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Environmental Guidance for Procurement
We are committed to adopting good environmental practice. While always ensuring best value for money, procurement can play a vital role in assisting green policy objectives.
Some of the ways in which the department incorporates environmental factors into purchasing decisions are:-
- Wherever possible, when specifying goods, ensuring that less environmentally damaging products are referred to. A simple example would be when ordering furniture, any woods used should be from sustainably grown sources.
- Calculating the whole life cost of specifying an environmentally friendly product
Under EC Procurement Directives tenderers will not be excluded from bidding on non-economic grounds. Bidders can be excluded if they fail to meet specific green procurement requirements, but not because of other general environmental considerations.
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