Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.78
Liaison Sarah Rykal
Submission Date Nov. 4, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Wisconsin-Stout
OP-17: Guidelines for Business Partners

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 1.00 Tim Cline
Graduate Assistant
Sustainability Office
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How many of the institution’s business partners are covered by policies, guidelines and/or agreements that require adherence to minimum environmental standards?:
None

How many of the institution’s business partners are covered by policies, guidelines and/or agreements that require adherence to minimum standards governing employee wages, benefits, working conditions and rights?:
None

A copy of the policies, guidelines, and/or agreements with the institution's business partners (or a representative sample):
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The policies, guidelines, and/or agreements with the institution's business partners (or a representative sample):
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A brief description of programs and strategies institution has implemented to ensure that the guidelines are followed, including a brief description of instances when the guidelines have changed purchasing behavior, if applicable:

UW-Stout does not, per say, have a vendor code of conduct that we can point to. However, we do have Terms and Conditions that are attached to every Purchase Order that we send to a vendor that in many ways stipulates the conduct of what is expected.

URL for the vendor code of conduct is posted:
http://vendornet.state.wi.us/vendornet/doaforms/doafrm.ASP


The website URL where information about the institution’s guidelines for its business partners is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Purchasing Department will be asked to begin tracking vendors which do and do not following the vendor code of conduct.


Purchasing Department will be asked to begin tracking vendors which do and do not following the vendor code of conduct.

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