BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: ELECTRONICS PURCHASING

Federal Guidance

EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Guide: Greening Your Purchase of Electronics

This guide provides model criteria and contracts, sample Energy Star contract language, a useful list of "What Can You Do?", Five Guiding Principles for Green Purchasing, and more. Visit http://www.epa.gov/oppt/epp/pfs.htm. (this site is temporarily off-line due to stakeholder concerns.)

Federal Energy Star?

The following language is exemplary of the approach taken by the Energy Star? program: 

Energy Star? Sample Contract Language (partial listing)

The Vendor Must:

1. Provide ENERGY STAR? labeled computers that are configured so that they automatically enter a low-power mode after a period of inactivity.

2. Provide computers in low-power mode that will automatically return to active mode upon resumption or system activity or receipt of external input (e.g., mouse movement, keyboard activity, typing a password, modem interrupts, etc.).

3. Ship computers with the power management feature enabled.

Federal Purchasing Policy

Executive Order 13101 directs federal agencies to identify and give preference to the purchase of products and services that pose fewer environmental burdens. Executive Order 13123 and Federal Acquisition Regulation Section 23.704 direct agencies to purchase products in the upper 25% of energy efficiency, including all models that qualify for the Energy Star? labeling program.