Project Scope

The National Academies, under a collaboration between the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, will host a workshop on December 7-8, 2011, on fostering better sustainability considerations in procurement tools and capabilities across the public and private sectors.  The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions to assess the current landscape of green purchasing tools, identify opportunities and emerging requirements for enhanced and/or new tools, identify potential barriers to progress (such as cross-tool interoperability), and explore potential solutions.  It will also consider associated training required to realize the full benefits of these tools. The workshop will include participants from, but not limited to, users of procurement tools (including federal, state, and local government and industry), experts in sustainable procurement, developers and users familiar with open data, and companies that develop and sell procurement tools and related software.

Meetings & Events

Sustainable Acquistion: Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities - A Workshop
December 7-8, 2011
Location: 20 F St Conference Center, Washington, DC  

Reports

Report forthcoming 

PLANNING COMMITTeE MEmbers

• Dara O'Rourke
  Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Peter Graf
  Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President, SAP
• Patrick Mallet
  Founder and Credibility Director, ISEAL Alliance
• H. Scott Matthews
  Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
• Teresa Neal
  Product Marketing Director, SciQuest
   

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by the General Services Administration.