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Green Procurement
Meeting Policy Requirements
1. Has the Department incorporated environmental performance considerations in its procurement decision-making processes? Yes.
For the purchase of executive vehicles, Contracts and Materiel Management influences the decision making and highly encourages the purchase of alternative-fuelled vehicles. Industry Canada currently has 4 executive vehicles, all of which are hybrid.
Industry Canada continues to use Computer Media Group for their cartridge recycling program. The supplier collects on average 3,500 cartridges per year. Each cartridge is sent back to the appropriate manufacturer to be cleaned and refilled as recycled toner, or recycled for its usable parts, or at the very least, is melted down to become recycled plastic.
IC is currently engaged in a procurement process for the department’s printer optimization initiative. IC’s target is to have a contract in place in 2010 and the full implantation by fiscal year-end. The procurement process took environmental factors into consideration. For example, ENERGY STAR (or equivalent) has been included as part of the evaluation.
2. Summary of initiatives to incorporate environmental-performance considerations in procurement decision-making processes
At IC, procurement activity is decentralized, presenting challenges in managing the kinds of products that are purchased. However, in order to have procurement delegation, staff members must follow a 2-day mandatory contracting course, which includes the Policy on Green Procurement.
Initiative: IC is currently engaged in a procurement project that incorporated environmental performance considerations in the decision making. The printer optimization initiative is intended to achieve a person-per-device ratio of 5:1 by 2010–11 and 8:1 by 2011–12. Replacing the inefficient and out-of-date devices making up the Department’s current 2:1 ratio with modern equipment will offer a broad range of financial and environmental benefits.
Initiative: IC created a tracking and reporting tool for green procurement activity in the Information Financial Management System (IFMS). A department-wide publication on the subject was issued March 2010. The new functionality was added to IFMS on April 1, 2010. Users will be able to click on the drop-down menu and select one of the following choices: Normal, Unknown and Green.
3. Results achieved
Since the printer optimization project is not completed and implementation has not taken place, results achieved are not currently available.
Training, awareness and full implementation of the use of the IFMS green procurement tracking tool has not been completed.
4. Contributions to facilitate government-wide implementation of green procurement
N/A
5. Has the Department established green procurement targets?
N/A
7. Summary of green procurement targets
N/A
8. Results achieved
N/A