Purchaser Profile
New York State (Office of General Services) | |||||
Computers & Displays | |||||
State Government | |||||
New York State and EPEAT: Case Study | |||||
2019 EPEAT Purchaser Award – 1 Star 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award – 1 Star 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Award – 1 Star |
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EPEAT Benefits |
Over their lifetime, compared to products that do not meet EPEAT criteria, the 190,037 EPEAT-registered IT products purchased by the NYS Office of General Services in 2018 will result in environmental impact reductions including:
Energy-Related Savings
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New York State OGS conducts an Aggregate Buy Program for microcomputers through its centralized contracts. Through this program, Authorized Users of OGS centralized contracts, which includes but is not limited to New York State Agencies, political subdivisions, local governments, public authorities, public school and fire districts, public and nonprofit libraries, and certain other nonpublic/nonprofit organizations, are permitted to purchase microcomputers that meet the specifications required by the program. Since 2008, the specifications of the Aggregate Buy have included requirements that the products awarded for the buy meet either EPEAT Silver or Gold criteria as well as the New York State Executive Order #4 (EO4) specification for Desktop and Laptop Computers. For the latest Aggregate Buy Program, which was conducted by Procurement Services under Group 7300, Award 22802 ‘Information Technology Umbrella Contract – Manufacturer Based (Statewide) in the summer of 2016, the following language is included in the ‘Minimum Technical Build Requirements’: For Enterprise Desktops, Enterprise Notebooks, Enterprise All in One, Convertible Tablets, Education Entry Level Desktops and Education Entry Level Notebooks:
For Unbundled Displays:
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$80,613,419 (2018) | |||||