Green /Sustainable Procurement & Procurement procedures for Development Partners

Green & Sustainable procurement is a short course about taking social and environmental factors into consideration alongside financial factors in making procurement decisions. It involves looking beyond the traditional economic parameters and making decisions based on the whole life cost, the associated risks, measures of success and implications for society and the environment. Making decisions in this way requires setting procurement into the broader strategic context including value for money, performance management, corporate and community priorities. This course is designed to solidify and build on your understanding of how to integrate sustainability in the supply chain in order to promote sustainability issues via key control points of the procurement cycle.

More specifically, the course will cover how sustainability affects activities like specification development, tender criteria, proposal evaluation, contract award and whole-life costing techniques.

Delegates will receive practical guidance on how to implement sustainability themes across these different areas, as well as understand how to proactively manage sustainability across a range of expenditure categories.

Aim & Challenge

Traditional procurement has focused upon value for money considerations. The aim and challenge of Green & sustainable procurement is to integrate environmental and social considerations into the procurement process, with the goal of reducing adverse impacts upon health, social conditions and the environment, thereby saving valuable costs for public sector organizations and the community at large.

Training Modules

• Meaning of Green Procurement
• Characteristics of Green Products
• Initial Steps of Green Procurement
• Elements of Green Procurement
• Government initiatives – climate change act, sustainable procurement national action plan, flexible framework, etc
• Sustainability principles – triple bottom line, life cycle analysis, etc
• Policy Outline of Green Procurement
• Implementing Green Procurement Programmes
• Building a sustainable procurement policy – what to include?
• Definition, meaning and benefits of a Sustainable Procurement Policy
• Review of Sustainable Procurement Policies in the past
• Opportunities for institutional growth
• Developing Strategies for Sustainable Procurement Policies
• Control points in the procurement life cycle – ‘points of influence’
• Principles & Framework for Procuring Sustainably
• What to include in specifications (rethink, reuse, recycle)
• Aggregation, demand management and stakeholder engagement (reduce, reuse)
• Supplier pre-qualification and sustainability selection criteria
• Criteria for tender / proposal evaluation and contract award
• Managing sustainability as a contract performance issue – developing meaningful KPIs
• Proactive supplier development in relation to sustainability
• Prioritisation and sustainable risk assessment – identifying the key risk commodity areas

Way forward After the Training

Participants will develop a work plan through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.

Training Evaluation:

Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge and skills and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.