| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 60.52 |
| Liaison | Lindsey MacDonald |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Western Washington University
OP-11: Sustainable Procurement
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.25 / 3.00 |
Seth
Vidaña Director of Sustainability Office of Sustainability |
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Part 1: Institution-Wide Policies
Yes
A copy of the policies, guidelines or directives:
The policies, guidelines or directives:
Excerpt from Vendor Code of Conduct:
"The University is committed to purchasing products and services whose environmental impacts are found to be less damaging to the environment and human health. The University expects suppliers to continuously develop price competitive and safe products and services that help us achieve our environmentally preferred purchasing objectives."
Part 2: Life Cycle Cost Analysis
No
Which of the following best describes the institution’s use of LCCA?:
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A brief description of the LCCA policy and/or practices:
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Part 3: Commodity-Specific Sustainability Criteria
To count, the criteria must address the specific sustainability challenges and impacts associated with products/services in each category, e.g. by requiring or giving preference to multi-criteria sustainability standards, certifications and labels appropriate to the category. Broader, institution-wide policies should be reported in Part 1, above.
Chemically Intensive Products and Services
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for chemically intensive products and services:
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Construction and Renovation
Yes
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for construction and renovation products:
Subject to Washington State policy defined in the Governor’s Executive Order 05-01. This order calls for construction of publicly funded buildings over 25,000 gross square feet to be “built and certified to the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Standard, or certified by the Department of General Administration (GA) to an equivalent standard."
Information Technology (IT)
Yes
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for IT products and services:
As required by state law under RCW 43.19.539, the Department of General Administration has established the following purchasing preferences for electronic products: 1) Purchasing activities will purchase gold rated EPEAT registered electronic products.When gold rated products are not available, are not life cycle cost efficient, and do not meet reasonable performance standards; the purchasing activity may acquire silver rated electronic products. Information including a searchable product registry on EPEAT-registered computer products is available at 68.168.250.188/EPEATwp/ . 2) Purchasing activities will acquire RoHS compliant electronic products; provided such products are available, are life cycle cost efficient, and meet reasonable performance requirements. RoHS compliant electronic products must carry the RoHS label or indicate in its product literature that RoHS requirements have been met. Information about RoHS requirements can be found at www.rohs.gov.uk. 3) When acquiring electronic products that do not have an EPEAT ranking or a RoHS certification, the purchasing activity must grant a preference to those products with the least hazardous materials. The purchasing activity may consider other product environmental certifications in their award criteria if the result would reduce or eliminate hazardous materials. 4) Agencies are encouraged to consult with their representative from DIS to identify the most current best practices used to extend the life of electronic equipment. This will minimize the environmental impact of hazardous materials in electronic products.
Food Services
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for food services:
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Garments and Linens
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for garments and linens:
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Professional Services
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for professional services:
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Transportation and Fuels
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for transportation and fuels:
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Wood and Paper
Yes
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for wood and paper products:
In 2009 The Washington State Legislature passed a House Bill requiring each state agency to:
-develop and implement a paper conservation program to reduce use of printing and copy paper by at least 30 percent of the current use.
-develop and implement a paper recycling program with the goal of recycling 100 percent of all copy and print-paper in all buildings with 25 employees or more.
-use 100 percent recycled-content white cut sheet bond paper. Copy paper for use by departments, computer labs and the copy centers is centrally purchased and distributed by Central Stores. Purchasing is first and foremost based on the OFM guidelines and secondly from state approved or university approved and contracted vendors.
-OFM has established contract # 09205 with Office Depot for the supply of copy paper to state agencies.
(Info taken from Paper Conservation Act of 2009.)
Other Commodity Categories
No
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for other commodity categories:
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Optional Fields
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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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