Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy
Computers & Displays, Office Printing Equipment, Mobile Phones
US Federal Government
Awards
2019 EPEAT Purchaser Award Winner – 3 Stars
2015 EPEAT Purchaser Award Winner – 2 Stars
Over their lifetime, compared to products that do not meet EPEAT criteria, the 15,102 EPEAT-registered IT products purchased by Sandia National Laboratories in 2018 will result in environmental impact reductions including:
Reduce use of primary materials by 1,618 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 311 elephants
Avoid the disposal of 14 metric tons of hazardous waste, equal to the weight of 116 refrigerators
Eliminate the equivalent of 39 U.S. households’ solid waste for a year—73 metric tons
Avoidance of 10.3 metric tons of water pollutant emissions
Energy-Related Savings EPEAT’s requirement that registered products meet, and often exceed, the latest ENERGY STAR specifications means these products will consume less energy throughout their useful life, resulting in:
Savings of 5,551 MWh of electricity—enough to power 457 U.S. households for a year
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 3,237 metric tons of CO2 equivalents—equal to taking 693 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year
$568,242 in lifetime cost savings
Specific Language in one all computer equipment contract copied below. There are two other contracts, one for PC’s, Monitors and Servers (no imaging equipment) and the other solely for laptops.
A. GENERAL INFORMATION In accordance with Supply Chain Management Center (SCMC) Agreement WS#####, the Contractor shall fill and deliver Just-In-Time (JIT) orders for XXXXX computers, laptops*, monitors, displays, imaging equipment, servers**, XXXXX tablets, and peripherals (memory, hard drives, cables, etc.) as defined in the most current electronic catalog. Orders for peripherals not contained in the electronic catalog may be placed as a non-catalog order. Sandia reserves the right to procure by other means any item available for purchase through the agreement. *All laptop requesters must complete a Business Needs Justification form prior to placing an order. **The supplier shall enter orders for Data Storage Systems or New Server or Server Room Equipment (inclusive of disk arrays, switches, rack cooling systems, and large capacity uninterruptible power supplies) only after approval from the Data Center Consolidation team at Sandia National Laboratories. B. REQUIREMENTS Product Requirements 1. Sandia maintains a “Preferred Systems list for Enterprise systems. An Enterprise system is defined as a system that is usually connected to Sandia’s network, supported by the Sandia Computer Support Department and is used by an individual accessing corporate applications in the performance of their job. The “Preferred Systems” list is comprised of systems that Sandia has evaluated and approved. This approval signifies that the system will function properly in the Sandia computing environment. 2. Disablement of microphones, cameras, and Bluetooth on products purchased will be performed as requested. However, these disablements will not occur by default. Green Requirements All desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this contract are required to have achieved Silver registration or higher under the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), https://www.epeat.net/. EPEAT is a procurement tool designed to help large volume purchasers evaluate, compare, and select desktop computers, laptops, and monitors based upon their environmental attributes as specified in the consensus-based IEEE Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products (1680).Effective January 29, 2013, all imaging equipment shall be EPEAT Bronze or higher. The term “imaging equipment” as used here, to include individual (desk) printers, group printers, fax machines, copiers, and other multi-function (imaging) devices. • Power management features should be enabled by default. • All imaging equipment supplied to SNL by vendor shall be duplex-printing capable. Additionally, duplexing should be enabled on all printers by default. Reporting To meet DOE requirements to report purchases of EPEAT qualified equipment, supplier agrees to furnish SNL/NM with an EPEAT specific report on a quarterly basis, upon a data request from the SNL/NM pollution prevention program. This report shall include description, quantity, unit price, extended prices and associated EPEAT rating for each model purchased that quarter. If purchases are made of non-EPEAT qualified equipment, those must also be included in the report with an indicator of “non-EPEAT”.
*EPEAT Purchasing Tier indicates how many EPEAT categories are specified in the organization’s purchasing agreements
Becca provides administrative support to the internal processes for Green Electronics Council and the EPEAT program. She divides her time between supporting the financial processes and the EPEAT conformity assurance program. Becca has over five years of experience working in the non-profit sphere. Prior to joining GEC, Becca worked as a bookkeeper at Susan Matlack Jones & Associates (SMJ), specializing in non-profit financial statements. At SMJ she was responsible for the creation of monthly financial statements for several local non-profits. Prior to working at SMJ, Becca has worked at various non-profits helping them streamline their processes and procedures. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and History from University of California, Santa Cruz. In her spare time, Becca enjoys hiking, exploring Portland and volunteering.
Senior Managing Consultant, Smarter Cities, Water and Transportation, Innovation, Research & Development at IBM
Jean-François Barsoum has over 20 years of experience at IBM where his focus is on understanding and communicating the societal and environmental impacts of technology. He was part of the core team that built the smart city concepts in the early 2000s.
Currently, his main objective is to communicate and popularise climate change solutions, smart city innovations, and the potential impacts of autonomous vehicles.
In 2008, he was selected by Al Gore’s Climate Project to be trained by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He later joined the board of directors of the Canadian branch of Mr. Gore’s Foundation for Climate change education.
He regularly advises startups in incubators and accelerators, and is collaborating on large research collaborations with several Canadian universities.
He chairs the disruptive technology committee of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Quebec Smart Transportation experts’ committee; is a director at the Canadian Water Network, and has advised the Canadian government on cleantech programs. He is also part of the committee overseeing the application of the Quebec Policy on Sustainable Mobility.
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