Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.23
Liaison Daimon Eklund
Submission Date Oct. 17, 2012
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

University of Washington, Seattle
OP-12: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.83 / 2.00 Claudia Christensen
Procurement Manager
Procurement Services
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase recycled content office paper?:
Yes

The URL where the recycled paper 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 :

Procurement Services provides guidance and information for the campus department regarding purchasing activites and best practices. The department functions as a hub for most of purchasing done by the UW's departments. This office hads created a series of guides and policies, which makes it easy to by green products. http://f2.washington.edu/fm/ps/

There is the easy to use eProcurement web-portal, which makes it easy to select green and environmentally responsible products and services.
http://f2.washington.edu/fm/ps/ecommerce/eprocurement

There is the "How to buy guide", which gives a lot of guidelines on how to and what to buy.
http://f2.washington.edu/fm/ps/how-to-buy


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

Expenditures on 10-29 percent recycled-content office paper :
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 30-49 percent recycled-content office paper :
171,700 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 50-69 percent recycled-content office paper :
137,360 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 70-89 percent recycled-content office paper (required if claiming points for Part 2):
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 90-100 percent recycled-content office paper :
1,373,601 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on office paper :
1,717,001 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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