community shall make every reasonable effort to: i. prevent the over consumption of energy and other resources and to reduce the production of waste and the release of substances harmful to the biosphere; ii. maintain purchasing policies which favor environmentally-benign, post-consumer, bio-degradable, and non-toxic products wherever possible; iii. encourage all members of the McGill community to be environmentally aware and to well publicize the University's Environmental Policy; iv. encourage all members of the McGill community to re-think, reduce, re-use and/or recycle prior to making a procurement decision. Given the costs that recycling entails, options to reduce and re-use shall always be considered first; and v. seek additional ways of achieving our goal of being environmentally safe and responsible. Bidders must provide a separate list of all environmentally friendly products that are being offered as part of this bid process and state how these goods and services conform to points (i) through (v) above and the McGill Environmental Policy. "