Green Purchasing Workgroup Goals

Short and Long Term Goals Timeline

The Green Purchasing Workgroup has committed to meet on a monthly basis and has identified the following goals:

1) Identify Strategies and Challenges to Leverage Purchasing Power:

• Identify product categories with a good likelihood to leverage purchasing power
• Select 3 products (categories) to then focus energy/attention on to leverage purchasing power and work with primary and other vendors
• Conduct sufficient information/data collection about green products, e.g. to Green Star standards, to justify sole source if needed (Determine if Green Star can assist as “manager of purchasing cooperative” to leverage purchasing power and to utilize distributors to negotiate better price with vendors/manufacturer)
• Clarify government purchasing regulations/challenges to leveraging joint institutional purchasing power
  

2) Identify and determine how to utilize under-utilized businesses

• Determine if advantageous to use
  

3) Draft model green purchasing policy and develop individuals policies for each institution

4) Recognize Zero-Waste Policy is the long-term goal, but the first three goals need to be addressed first