Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.88
Liaison	Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Submission Date	June 3, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Polytechnique Montréal
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.35 / 6.00	Shirley Fagnen Sustainable Development Advisor Sustainable Development Office

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This credit requires:

A completed STARS Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory,
An itemized inventory based on output from the Real Food Calculator, or
An alternative inventory that includes for each product:

Product vendor
Product label/brand
Product description
The category in which the product qualifies (Third Party Verified or Local & Community Based)
Information justifying inclusion: the standards met if the product is third party verified; ownership, size, distance, production methods for Local & Community Based products

Part 1

Third Party Verified and Community Based Products

Percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on products that are third party verified under one or more recognized food and beverage sustainability standards or Local & Community-Based:

6.58

Part 2

Animal Products

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on conventional animal products)? (If data is not available, respond “No”):

Percentage of total dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional animal products (meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, and dairy products that do NOT qualify in either the Third Party Verified or Local & Community-Based category):

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Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory

Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

A brief description of the sustainable food and beverage purchasing program, including how the sustainability impacts of products in specific categories are addressed (e.g. meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, dairy, produce, tea/coffee):

Polytechnique Montréal does not have a specific program in place. The contract with Aramark, the dining services contractor, specified that coffee and tea must be fair trade certified. Regarding organic or locally sourced products, there is no clear specification. Aramark themselves integrate certified food and choose fruit and vegetable distributors who try to integrate locally sourced products when possible.

An inventory of the institution’s sustainable food and beverage purchases that includes for each product: the description/type; label, brand or producer; and the category in which it is being counted and/or a description of its sustainability attribute(s):

OP7_Polytechnique Montreal inventory_vfinal.xlsx

A brief description of the methodology used to conduct the inventory, including the timeframe and how representative samples accounted for seasonal variation (if applicable):

Data for fiscal year 2017-2018 was collected with the help of Aramark, who operates Polytechnique's food services. The Aramark team did data mining in their order management system, SYSCO. They also started to build a database with information regarding the different sustainability certifications that the products they purchase may have and the source of these products. As for the proportion of food purchases that are made through local distributors, without being centralised within the SYSCO system, data collection was carried out with these local distributors. They provided the financial data and the source of products sold for Polytechnique (for fruit and vegetables, the proportion of locally sourced products varies with the season, so the distributors provided a letter to confirm the amounts). Only products with third party verification (fairtrade, organic, MSC, etc...) were taken into consideration. Even though some local distributors include information about the product being locally produced or not, it was assumed they were not "community based".

If uploading output from the Real Food Calculator, provide:

Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food A (0-100):

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Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food B (0-100):

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Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

Which of the following food service providers are present on campus and included in the total food and beverage expenditure figures?:

	Present?	Included?
Dining operations and catering services operated by the institution	No	No
Dining operations and catering services operated by a contractor	Yes	Yes
Student-run food/catering services	No	No
Franchises (e.g. national or global brands)	No	No
Convenience stores	Yes	No
Vending services	Yes	No
Concessions	No	No

Optional Fields

A brief description of purchased food and beverage products that have other sustainability attributes not recognized above :

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Additional percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional products with other sustainability attributes not recognized above (0-100) :

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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.