Sustainable Procurement
Description:
Incorporate social and environmental sustainability as a factor in purchasing practices.
Champion:
Office of Procurement
Source:
Climate Action Roadmap
Strategies
- Complete a review of ISO 20400 – Sustainable Procurement standard to determine best practices and opportunities for sustainable purchasing through Procurement Services by 2021.
- Assess the impact of Executive Order 77 on purchasing and take steps to comply, including performing outreach with contracted vendors, website updates, and solicitation/ contract language updates by 2022.
- As part of the university’s 42% expenditure goal with Virginia certified Small, Woman-, and Minority-owned (SWaM) businesses, provide these businesses with programs that enhance their campus visibility (i.e. supplier diversity fair/vendor education/other promotion) by 2023.
- Determine the feasibility of onboarding a SWaM reseller for at least one university-wide contracted vendor such as Amazon, Fisher, or Grainger to drive business to Virginia certified SWaM businesses by 2023.
- Promotion of sustainable purchasing through identification of sustainable businesses in the university’s eProcurement system or development of a green buying guide for the campus by 2024.
