Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.70
Liaison Kelly Wellman
Submission Date Dec. 2, 2021

STARS v2.2

Texas A&M University
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.22 / 1.00 Dean Endler
Executive Director
Contract Administration
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Total annual expenditures on electronics:
13,011,393 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 2,626,921 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver registered and/or third party certified at mid-level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 50,253 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze registered and/or third party certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 285,040 US/Canadian $
Labeled under a single-attribute standard 0 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:
University's fiscal year 2021 - 09/01/20-08/31/21 purchases of Dell & Apple products.

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Website URL where information about the institution’s electronics purchasing is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Apple maintains distinct EPEAT designations for each of its products.
apple.com/environment/#reports-product - see Endnotes on each for respective rating. All Apple items purchased by Texas A&M in FY21 are EPEAT Gold rated. Dell products' EPEAT ratings found on reseller's website (BestBuy, Staples, etc).

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