Supply chain & Services
The public sector is expected to consider climate change in deciding:
- whether to buy at all
- what to buy
- how to buy
- how much to buy
- end of life/recycle/reuse options
Bidders and suppliers should be asked to provide low carbon goods, services and works, and to deliver circular solutions.
Resources
- The Scottish Government has produced a range of Sustainabl Procurement Tools including the Procurement Prioritisation Tool and has set public procurement priorities, high level aims and aspirational delivery statements for all public procurement leaders.
- A range of case studies are also available here
- Contracts Resources provides information on what climate change means for contracts
- Spotlights on procurement from 2020/21 Public Bodies Duties reports included in the SSN Summary Analysis Report pages18-20.
- Office equipment – the ZWS tool enables calculation of embedded carbon associated with common office equipment. The tool can be used when planning the replacement of office equipment in tandem with the application of circular economy principles of reduce, repair, reuse.
- Food/catering – TUCO provides an online tool for calculating the emissions footprint of different foods according to origin
- APUC Operational Procurement Strategy and Action Plan, Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges, Reviewed Jun/Jul 2022. This aims to maximise the value of Scotland’s investment in further and higher education by working in partnership with institutions to support and enable sustainable innovation in procurement and shared service optimisation.
- Aberdeenshire Council’s Resources and Circular Economy Commitment will promote, effect and support circular economy principles and practice internally and in external areas of influence.