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Greening Government Operations (GGO)
Overview
The GGO supplementary table applies to departments and agencies bound by the Federal Sustainable Development Act, the Policy on Green Procurement, or the Policy Framework for Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Major International Events.
Please note:
- RPP refers to Reports on Plans and Priorities and represents planned / expected results.
- DPR refers to Departmental Performance Reports and represents actual results.
Green Building Targets
8.10 As of April 1, 2011, each department will establish at least three (3) SMART green procurement targets to reduce environmental impacts.
| Procurement of Tablet Personal Computers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | Opportunity for Improvement | |
| Tablet Personal Computers | 30% | 10% |
| Progress against measure in the given fiscal year | N/A | N/A |
Strategies / Comments
- Specific: In order to become less dependent on paper, managers and executives will be provided with tablet personal computers as their main workstations.
- Specific: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) executives and managers will get their devices by March 31, 2012.
- Specific: Library and Archives Canada employees, where feasible, will be equipped with PC tablets by March 31, 2015, thus reducing the number of computers purchased.
- Measurable: Information available from LAC financial system
- Achievable: Departmental policy mandating use of PWGSC standing offers
- Relevant: High volume / expenditure of IT hardware purchases
- Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion
Other Reporting Considerations:
- Scope: All IT computer purchases
- Processes / reporting requirement: Financial database
- Roles and responsibilities: Director of IT is target lead
- Estimated environmental benefits: Reduced energy use / hazardous material/reduced number of workstations
| Re-use uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems from Canada Revenue Agency | ||
|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | On track | |
| Re-use uninterruptible power system | 100% | 50% |
| Progress against measure in the given fiscal year. | N/A | N/A |
Strategies / Comments
- Measurable: Move and install two (2) large UPS systems from Canada
Revenue Agency to Library and Archives Canada - Time-bound: Target installation date is March 31, 2012
- Specific: Commitment to environmental responsibility by re-using equipment
- Roles and responsibilities: Director of IT is target lead
| Secure Waste Paper destruction by shredding, pulping or disintegrating of surplus government paper and/or plastic | ||
|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | On Track | |
| Secure destruction of waste paper | 3,739 metric tons | 3,544 metric tons |
| Progress against measure in the given fiscal year | 3,000 metric tons | |
Strategies / Comments
- Specific: The paper is destroyed and Library and Archives Canada will receive funds for it
- Measurable: The contractor provides a monthly report of metric tons destroyed
Other Reporting Considerations:
- Scope: All Library and Archives Canada national and regional offices
- Roles and responsibilities: Manager of Contracting and Materiel Management is target lead
- Estimated environmental benefits: Consistent with the environmental hierarchy of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Estimated environmental benefits: Less paper is disposed in landfills and paper is reused in recycled material
- Estimated environmental benefits: Less damage to forests
8.11 As of April 1, 2011, each department will establish SMART targets for training, employee performance evaluations, and management processes and controls, as they pertain to procurement decision making.
| Training for select employees As of April 1, 2011, 50 percent of contracting and materiel management personnel will have received green procurement training through CSPS course C215. |
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|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | On Track | |
| Number of contracting and materiel management staff with formal green procurement training relative to total number of contracting and materiel management staff | 100% | 50% |
| Progress against measure in the fiscal year 2010-2011 | 50% | 10% |
Strategies / Comments
- Specific: Achievement level of 100 percent, 50 percent of employees have taken the Green Procurement Course
- Measurable: Information available from CSPS and in-house HR tracking system
- Achievable: Departmental policy mandates all existing and new designated employees to take green procurement training
- Relevant: Targets all relevant employees
- Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion
Other Reporting Considerations:
- In-house training used: None. CSPS Course C215 only
- Reporting requirements: LAC maintains a list of employees who have taken the training
- Roles and responsibilities: Manager of Contracting and Materiel Management Section is target lead
- Plans for engagement: The training is mandatory for section personnel
| Employee performance evaluations for managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management As of April 1, 2012, environmental considerations will be incorporated into the performance evaluations of all functional heads of procurement and materiel management. |
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|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | On Track | |
| Number of performance evaluations that incorporated environmental considerations, relative to total number of performance evaluations of managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management | 100% | 50% |
| Progress against measure in the given fiscal year | 30% | 10% |
Strategies / Comments
- Specific: training offered to administrative community, management staff and procurement staff.
- Measurable: Information available from in-house HR tracking system
- Achievable: Functional heads of procurement and materiel management include environmental considerations in their performance evaluations
- Relevant: Targets all relevant employees
- Time-bound: Achieve targets by April 2013
Other Reporting Considerations:
- Reporting requirements: Director General to report to target lead
- Roles and responsibilities: Manager of Contracting and Materiel Management section is target lead
- Plans for engagement: Inclusion in Employee Performance Management Agreements
| Management processes and controls By March 31, 2013, all identified management processes and controls, relating to procurement, will have incorporated environmental considerations. |
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|---|---|---|
| Performance Measure | RPP | DPR |
| Target Status | Opportunity for Improvement | |
| Materiel Management Guide and Packaging returned | 100% | 25% |
| Progress against measure in the given fiscal year | 50% | 10% |
Strategies / Comments
- Specific: Creation of Materiel Management Guide
- Measurable: Existence of baseline list of all formalized management processes and controls.
- Achievable: Materiel Management personnel responsible for target
- Relevant: Decision-making authority for purchases decentralized
- Time-bound: Ongoing
Other Reporting Considerations:
- Examples: Investment planning, Procurement Review Committee, procurement and materiel management and assets management information process
- Methodology: Analysis of departmental decision-making processes and controls to determine those that should include environmental considerations
- Reporting requirements: Director General will report annually
- Roles and responsibilities: Manager of Contracting and Materiel Management Section is target lead
- Mechanisms to evaluate: First review scheduled in 2014
- Plans for engagement: Discussion topic of management committee