# Presentation: 184933

## 
What Is Green Purchasing, Anyway?

Dana Arnold
	Office of the Federal Environmental Executive

**What Is Green Purchasing, Anyway?**
- Dana Arnold
- 	Office of the Federal Environmental Executive

## WHY BUY GREEN?

***	******“******The Federal government can be a good steward of our resources, and we fully intend to be.”***
**	****	****	****- President George W. Bush**

## WHY BUY GREEN?

**E.O. 13423, *****Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management*****, 1/24/07**
**“****The head of each agency shall require in agency acquisitions of goods and services, (i) use of sustainable environmental practices, including acquisition of biobased, environmentally preferable, energy-efficient, water-efficient, and recycled content products, and (ii) use of paper of at least 30% postconsumer fiber content.”**

## WHY BUY GREEN?

**E.O. 13423, *****Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management*****, 1/24/07**
**“****The head of each agency shall ensure that the agency reduces the quantity of toxic and hazardous chemicals and materials acquired, used or disposed.....”**

## WHY BUY GREEN?

**E.O. 13423, *****Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management*****, 1/24/07**
**“****The head of each agency shall ensure that new construction and major renovation of agency buildings comply with the *****Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings...*****.”**

## WHY BUY GREEN?

**E.O. 13423, *****Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management*****, 1/24/07**
**“****The head of each agency shall ensure that the agency, when acquiring an electronic product to meet its requirements, meets at least 95% of those requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered product, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such product.....”**

## WHY BUY GREEN?

**E.O. 13423, *****Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management*****, 1/24/07**
**“****The head of each agency shall implement within the agency sustainable practices for...acquisition.... Reduction or elimination of acquisition and use of toxic or hazardous chemicals, high performance construction, lease, operation, and maintenance of buildings, vehicle fleet management, and electronic equipment management.”**

## MYTHS ABOUT BUYING GREEN

**Inconsistent with efforts to be more like corporate America.**
**Inconsistent with buying COTS items.**
**Inconsistent with requirement to buy from mandatory sources.**

## 	GREEN PURCHASING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH:

**Purchase card/fleet card purchases**
**Simplified acquisitions (<$100,000)**
**Larger (>$100,000) purchases of supplies**
**Support services contracts**
**Detailed scopes of work or performance-based contracting**
**Purchases from mandatory sources**

## SCOPE

**Recycled content products**
**Energy- and water-efficient products**
**Standby power devices**
**Energy Star**
**FEMP-designated products**
**WaterSense**
**Alternative fuel vehicles/alternative fuels**
**Biobased products**
**Environmentally preferable products**
**Non-ozone depleting substances**
**Low or non-toxic or hazardous chemicals**

## Legal Basis

- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Section 6002
- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (2002 Farm Bill), Section 9002
- Energy Policy Act of 1992 and 2005
- Executive Orders 13423 and 13221
- Federal Acquisition Regulation

## What’s in the FAR?

**Subchapter D, Part 23**- ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION, OCCUPATIONAL SAFTEY, AND DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
**23.403 Policy**- Government policy on the use of recovered materials considers cost, availability of competition, and performance.  The objective is to acquire competitively, in a cost-effective manner, products that meet reasonable performance requirements and that are composed of the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable

## What’s in the FAR?

**23.703 Policy**- Government policy on the acquisition of environmentally preferable and energy efficient products and services.  Promotes cost-effective waste reduction and consideration of biobased products.

## What’s in the FAR?

**FAR 23.202** The Government’s policy is to acquire supplies and services that promote energy and water efficiency, advance the use of renewable energy products, and help foster markets for emerging technologies.  This policy extends to all acquisitions, including those below the simplified acquisition threshold.

## What’s in the FAR?

- Think green from the start of an acquisition.
**Part 7.105(b)(16)** requires written acquisition plans to: “discuss all applicable environmental and energy conservation objectives associated with the acquisition...”

## What’s in the FAR?

- The FAR requires agencies to consider use of recovered materials, environmentally preferable purchasing criteria developed by EPA, and environmental objectives when developing specifications and standards describing government requirements and developing **source selection **factors.

## What’s in the FAR?

- Our minimum need is for 30% postconsumer content printing and office paper:
- Offer documents
- Reports and studies
- Training materials
- Publications
- Financial and technical progress reports

## What’s in the FAR?

- The green purchasing requirements apply to:
- Direct purchases of products
- Products supplied or used in the performance of a contract
- Micro-purchases
- Simplified acquisitions
- Purchases of commercial items

## What’s in the FAR?

- When buying green, we can use detailed scopes of work or performance-based contracting.
- Performance-based contracting was used successfully to incorporate green elements into the Pentagon renovations.

