# Presentation: 455414

## Greening Electronics Procurement with EPEAT  

- For the Federal Environmental Symposium
- By Holly Elwood, EPA
- June 5, 2007

## Agenda

- What is EPEAT?
- Federal Requirements to buy EPEAT registered products
- Who is Using EPEAT?
- How Can I Use EPEAT?
- Next Steps on EPEAT

## What is EPEAT© ?

- An easy to use environmental procurement tool designed to help institutional purchasers compare desktop computers, laptops and monitors based on their environmental attributes.

**Notes:**
Suggestion – Delete “in the public and private sectors”

## What is EPEAT©?

- 1) Set of voluntary environmental performance criteria (IEEE 1680 American National Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products)
- 2) System for identifying and verifying products which meet this criteria (www.epeat.net)

## EPEAT© Environmental Performance Categories

- Environmentally Sensitive Materials
- Materials Selection
- Design for End of Life
- Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension
- Energy Conservation
- End of Life Management
- Corporate Performance
- Packaging

## EPEAT© Tiers

**EPEAT Bronze– **Meets the 23 mandatory criteria
**EPEAT Silver**– Meets all mandatory criteria and 50% of the optional criteria
**EPEAT Gold**– Meets all mandatory criteria and 75% of the optional criteria

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## EPEAT© Verification Process

-  Like ENERGY STAR®** **Companies:
- Sign MOU to participate
- Products verified after registered
-  Products routinely tested:
- Test a single attribute or set of attributes across all products
- Test all attributes within a single product or a subset of all products

## EPEAT Registered Products

- Green Electronics Council

**As of May 15, 2007**

| 

 |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Desktops | 12 | 65 | 0 |
| Laptops | 24 | 186 | 0 |
| Integrated Systems | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Monitors | 16 | 122 | 0 |
| Total | 56 | 376 | 0 |

## Participating Manufacturers

- Green Electronics Council

- Apple
- CTL
- Dell
- Fujitsu
- Gateway
- HP
- Lenovo
- Mind Computer

- NEC Display
- Northern Micro
- Panasonic
- Philips
- Samsung
- Sona
- Sony Electronics
- Toshiba
- Viewsonic

## Requirements to Buy Environmentally Preferable Electronics

- Executive Order 13423, Section 2 (h) states that feds* need to:  ****ensure that the agency (i) when acquiring an electronic product to meet its requirements, meets at least 95 percent of those requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered electronic product, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such product, ***
- EPEAT**©**** **FAR Case has been submitted by OMB to the FAR Council

## Buying EPEAT© registered products is the main way to meet FEC MOU green procurement objectives on OMB Scorecard
Executive Order 13101 and the FAR subpart 23.703 requires feds to buy more environmentally preferable products
Energy Policy Act requires feds to buy Energy Star and FEMP compliant electronics

- Executive Order 13101 and the FAR subpart 23.703 requires feds to buy more environmentally preferable products
- Energy Policy Act requires feds to buy Energy Star and FEMP compliant electronics

**Requirements to Buy Environmentally Preferable Electronics**

## (As of February 26, 2007)

**Feds Using EPEAT****©**

| Department of Defense, Army | $15.0B |
| --- | --- |
| Department of Homeland Security | $6.024B |
| NASA SEWP IV GWAC | $15.0B |
| GSA Alliant GWAC | $5.0B |
| Department of Energy | $0.4B |
| Department of Interior | $0.2B |
| Department of Transportation | $0.04B |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $0.04B |
| Executive Office of the President | $0.007B |
|  |  |
| TOTAL | $42.07B |

**Notes:**
Visit www.epeat.net and look under the purchasing resources tab for the latest information for this slide.

## How Can I Use EPEAT© ?

- Use list of EPEAT registered products at _[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)_ in market research
- Update all contracts to reflect new EO requirement to buy EPEAT registered products
- Buy off Government Wide Acquisition Contracts which identify EPEAT registered products (NASA SEWP IV, GSA Alliant)
- Specify you want EPEAT products in every task order
- Buy from resellers who identify EPEAT registered products

## How Can I Use EPEAT?

- 8 May 2007

- Green Electronics Council

**Notes:**
The EPEAT database provides a variety of search features as illustrated on this page.

- 8 May 2007

- Green Electronics Council

**Notes:**
This is the results of a search for all product types rated bronze or better. 

Note that there is a variety of additional information available for each product, including specific information about the optional points. This information can be used to determine which of the bronze laptops is really the “greenest.”

Also note that all of the information can be easily exported into a spreadsheet.

## 8 May 2007

- Green Electronics Council

**Notes:**
This screen illustrates the level of detail available for a specific product.

## Recommended Language for New Contracts

- “Per Executive Order 13423, section 2(h), the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) subpart 23.703, all desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this contract are required to have achieved Silver registration or higher under the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) at the time of bid submission. 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 Gold registration. The registration criteria and a list of all registered equipment are provided at _[http://](http://www.epeat.net/)__[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)_ . “

## Recommended Language For New Contracts

- Suppliers are required to block non-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.

## Recommended Language For New Contracts - Reporting

|  | Unregistered | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Desktops |  |  |  |  |  |
| Laptops |  |  |  |  |  |
| Monitors |  |  |  |  |  |

## Recommended Approach for Existing Contracts

- Require all manufacturers or resellers under existing contracts to:
- Sign EPEAT Reseller Agreement
- Identify EPEAT registered products in their catalogs your organization buys through
- Report number of EPEAT registered products purchased quarterly

## Identifying EPEAT Registered Products in Catalogs 

## Measure Environmental Results of Buying EPEAT Registered Products

- Use the Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator at:
-  _[http://](http://www.eerc.ra.utk.edu/ccpcp/eebc/eebc.html)__[eerc.ra.utk.edu/ccpct/eebc/eebc.html](http://www.eerc.ra.utk.edu/ccpcp/eebc/eebc.html)_

## EPEAT Next Products

- Green Electronics Council

**EPEAT Next Products**

- We have started the process to identify and prioritize the next product sets for EPEAT.
- Candidates include:
- Imaging Products (Printers, copiers, etc.)
- Servers
- Handhelds (cell phones, PDAs, etc.)
- TVs

## Next Products Process & Schedule

- Green Electronics Council

**Next Products Process & Schedule**

- Completed “Convening Assessment”, series of phone interviews to help identify issues and stakeholders – Jan.-Feb., 2007
- Completed stakeholder meetings and web input – April, 2007
- Report and Recommendations – June, 2007
- Develop standards – 2007-2008?
- Register products – 2008-2009?

## 	Contact Information  

**Website**
- _[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)_
**EPEAT****© **** Federal Purchaser Liaison**
- Holly Elwood
- 	202-564-8854
- 	_[elwood.holly@epa.gov](mailto:elwood.holly@epa.gov)_

**Notes:**
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