Sustainable Procurement & the Buy Right Campaign

With Janine Hamilton from Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence and Jim Cranshaw from People & Planet

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• Campaign•An introduction and strategy for 2010

Agenda

• Intro and video discussion• FHE supply chains: - what’s the problem?- what can universities and colleges do?• The Buy Right campaign: what’s it all about?• The Worker Rights Consortium• Questions and over to Janine

FHE supply chains. What’s the problem?

What can universities do?

Buy Right goals and strategy

Voice: steering groups

Awareness: petition Justice: Worker Rights Consortium

Policy: make it last

Conditions in the garments industry

Women's rights violations

Sweatshop conditions

Freedom of association

Current approaches

• Lack of transparency• Lack of procurer

knowledge• 'Fox guarding the

hen-house'• Ineffective

Conclusion Any questions? Email me at

jim.cranshaw@peopleandplanet.org

Find out more at peopleandplanet.org/buyright

Thank you for listening and over to Janine...

Where to find out moreRead more about People & Planet’s Buy Right campaign

peopleandplanet.org/buyright

Find out how to socially, environmentally and ethically procure

spce.procureweb.ac.uk

How to use procurement to reduce poverty and human rights violations in the global South

eauc.org.uk/promoting_poverty_aware_procurement_on_campus

SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Monday 11th AprilEAUC Annual Conference – University of York

•Role of the SPCE

•Benefits Realisation

•Project Achievements so far

•Website

•Capacity Building - Training and Development

•Sustainable Procurement Sector Tools

•SPCE priorities for 2011/2012

•How can we embed sustainable procurement?

•Questions?

AGENDA

• 4 Year HEFCE Funded Project with additional funding from DEFRA & DCSF

• Influence culture change within the HE sector

• Build Capacity – through training and guidance, and developing procurement professionals via targeted workshops

• Develop procurement professionals capability to influence supply chains

• Address process issues

• Develop and promote measurement & monitoring tools

SPCE Website: http://spce.procureweb.ac.uk/

Role of the SPCE

Benefits Realisation

The key benefit will be culture change within the HE sector, shifting away from traditional thinking and contributing towards the embedding of sustainable development within the procurement practice and broader operations of the sector.

• Single point of contact for information regarding sustainable procurement and a source of advice and guidance

•SPCE facilitate the development of procurement professionals, so that they are enabled to make a strategic contribution to their institutions

•SPCE assist HEIs in meeting Sustainable Development (SD) objectives, including reduction of carbon emissions, by influencing the supply chain

• SPCE demonstrate how by engaging with suppliers, HEIs can develop a commodity-based procurement strategy and contribute to institutional Corporate Social Responsibility

•All English purchasing consortia will have attained level 3 of the National Action Plan’s Flexible Framework by July 2011 and at least 50 HEIs will have confirmed their attainment of this target by Dec 2011

•The Efficiency Measurement Model will be developed to incorporate data on sustainable development i.e. Definitions on environmental efficiency savings

•SPCE will help the sector go beyond a definition of value for money as simply the lowest price option, but will promote the idea of a “just price” by promoting the WLC tool

•SPCE will support development of a sector baseline in accordance with the Higher Education Carbon Reduction Strategy enabling HEI’s to develop a carbon reduction target

• Successful delivery of NSPP Programme

• HE Purchasing Consortia contract managers trained to run NSPPP development courses for their members

• Supporting the National Joint Contracting Programme

• Phase 2 of the SPCE website launched in August 2010 in collaboration with Procureweb and JISC

• Guiding procurement professionals in setting sustainability criteria for large scale up & coming Tenders

• Supporting individual institution sustainable projects – capturing best practice and disseminating to the sector

• Newly formed SPCE Expert Panel

• ICT Advisory Group

Project Achievements so far….

SPCE Website

Capacity BuildingTraining and Development

Aims of the programme:

Presenting a 1 day development session providing delegates with information and guidance on why and how to embed sustainability into public sector procurement. The development session has been created in association with the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement which is part of an overarching UN Commission for Sustainable Development programme.

The programme is part of a global approach which will hopefully generate a like-minded, effective methodology for recognising and realising the sustainability potential of public procurement. The learning is based within the context of EU and UK procurement legislation and explores the issues of relevance and proportionality within the procurement cycle and using a risk-based approach.

The Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence are working with Defra to deliver the programme to the higher education sector.

Pilot 6

Northumbria UniversityChester University Hull CollegeDerby UniversityUniversity of BirminghamQueen Mary University

SPCE Flexible Framework Survey – 2009/2010

Sustainable Procurement Sector Tools

SPCE Priorities for 2011/2012

Roll out of NSPPP via HE Consortia for all member

institutions

Collaboration/support for De Montfort University/Arup scope 3 project

Flexible Framework assessment for HE Consortia/HEI’s – assist progression to

achieve targets

Engagement with the newly formed High Value Lab

Equipment Group – creation of a baseline specifically

focussing on energy issues in research equipment

contracts

Continue to develop and assist procurement best practice to share

with the sector and increase sustainable efficiency savings

How can we embed Sustainable Procurement?

• Sustainable procurement awareness• Training and Events• Embedding sustainable procurement• Existing frameworks and incumbent suppliers• Sustainable procurement champions• Regional sustainable procurement groups• Engagement • EMM• E-Procurement

Questions?