## FAR Clauses

**For recycled content paper:**
**	****- ****52.204-4 Printed or Copied Double-Sided on Recycled Paper**
**For affirmative procurement:**
**	****- 52.223-4  Recovered Materials Certification**
**	****- 52.223-9  Certification and Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA Designated Items**
**	****	****(Use only on contracts exceeding $100,000.)**
**For support services and O&M contractors:**
**	****- FAR 52.223-10 Waste Reduction Program**

## Pending FAR Revisions

- Energy Star products (proposed, final in draft)
- Biobased products (proposed)
- EPEAT-registered products (proposal in draft)
- Recovered materials (proposal approved but not published)
- E.O. 13423 conforming changes

## Recycled Content Products

- Legal basis: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act section 6002, E.O. 13423
- What’s required: Purchase EPA-designated recycled content products

## EPA’s 8 Product Categories

- Vehicles
-  Construction
-  Transportation
-  Parks and Recreation
-  Landscaping
-  Non-Paper Office Products
-  Miscellaneous
-  Paper and Paper Products

## What To Buy Green

- Office products
- Printing services
- Fleet maintenance products
- Building construction, renovation, and maintenance (janitorial, landscaping) products
- Traffic control
- Parks and recreation products

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA Advantage! (CPG symbol, recycling symbol)
- DoD EMALL
- AbilityOne (formerly JWOD)
- UNICOR
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- EPA entered into a **blanket purchase agreement** with Corporate Express to supply recycled content and environmentally preferable office products.
- The Naval Undersea Warfare Division, Newport, has an agreement with Office Depot to supply green office products.
- Both agreements require the vendor to report what was purchased.

## Cool Stuff

- Homestead Air Reserve Base created an **Environmentally Friendly Products Section** at the base supply store.
- Sandia National Labs added **green contract language to the template for all construction contracts**. This template is used by all project managers when requesting proposals from new contractors and developing work scope for pre- approved contractors.

## Where to Find More Information

- www.epa.gov/cpg

## Energy Star and FEMP-Designated Products and Low Standby Power Devices

- Legal basis: Energy Policy Act, E.O. 13423, E.O. 13221
- What’s required: Reduce building energy use; purchase Energy Star and FEMP- designated products, products that use minimal standby power; renewable energy; and EPEAT-registered products

## What To Buy Green

- Electronic office products
- Low standby power devices
- Building construction products
- Appliances (residential and commercial)
- Lighting
- Water-saving products

## Energy Star and Energy Efficient Products

- Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires Federal agencies to purchase Energy Star and FEMP-designated energy efficient products
- Exception:  Head of agency determines, in writing, that
- Not cost effective over the life of the product or
- No product is reasonably available that meets the agency’s functional requirements

## Energy Star and Energy Efficient Products (Cont’d)

- EPAct excludes combat or combat-related equipment
- Department of Energy, Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is preparing guidance

## Energy Star and Energy Efficient Products (Cont’d)

- New energy efficiency standards for more than a dozen consumer and commercial products, including:
- Fluorescent lamps and lamp ballasts
- Illuminated exit signs
- Transformers
- Ceiling fans/ceiling fan light kits
- Commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment
- Refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers
- Commercial ice makers
- Commercial clothes washers

## Buying EPEAT© Registered Products

- Update all contracts to reflect new E.O. requirement to buy EPEAT-registered products.
- Specify EPEAT-registered products in every task order.
- Use list of EPEAT-registered products at www.epeat.net.
- Buy from resellers who identify EPEAT- registered products.
- Buy off Government Wide Acquisition Contracts which identify EPEAT registered products (NASA SEWP IV).

## Recommended Contract Language

- There are a number of mandates that require federal procurement officials to assess and give preference to those products and services that are environmentally preferable, including Executive Order *****, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) subpart 23.703.  (Agency/Department) is also one of the twelve Federal Agencies participating in the White House's Federal Electronics Challenge (http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net), demonstrating our commitment to reducing the impact of electronics on the natural environment throughout their life cycle.  As part of our work under this Challenge, (Agency/Department) has committed to buying products that meet the mandatory criteria of the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). All desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this contract are required to have achieved Bronze registration or higher under the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). EPEAT is a procurement tool designed to help large volume purchasers evaluate, compare, and select desktop computers, laptops, and monitors based upon their environmental attributes as specified in the consensus-based IEEE Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products (1680). Additional consideration will be provided for products that have achieved EPEAT Silver or EPEAT Gold registration. The registration criteria and a list of all registered equipment are provided at _[http://www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)__ . _

## Recommended Contract Language

- Suppliers are required to indicate EPEAT registered products on their electronic catalogs that customers may buy from through this contract.  Suppliers are required to provide quarterly reports quantifying the number of EPEAT registered products purchased under this contract. The information must be reported in a matrix providing the following data for the current quarter, the fiscal year, and the duration of the contract.

