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Greening Operations
The OPC is bound by the Policy on Green Procurement but not the Federal Sustainable Development Act. With the Table that follows, the Office meets the mandatory reporting under Section 7 of the Policy.
- Approach: As an Agent of Parliament, the Commissioner of the OPC is not obligated to use Public Works and Government Services Canada’s procurement instruments, even though the Office is subject to the Policy on Green Procurement through the application of the Financial Administration Act Section 2 (OPC is included in Schedule I.1 of the FAA). Nevertheless, the OPC sees the value of using PWGSC procurement instruments and so its approach to implementing green procurement is to target the use of those instruments, to ensure the delivery of training to key personnel and to include green procurement objectives in the employee performance evaluations of key procurement and materiel management decision-makers.
- Management Processes and Controls: The OPC uses PWGSC procurement instruments as its primary procurement mechanism for service contracts above $25K and for the purchase of office furniture and supplies. Hence, the OPC leverages the environmental considerations incorporated into the standing offers managed by PWGSC.
- Training: The OPC will ensure that all existing and new procurement and materiel management functional specialist staff take the Canada School of Public Service course C215 by the end of 2012-2013 (6 employees in total).
- Performance Evaluations: This fiscal year the OPC commits to include some clauses (e.g. successful completion of the C215 course, participation in the computer school recycling program) to take environmental considerations into account in procurement activities in the performance management agreement of the two (2) manager-functional specialists (manager, procurement and manager, materiel management.
- Meeting Targets: The OPC will report against these targets in the Departmental Performance Report 2012-2013.