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6. Procurement
Policy Commitments:
Avoiding the purchase and use of
environmentally damaging materials, including ozone depleting substances,
and preventing the release of pollutants
Influencing and managing our suppliers
and contractors to ensure that goods procured and services undertaken comply
with our environmental policy
Environmental Management Programme
Objectives:
To Increase The Proportion Of Environmentally
Preferable Goods Purchased
To Influence Our Suppliers And Contractors
To Improve Their Environmental Performance
6.1 Introduction
to the Issue
The products that we buy can have
an impact on the environment, depending on how they are manufactured, what
they contain, how they are used and how they are disposed of. For
example, the use of electrical appliances results in the use of energy
and the associated depletion of fuel resources and contribution to global
warming.
There may be environmentally preferable
alternatives to many of the goods that we order and information is now
more readily available to help choices to be made.
In addition, we employ contractors,
such as builders and cleaners, who can damage the environment while carrying
out their work. If they use and store environmentally hazardous materials
they will need to be properly managed so that they don’t cause a pollution
incident on our sites.
We are a powerful purchaser and we
will use this power to influence others in its supply chain to improve
their environmental performance (once, of course it has embarked upon its
own improvement programme).
6.2 Current
BSkyB Status
The role of our Procurement Department
is to facilitate and support the thorough, professional and transparent
reviews of various spend categories across the Company. To help achieve
this, the Strategic Sourcing Initiative (SSI) was launched in April 2001.
We are proactively and continually exploring improved benefits both commercially
and environmentally across all sourced products and services.
Following the completion of the environmental
review, procurement was identified as an area where performance and business
improvement can be made. Key items we will be considering in the
future include:
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High volume consumables (stationery,
paper);
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IT systems and hardware;
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Fleet vehicles.
6.3 Performance
Data
We have concluded a number of reviews
within the SSI including print, fleet, travel and catering. All of
the suppliers involved in the SSI have been asked to provide their environmental
policies as part of the RFP (Request for Proposal) and RFI (Request for
Information). They have also been asked to submit information on
any positive/negative environmental impacts on us if they successfully
become one of our preferred suppliers.
6.4 Planned
Actions to Improve
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Target Date
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| Target key suppliers and identify
where products supplied could be more environmentally preferable. |
2002/03
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| Identify environmentally preferable
alternatives, including recyclable and reusable products and products which
themselves contain recycled materials. Request information from suppliers
as to ‘green credentials’ of their products. |
2002/03
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| Draft a programme of actions for
increasing the proportion of environmentally preferable products purchased,
including costs and resources required. |
2002/03
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| Based on the above actions, develop
environmental procurement guidance for centralised and local purchasing. |
2002/03
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| Incorporate environmental considerations
in the review of the current car (essential) user scheme, and vehicle specification,
including fuel consumption, carbon dioxide/other exhaust emissions, use
of recycled parts and recyclability of parts (end-of-life disposal issues). |
2002/03
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| Provide all existing and new suppliers
and contractors with a copy of our Environmental Policy and discuss key
existing suppliers’/contractors’ own efforts to improve environmental performance
in order to identify those more proactive suppliers/contractors and share
ideas on best practice.
Record (separately) the number of
policies sent out to existing and new suppliers/contractors.
In the future, once our environmental
management processes are established, request compliance of all suppliers
and contractors with the policy. |
2002/03
New suppliers/ contractors - ongoing,
at contract award stage
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| Include environmental performance
considerations at contractor/supplier selection stage, for example in supplier
evaluation questionnaires, such as asking whether they operate a certified
environmental management system (EMS) and requesting a copy of the certificate. |
2002/03
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| Periodically audit the environmental
performance of major suppliers and contractors whose products/services
can have a significant impact on the environment (particularly those working
on our sites). |
Frequency dependent on duration
of contract and risks associated with service supplied
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6.5 Case Studies/Interesting
Facts
The TV Guide has been a focus point
for the Strategic Sourcing Initiative. As a consequence of the SSI,
new printers, Gruner & Jahr, were selected as the best supplier for
future production. In part this was due to their advanced environmental
technology and ecological business principles. Gruner & Jahr
do not use wood from primary forests in paper production and their standard
paper product is 100% chlorine-free bleached. They also make extensive
use of recycled material in their products. We are reviewing the
feasibility of recycled paper for the TV Guide.
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