## EPEAT Data

**<****www.epeat.net>**
**(Date: January 4, 2007)**

## Building Energy Reduction Goals

- E.O. 13423 added new energy reduction goals, compared to FY 2003 – reduce energy intensity by
- 3% annually through end of FY 2015 OR
- 30% by end of FY 2015
- Includes industrial and laboratory facilities
- Some exceptions provided in EPAct 2005

## Federal Building Performance Standards

- If life-cycle cost effective, new buildings must be designed to achieve energy consumption levels 30% below ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004 or the 2004 International Energy Conservation Code
- Sustainable design principles must be applied to the siting, design, and construction of all new and replacement buildings

## Renewable Energy Portfolio

- EPAct 2005: When economically feasible and technically practicable, Federal government is to use renewable energy from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, waves, geothermal, MSW, or new or expanded hydro sources:
- FY 2007 – 2009 – not less than 3%
- FY 2010 – 2012 – not less than 5%
- FY 2013 and after – not less than 7.5%
- E.O. 13423: Buy half from “new” sources, put in place after 1/1/99

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA Advantage! (Energy Star symbol, EE symbol)
- DoD EMALL
- Energy Savings Performance Contracts
- Utility Energy Savings Contracts
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- Dyess Air Force Base uses **100% renewable power** – using wind power.
- EPA uses green power for 100% of its national electricity consumption.
- Purchased power
- Renewable energy certificates (tags)
- Federal agencies installed more than 3,000 **solar energy** systems by the end of 2003.

## Where to Find More Information

-  www.eere.doe.gov/femp/technologies/eeproducts.cfm
- 	www.energystar.gov
- www.epeat.net

## Seventh Inning Stretch!!!

- 10 Minute Break

## Alternative Fuel Vehicles/Alternative Fuels

- Legal basis: Energy Policy Act, E.O. 13423
- What’s required: Purchase alternative fuel vehicles, alternative fuels, and recycled content vehicular products; reduce petroleum consumption

## Use of Alternative Fuels

- Sec. 701 of Energy Policy Act of 2005:
- Alternative fuels must be used in dual fuel vehicles unless agency certifies and DOE grants a waiver because:
- Fuel is not available
- Unreasonable cost compared to gasoline

## What To Buy Green

- Alternative fuel vehicles
- Neighborhood electric vehicles
- Alternative fuels (e.g., ethanol, CNG, LNG, biodiesel)
- EPA-designated recycled content vehicular products

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA (vehicles)
- Defense Energy Support Center (ethanol, biodiesel)
- Defense Supply Center Richmond (re-refined oil)
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- In FY 2005, **alternative fuel vehicles** accounted for 109% of covered light-duty vehicle acquisitions – well above our 75% requirement.
- We buy ethanol, biodiesel, CNG, and LNG, and use hybrids and other electric vehicles.
- Naval Base Ventura County recycles used cooking oil into biodiesel.
- Both Army and Marine Corps using **hybrid HUMVEEs**.

## Where to Find More Information

- www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/

## Biobased Products

- Legal basis: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 section 9002, E.O. 13423
- What’s required: Purchase USDA-designated biobased products

## Biobased Products

**USDA designations (3/16/06)**:
- Mobile equipment hydraulic fluids*
- Urethane roof coatings
- Water tank coatings – effective 11/20/07
- Diesel fuel additives*
- Penetrating lubricants*
- Bedding, bed linens, towels – effective 11/20/07
- * excluding combat, combat-related, and space-related applications

## Biobased Products (cont'd)

- Round 2 Proposal
- Adhesive and Mastic Removers
- Biodegradable Containers
- Bio-Fluid Filled Transformers
- Composite Panels
- Fertilizers

- Grease and Graffiti Removers
- Hand Cleaners and Sanitizers
- Insulating Foams – Wall Construction
- Metal Working Fluids
- Sorbents

## Biobased Products (cont’d)

- Round 3 Proposal
- 2 Cycle Engine Oils
- Biodegradable Cutlery
- Biodegradable Films
- Carpet Cleaners
- Carpets

- Dust Suppressants
- Glass Cleaners
- Greases
- Hydraulic Fluid – Stationary Equipment
- Lip Care Balm

## Biobased Products (cont’d)

- Round 4 Proposal
- Bath and Tile Cleaners
- Biobased Clothing
- Concrete and Asphalt Release Fluids
- Cutting, Drilling and Tapping Oils
- De-Icers

- Durable Plastic Films
- Fire Arm Lubricants
- Floor Strippers
- Laundry Products
- Wood and Concrete Sealers

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA Advantage! (biobased symbol)
- Defense Energy Supply Center
- DoD EMALL
- AbilityOne (formerly JWOD)
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- Seymour Johnson AFB looked for biobased floor scrubbers to help its local wastewater treatment plant reduce phosphate concentrations and pH levels.
- Commercial floor scrubbers
- Goal:  Formulate a biobased detergent low in phosphates, pH neutral, aggressive in cleaning, and competitively priced
- Able to meet needs for cleaning golf cart facilities, supply warehouse, and aircraft hangar.

