title box
 

Sustainable Procurement

ESPO's National Sustainable Products catalogue available now. To request your free copy please call 0116 265 7927 or click on the following link:

http://www.espo.org/pdfs/sustainable.pdf

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS PROCUREMENT
Making the right procurement decisions can have far reaching environmental, economic and social impacts. The volume of public sector procurement in the UK and wider EU is sufficiently large for it to be seen as an area that can help tackle a wide range of central policy issues, such as climate change, providing the right goods and services are procured.

The action plan produced by the Government's Sustainable Procurement Task Force identified a number of key commodity groups that would have the widest sustainability impact, and which would produce a step change in sustainable public sector procurement. The aim is to put the UK among the leaders in the EU by 2009.

ESPO has led the way in carrying out an EU compliant procurement initiative across these key commodity groups and launched a 'Sustainable Products Catalogue'. This first edition includes the following categories:

  • Microgeneration Energy Products
  • Energy Efficient Products, including Energy Saving Devices
  • Products made from Recycled Materials
  • Products and Services for Sustainable Parks Management, including Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)

Click here for a printable version of this page, which expands on the categories listed above.

AMENDED WIND TURBINE PRICES
This amendment affects Galliford Try Renewables as featured in the 2007/08 National Sustainable Products catalogue. Please note that prices published in the catalogue were the price per kw of output, not each, as stated.To clarify the actual unit cost we have provided this amended price list, which also shows volume discounts, where applicable.

SMART-SPP

SMART-SPP - innovation through sustainable procurement - is a pan-European project which will promote the introduction of new, innovative, low carbon emmission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market.  This will be done by encouraging early market engagement between public authority procurers, suppliers and developers of  products and services in the pre-procurement phase of public tenders.

As a project partner ESPO fully supports the initiatives in the market engagement of:

  • Lighting systems (eg LED lighting, organic-LED lighting, lighting tubes)
  • Highly energy efficient electric vehicles (passenger and duty cars)
  • Heating/cooling systems using renewable energy sources
  • Office equipment and computers

To learn more about the SMART-SPP project please click on the following link:

www.smart-spp.eu

 

GREEN CHOICES

ESPO's Green Choices brochure has a selection of recycled and sustainable products taken from our 2009/10 catalogue.  It follows on from a successful 2008/9 version which proved very popular with our customers.

To view our downloadable Green Choices Brochure please click on the following link:

A5 GreenChoices 16pp.pdf