Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.23
Liaison Daimon Eklund
Submission Date Oct. 17, 2012
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STARS v1.2

University of Washington, Seattle
OP-10: Computer Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.41 / 2.00 Claudia Christensen
Procurement Manager
Procurement Services
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase EPEAT Silver or higher computers and monitors?:
Yes

The website URL where the EPEAT policy, directive, or guidelines are posted :
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :

Existing University contracts include the requirement that all products be EPEAT Silver or Gold. The University has established an institution standard of EPEAT Gold for all laptops and desktops. Suppliers flag thes products in their electronic catalogs making the choice easy for campus.
100% of the purchases from our contract suppliers meet this requirement. Our purchasing guidelines direct campus to source such products from contract suppliers.


Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on EPEAT computers)?:
Yes

Expenditures on EPEAT Gold desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
12,451,806.56 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on EPEAT Silver desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
0 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
20,586,417.54 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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