Green Procurement Scorecard: Electronic parts, components and test instruments - Green Procurement - Buying and Selling - PWGSC

About this Green Procurement Scorecard

Suppliers can use this Green Procurement Scorecard to learn what environmental criteria are in place for solicitation opportunities and demonstrate that they meet the criteria when submitting a proposal.

Effective date: 2014-03-14

GSIN Code – N5999

This is the code used by the federal government to identify generic product descriptions for its procurement activities.

Good/Service Description

For the supply and delivery of various electronic part and components, tools, test instruments, radio frequency and microwave components. These products are generally included in the federal classification of goods 59 excluding N5975 electrical hardware and supplies and are also included in classifications 51, 52, 53, 60 and 66.

Glossary

Criteria:

Green procurement clauses and conditions that are or may be incorporated in the past, current or future RFx.

GSIN Code:

Code used by the federal government to identify generic goods or services descriptions for its procurement activities.

Good/Service Description:

The description of the good or service that corresponds to the Goods and Services Identification Number (GSIN).

RFx (past, current, future):

Request for X=Standing Offer, Supply Arrangement, or Proposal. RFSO, RFSA or RFP.

Mandatory specification:

Mandatory green procurement clauses and conditions that are or may be incorporated in the past, current or future RFx.

Optional or Point-Rated specification:

Optional or point-rated green procurement clauses and conditions that are or may be incorporated in the past, current or future RFx.

Potential specification:

Potential green procurement clauses and conditions that have not yet been incorporated in the past, current or future RFx.

Supplier Criteria Category:

Category Headings for green procurement clauses and conditions that are or may be incorporated in the past, current or future RFx.

Comments or Questions

If you have any comments or questions about this Green Procurement Scorecard, please fill out our Contact Green Procurement form, and the Green Procurement Team will get back to you.

Scorecard legend:

Green: Mandatory specification.
Yellow: Optional or point-rated specification.
Red: Identified as a potential specification. Not yet incorporated into GoC procurement.

	Environmental Considerations	RFx
		Past  2009	Current  2012	Future  2015
Reports and billing	Invoices and correspondence to be sent and processed electronically	Red	Red	Yellow
	Paper is certified as originating from a sustainably managed forest and/or has a minimum of 30% recycled content	Red	Green	Green
	Limitations on number of hard copies of documents provided	Red	Green	Green
	Use of electronic signatures, where client capacity to accept them exists, to reduce paper consumption	Red	Red	Yellow
	Access to an on-line catalogue, if any, for this category	Red	Green	Green
Environmental Commitments and Plans	Green products are identifiable in the distributor and/or manufacturer catalogues	Red	Green	Green
Environmental Records	Manufacturer's environmental policy statement	Red	Yellow	Green
	Manufacturer has history on environmental initiatives.	Red	Green	Green
	Manufacturer has conducted waste audit.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Manufacturer has plans for environmental improvements.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Manufacturer has ISO 14000 certification or other Environmental Management System (EMS)	Red	Yellow	Green
Product design	Waste material from the manufacturing process is minimized.	Red	Yellow	Yellow
	Waste material from the manufacturing process is recycled.	Red	Yellow	Yellow
	End-of-life electronics management approach for reduction of elimination of hazardous material meet.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Restriction Of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Design for reuse, recycle and energy efficiency, minimizing travel requirement.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Items made using alternative Energy Sources (e.g) solar, wind energy or not requiring batteries.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Reduce or eliminate hazardous and Toxic substance in production process.	Red	Yellow	Yellow
	Designing for end of life management.	Red	Yellow	Yellow
	Meet Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive	Red	Yellow	Green
	Meet the recycling requirement of Electronics Product Stewardship of Canada (EPSC)	Red	Yellow	Green
	Recyclable and/or reusable end product components	Red	Yellow	Green
Resource input	Use of non-organic solvent-based adhesives	Red	Red	Yellow
	Metal components finished using low VOC emitting technology	Red	Red	Yellow
	Metal parts contain recycled content	Red	Yellow	Green
	Plastic parts contain recycled content	Red	Yellow	Green
	Major rigid plastic parts stamped with composition code or not stamps for recycling	Red	Yellow	Green
	Offer products that contain bio-based plastics over petroleum-derived plastics when they are available	Red	Yellow	Yellow
Packaging and Distribution	Packaging is designed to minimize waste.	Yellow	Yellow	Green
	Recycled materials are used to produce the packaging.	Yellow	Yellow	Green
	Shortening transportation routes to reduce the environmental impact of shipping	Red	Yellow	Yellow
	Packaging made of sustainable wood or paper products (sustainably managed forests certification - Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI), Canadian Standards Association (CSA) or equivalent.	Red	Yellow	Green
	Minimal, reusable and/or recyclable packaging of products	Red	Yellow	Green
Disposal	Program exists to recondition, reuse, or recycle parts	Red	Green	Green
	Participation in any Provincial electronic recycling program that apply to their products.	Red	Yellow	Green