## Cool Stuff

- Pope AFB looked for cleaners for the Aerospace Ground Equipment and Propulsion shops that were lower pH but compatible with oil/water separators.
- Goals:  lower pH, solvent-free, left floors meeting safety requirements.
- Focused on biobased enzymatic products.
- Used for shop spills of hydraulic fluids, engine oil – and incidently, cleaned oils in the floor scrubbing equipment.
- Cost per gallon of 90 cents!

## Cool Stuff

- The Defense Energy Support Center worked through **ASTM** to develop a **technical standard for B20** and establish quality requirements and contract language.
- Many Federal facilities now use biobased hydraulic oils, greases, cleaning products, mastic removers, and other products.
- PTO just installed **carpet containing a soy-based backing**.

## Where to Find More Information

- USDA:
- http://www.usda.gov/procurement/programs/biobased.htm
**http://www.biobased.oce.usda.gov**** **
- OFEE:
- 	www.ofee.gov,click on Green Purchasing, click on Biobased Products

## Environmentally Preferable Products

- Legal basis: E.O. 13423
- What’s required: Purchase environmentally preferable products and services

## What To Buy Green

- Office products
- Electronic office equipment
- Meeting and conference services
- Building renovation, construction, and maintenance (janitorial, landscaping) products

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA Advantage! (trees symbol)
- DoD EMALL
- AbilityOne (formerly JWOD)
- UNICOR
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- Department of the Interior led the way in switching to **green cleaning products** and now uses a NISH provider to clean with green cleaners.
- NISH providers also clean the **Pentagon** and other Federal buildings with green cleaners.  Even **Statue of Liberty** National Park is cleaned with green cleaners.

## Cool Stuff

- In 2003, the Navy revised its mandatory catalog of technical purchase descriptions for **shipboard cleaning products and dispensers** to identify environmentally preferable alternatives.

## Cool Stuff

- Proposed revision to EPA’s acquisition regulations will require offerors for meeting and conference services to provide information about environmentally preferable features and practices at the offerors’ facilities.

## Where to Find More Information

- www.epa.gov/oppt/epp

## Non-Ozone Depleting Substances

- Legal basis: Clean Air Act, E.O. 13423
- What’s required: Purchase alternatives to ozone depleting substances
- SNAP -- EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy Program identifies alternatives to ozone-depleting substances and provides lists of acceptable and unacceptable substitutes. The web site provides information on product alternatives.

## What To Buy Green

- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Foam Blowing
- Solvent Cleaning
- Fire Suppression and Explosion Protection
- Aerosol Solvents and Propellants
- Sterilants
- Tobacco Expansion
- Adhesives, Coatings, and Inks

## Where to Buy Green

- GSA Advantage! (SNAP symbol)
- DoD EMALL
- Commercial sources

## Cool Stuff

- Federal agencies are installing **alternatives to halon fire suppression systems**.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base purchases non-ozone depleting **missile propellants**.
- NASA’s White Sands Test Facility uses an **aqueous process to clean spacecraft parts** instead of a freon-based cleaning system.

## Where to Find More Information

- www.epa.gov/ozone/snap/lists/index.html

## Example: Green Scope of Work

**      ****Where applicable on exterior surfaces only, the use of consolidated and reprocessed latex paint meeting the requirements of the Comprehensive Procurement Guide for postconsumer content and total recovered content should be considered, if feasible.**
**	****White, off-white, pastel**
**	****colors****	****	****	****	****20% postconsumer**
**	****Grey, brown, earthtones,**
**	****and other dark colors ****	****	****50-99% postconsumer**

## Example: Green Scope of Work

- The contractor shall meet the goals and objectives of E.O. [13123] and use Energy Star and energy-efficient products in the top 20% of energy efficiency as designated by the Department of Energy.

## What parts of the solicitation will you green?

- A – Solicitation/contract form
- B – Supplies or services and prices/costs
- C – Description/specifications/statement of work
- D – Packaging and marking
- E – Inspection and acceptance
- F – Deliveries or performance
- G – Contract administration data
- H – Special contract requirements
- I – Contract clauses
- J – List of attachments
- K – Reps and certifications
- L – Instructions, conditions, and notices
- M – Evaluation factors for award

## For More Information

- 	Dana Arnold
- 	Chief of Staff, OFEE
- 	arnold.dana@ofee.gov
- 	202-343-9374
**www.ofee.gov**