Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.41
Liaison Sean MacInnes
Submission Date Dec. 15, 2011
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University of North Carolina, Greensboro
OP-10: Computer Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Trey McDonald
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability Office
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase EPEAT Silver or higher computers and monitors?:
Yes

The website URL where the EPEAT policy, directive, or guidelines are posted :
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :

Information Technology Services (ITS) promotes the purchase of EPEAT Gold and Energy Star compliant client technology devices through the campus-wide hardware procurement program.

All standard computers and monitors provided to staff by UNCG meet EPEAT Gold standards with the exception of one, a laptop that is rated EPEAT Silver. The campus must purchase from the inventory of UNC-approved standard hardware configurations and options. Employees may purchase non-standard computers if approved by ITS


Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on EPEAT computers)?:
Yes

Expenditures on EPEAT Gold desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
976,653 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on EPEAT Silver desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
1,686,630 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
2,663,283 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Information obtained from Elaine Ayers, Contract Manager, Purchasing Department.

To be conservative, because UNCG currently has no way to separate the iMAC purchases from the total of the Apple orders, all Apple products were designated as EPEAT Silver. All Apple products bought by UNCG meet EPEAT Silver, but many of them, including the iMACs, are EPEAT Gold.


Information obtained from Elaine Ayers, Contract Manager, Purchasing Department.

To be conservative, because UNCG currently has no way to separate the iMAC purchases from the total of the Apple orders, all Apple products were designated as EPEAT Silver. All Apple products bought by UNCG meet EPEAT Silver, but many of them, including the iMACs, are EPEAT Gold.

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