# Presentation: 745963

## Environmentally Preferable Purchasing at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance (HS-22) 

**EPEAT and ENERGY STAR**

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## Overview

- Drivers and cost benefits
- Best Practices
- Current state of EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) certification
- What manufacturers are covered?
- Model contract clauses for ENERGY STAR/EPEAT products
- Reporting and data collection

**Overview**

***DOE Policy***
***Purchase designated products containing environmentally preferable attributes to the maximum extent practicable when available, affordable and effective***

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## Drivers Directing LBNL to Purchase Green Products

**Drivers Directing LBNL to Purchase Green Products**

- Legislation:
- Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Clean Air Act Title VI (CAA)
- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (FSRIA)
- Energy Acts of 1992, 2005, 2007
- Impact of Executive Orders: 13221, 13423
- Replace EO13101, 13123, 13134, 13148, 13149
- Specify environmental preferability in environmental management systems
- Add Electronic Stewardship and Sustainable Design
- Include standby power devices
**DOE contract**

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## Drivers Directing LBNL toPurchase Green Products

**Drivers Directing LBNL to****Purchase Green Products**

- Memoranda of Understanding:** **
- 	- Federal Electronics Challenge
- 	- High Performance and Sustainable Buildings
- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
- DOE Acquisition Regulation (DEAR)
- DOE Orders 450.1A and 430.2B and 413.3A
- DOE Acquisition Guide (Chapter 23)
- See _http://www.hss.doe.gov/pp/epp/drivers_and_guidelines.html_ for information on regulations affecting Green Purchasing

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## Examples of Potential Cost Savings

- Paint (latex)					          $16.00/gal *Recycled paint (meets commercial paint specs)          $8.25*Potential Savings for LBNL (50% of $24,890)		$12,000/yr
- Toner cartridge (Canon Machines) 		$67.74
- 	*Remanufactured toner cartridge**	**	**	**$30.67*
- Potential Savings for LBNL (50% of $261,934)	$130,000/yr
- Paper/ream (truck-load)				$3.13
- 	*Recycled paper**	**	**	**	**	**$2.55*Potential Savings for LBNL (20% of $120,000?)	$24,000/yr
- Binders (3” White slant “D” /w clear covers)		$11.59
- 	*Recycled binders**	**	**	**	**	**$6.28*
- Potential Savings for LBNL (50% of $8000)		$4000/yr

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## Electronics Stewardship Best Practices  

- Have policies to extend useful life
- Buy laptop with docking station instead of desktop and laptop
- Install a Watt Stopper ®
- Specify in purchasing contracts
- EPEAT if standard available (95% of purchases required)
- Enabling ENERGY STAR features on 100% of computers and monitors
- Take back of equipment and packaging
- Reporting
- Ensure all non-usable electronic equipment is reused, donated, sold, or recycled (READS)

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## Current State of EPEAT Certification  

| EPEAT Registered Products Search Tool |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Product |             |             |             | 

Total |
| Desktops | 23 | 94 | 24 | 144 |
| Integrated Systems | 6 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| Monitors | 10 | 253 | 1 | 264 |
| Notebooks | 31 | 234 | 13 | 278 |
| Totals | 70 | 586 | 38 | 694 |

**http://www.epeat.net**

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## What Manufacturers Are Covered?

- Gold Desktops
- CIARA-TECH** **
- Dell
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM/Lenovo
- MDG Computers Canada Inc.** **
- Northern Micro Inc.** **
- Prosys Tech Corp
- Zonbu - PConRails LLC
- Gold Notebooks/Laptops
- Dell
- Hewlett Packard
- One Laptop Per Child** **
- Toshiba

**What Manufacturers Are Covered?**

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## Model Contract Clauses

- Specify equipment as either
- “ENERGY STAR qualified”
- “FEMP designated”
- “EPEAT registered”
- Require
- Take back at end of life
- Take back of packaging
- Reporting

**Model Contract Clauses**

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## DEAR Flow Down Clause for Sub-Contracts

