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Supplementary Information (Tables)

Greening Government Operations (GGO)

Departments and agencies bound by the Policy on Green Procurement but not the Federal Sustainable Development Act must complete mandatory reporting on meeting the requirements of Section 7 of the Policy on Green Procurement using this section.

Strategies / Comments

1. Approach: The NEB’s approach to implementing green procurement is to target the use of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) procurement instruments, the delivery of training to key personnel and the inclusion of green procurement objectives in the employee performance evaluations of key decision makers.
2. Management Processes and Controls: The NEB uses PWGSC procurement instruments as its primary procurement mechanism and leverages the environmental considerations incorporated into these standing offers by PWGSC. The NEB procurement and materiel management policies have been reviewed and updated to ensure environmental considerations are integrated.
3. Setting Targets: In addition to commitments identified in ii., iv., and v., the NEB has the following targets:
   • Ensure that 95% of all paper and furniture purchases are made through PWGSC green consolidated procurement instruments, where available.
   • Ensure that 90% of all office supply purchases are made through PWGSC consolidated procurement instruments, where available. This target was selected through an NEB spending analysis, in consideration of the mandate and the nature and risks of the Board’s purchases.
     
     This target was selected through an NEB spending analysis, in consideration of the mandate and the nature and risks of the Board’s purchases.
4. Training: All existing NEB procurement and materiel management functional specialist staff^[1] have taken the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) course C215. The NEB will also require that all new functional specialist staff and acquisition card holders take CSPS course C215 within three months of being hired or assigned van acquisition card.
5. Performance Evaluations: The Board ensures that an objective to take environmental considerations into account for all procurement activities is included in the performance management agreement of each manager of procurement functional specialists (2 managers total).
6. Meeting Targets: The NEB will report against these targets in the Departmental Performance Report.

[1] As defined by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Communities Management Office

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2023-11-27