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Green Procurement
Meeting Policy Requirements
Has the department incorporated environmental performance considerations in its procurement decision-making processes?
| Yes |
Summary of initiatives to incorporate environmental performance considerations in procurement decision-making processes:
VAC Procurement personnel are required to complete Green Procurement Training, including those individuals issued Government of Canada acquisition cards. All procurement personnel are made aware of VAC’s Green Procurement Policy and have immediate access to that policy on VAC’s website.
VAC Procurement personnel are required to use Mandatory Standing Offers in which environmental considerations have already been incorporated.
VAC personnel are required to consider full life cycle management from the procurement, storage, distribution and disposal aspects.
Results achieved:
Through training and other Communication tools Procurement personnel are aware and implement best practices for the environment when actioning requests for acquisitions, storage and disposal of materiel.
In 2009-2010, VAC Materiel Management assisted in the winding down of VAC’s National Recycled Medical/Special Equipment Program. In doing so the Department disposed of 4,000 pieces of Medical Equipment (manual and power wheel chairs, walkers, beds, mattresses, pressure pads, lift chairs, scooters, ramps, and other miscellaneous items). Every piece was disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner via donations, sales with the assistance of Crown Assets Disposal, and through recycling. As a result, the amount of equipment that would normally have ended up in landfills was reduced.
Contributions to facilitate government-wide implementation of green procurement:
Adherence to the Computers For School (CFS) Program
Participation in the E-Waste Program
Donations of working equipment (not meeting the standards of the CFS Program) and furnishings to Non-Profit Organizations, and National Sporting Events.
First Choice for Procurement is Green Products.
Purchase of Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Recycle Equipment within our Department and with Other Government Departments
Sharing the Use of Government Vehicles
Green Procurement Targets
Has the department established green procurement targets?
| Yes |
Summary of green procurement targets:
Increasing quantity of green products purchased by 15%.
Results achieved:
VAC increased its acquisition of green products through the use of Mandatory Standing Offers. In 2009-10, VAC issued 1,472 Call-ups Against Standing Offers for a total of $5.4 million in products on a National Basis.