**970.5223-2 Affirmative procurement program.**
**	****As prescribed in 48 CFR (DEAR) 970.2304-2, insert the following clause in contracts for the management and operation of DOE facilities, including national laboratories. **
**AFFIRMATIVE PROCUREMENT PROGRAM (MAR 2003)**
** ****	****(a)  In the performance of this contract, the ****Contractor shall comply with the requirements of Executive Order 13423**** and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Affirmative Procurement Program Guidance.  This guidance includes requirements concerning environmentally preferable products and services, recycled content products and biobased products.  This guidance is available on the Internet.**
**	****(c)  The ****Contractor shall prepare and submit reports****, at the end of the Federal fiscal year, on matters related to the acquisition of items designated in EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines that Federal agencies and their Contractors are to procure with recovered/recycled content. **
**	****(d) ****If the Contractor subcontracts**** a significant portion of the operation of the Government facility which includes the acquisition of items designated in EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines, ****the subcontract shall contain a clause substantially the same as this clause. ...Examples of such a subcontract would be operation of the facility supply function, construction or remodeling at the facility, or maintenance of the facility motor vehicle fleet****.**

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## FEC Partnership

- Register as an FEC Partner
- Identify FEC team, including:
- Procurement/Contracts Office
- Information Technology Office
- Property Managers
- Facilities Managers
- EMS Coordinators/ESH&Q Staff
- Promote FEC Partnership with agency/facility employees
- Work on Baseline Survey of Current Practices and Annual Goals Form
- Submit registration and other FEC forms via web site:
- 	www.federalelectronicschallenge.net

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## Data Collection and Reporting EPEAT Purchases 

- Present computer purchasing system at LBNL?
- Need for improving data collection?
- LBNL FY2007

**Data Collection and Reporting EPEAT Purchases **

| Equipment | Gold | Silver | Non-EPEAT |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Desktop | 249 | 237 | 64 |
| Monitor | - | 188 | 55 |
| Notebook | 55 | 372 | 37 |

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## Resources for Green Product Information

- DOE Environmentally Preferable Purchasing                           http://www.hss.doe.gov/pp/epp/
- Alternative Fuels/Vehicles _[http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/federal/](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/federal/)_
- Biobased Products http://www.biobased.oce.usda.gov/fb4p/Catalog.aspx
- Electronic Equipment  _[http://www.epeat.net/ ](http://www.w/)_
- Energy/Water Efficient Product http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/procurement/ _[http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/water/index.html](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/water/index.html)_** **
- Non-Ozone Depleting Substances _[http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/snap/](http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/snap/)_
- Recycled Products _[http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/procure/products.htm](http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/procure/products.htm)_
- Sustainable Buildings http://www.wbdg.org/

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## Resources for Green Product Information (continued)

- DOE Quarterly EPP Teleconferences            4th Thursdays: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct:  http://www.hss.doe.gov/pp/epp/teleconferences_tools.html
- Fed Center                                                                                               _[http:/](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/federal/index.html)__[/www.fedcenter.gov/programs/buygreen/](http://www/)__ _
- Office of the Federal Environmental Executive            _[http:/](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/federal/index.html)__[/www.ofee.gov](http://www/)_
- EPA EPP Database _[http://yosemite.epa.gov/oppt/eppstand2.nsf/Pages/Search.html?Open](http://yosemite.epa.gov/oppt/eppstand2.nsf/Pages/Search.html?Open)_
- DOE-HQ Blanket Ordering Agreements _[http://www.management.energy.gov/1364.htm](http://www.management.energy.gov/1364.htm)__ _
- DOE-HQ Bulk Purchasing Tool for ENERGY STAR Equipment http://www.quantityquotes.net/default.aspx

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## Contacts for EPP Information

**Procurement -**  Richard Langston / Michael Raizen, MA-61,** **202-287-1339 / 202-287-1512
**Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Biobased and Recycled Products - **Don Lentzen HS-22**,** 202-586-7428
**Construction Materials and Equipment -** Anne Crawley, FEMP, 202-586-1505
**Electronic Stewardship - **Jeff Eagan, HS-22,** **202-586-4598
**Energy/Water Efficient Products - **Cyrus Nasseri, EE-2L, 202-586-9138
**Non-Ozone Depleting Substances - **Emile Boulos, HS-22,** **202-586-1306
**Vehicle Efficient/Alternative Fuels -** Brad Gustafson, FEMP, 202-586-5865
**Hotline Technical Support – **Sandra Cannon, 509-529-1535, cannon@ecopurchasing
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