Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.45
Liaison Austin Sutherland
Submission Date May 1, 2014
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STARS v1.2

University of Pennsylvania
OP-10: Computer Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.83 / 2.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

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 :

Penn’s Computing Green Information Technology (IT) program has established recommended guidelines for IT purchases that include Energy Star 5.0 compliant desktops and replacing CRT monitors with LCD monitors. Penn uses an EPEAT system to help compare and select electronics.


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 :
5,041,000 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on EPEAT Silver desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
136,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
650,000,000 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The above ($5.2M) is out of a total client computer spend of approximately $6-7M. We cannot determine with precision, because we do not have the exact data on which computers were retained and used by Penn versus student computers.


The above ($5.2M) is out of a total client computer spend of approximately $6-7M. We cannot determine with precision, because we do not have the exact data on which computers were retained and used by Penn versus student computers.

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