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Creating a Better PlaceSustainable Procurement in the Environment Agency

Emma Law

Senior Procurement Officer

February 2011

Agenda

Our Mission statement

How - Outline approach

The benefits

External Commitments

Q&A

Procurement Mission

Best Value

Best Practice

Most Sustainable Outcome

Economics

EnvironmentSociety

Sustainability

Fair trade

People & Diversity

Resource Management

Emissions

Management

Development & Innovation

Stability

Procurement Pressures

As a non departmental government body – and part of Defra, we have a constant pressure to ensure we’re spending public money in the best way possible.

On the next slide, we see some of the potential risks involved, both in terms of sustainability, H&S and PR….

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How we do it

Considerations before we buy

Opportunity not to buy?

Can you re-think the need?

Any technological innovations?

Are you buying as little as possible?

Are there opportunities to re-use / buy recycled?

Consider Environmental Impacts

Non-renewable resource use (oil, water, copper)

Energy (think efficiency and environment)

Hazardous materials (REACH)

Emissions to air, land and water (CO2, pollution)

Packaging and waste (recycled, reuse, minimise)

Spares, consumables and maintenance (longevity)

Travel (reduced staff travel, logistics)

Support to EA vision, strategy and EMS

Socio-economic impacts

Community benefits (regeneration zone)

Core labour standards (ILO) (list core standards)

Fair and ethical trade (all heard of fair trade)

Disability, gender and race equality (policy, care)

Employment conditions and training issues (pay, H&S)

SMEs, BMEs and the “third sector”, e.g. social enterprises,

charities (remploy)

EA Commitments (Race for Opportunity & Stonewall)

StakeholderValues

Resource

Sustainable

Procurement

Strategy

Risk

Assessment

& Action

Supplier

Management

& Development

Integration into

Procurement

Process

Maintaining

Excellence

Sustainable

Procurement

Marketing

Staff Training

& Awareness

Org Values

SupportFramework

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StakeholderValues

The benefits

What this approach delivers

VALUE FOR MONEY

environmental and social benefits more efficient use of resourcesgreater social inclusion support for innovation better risk managementlower whole-life costsimproved supplier relationships

Best practise examples

Timber policy best in government

Supplier Audit Programme

Supply chain audit – Textiles – Southern Region won internal award

for their change to fairly traded organic in conversion cotton goods

for corporate clothing

Third sector venue suppliers – Southern has led national move to

not-for-profit sector venue hire in order to support local economies,

charities and save on venue spend

External commitments

The Environment Agency has been working on its sustainable procurement impacts for many years, but this was brought together in 2006, by the central government Sustainable Task Force.

We played a major part in the task force to assess our level of skill in sustainable procurement.

Sustainable Procurement Task Force

The business case in a nutshell

“this is worth doing, there are clear benefits, it can be done, it is not difficult, it will not cost more in the medium term and will show real dividends in the long term”(Sir Neville Simms, “Procuring the Future”, 2006)

Conclusions

What could happen…..

Any questions?

Creating a Better PlaceSustainable Procurement in the Environment Agency

Emma Law

Senior Procurement Officer

February 2011