EPEAT Education and Outreach for Small Businesses

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EPEAT Education and Outreach for Small Businesses

• Catherine Cesnik
• Department of the Interior
• 2009 Federal Environmental Symposium East

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Small Businesses Help meet Agency Purchasing Goals

• All agencies required to buy 95 EPEAT Registered
  Products
• Purchase card holders know to use small
  businesses when available
• Small business need to offer EPEAT to ensure we
  can reach goals
• Side benefit small business help education DOI
  purchase card holders about EPEAT

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How Feds Can Tell TheirSmall Business Partners
about EPEAT

• 1. Contact your OSDBU rep
• http//www.osdbu.gov/offices.html
• 2. Give them these EPEAT for Small Businesses
  slides
• http//www.doi.gov/greening/electronics/
• 3. Offer to present to their next outreach
  meeting with small businesses using these slides

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Interiors Small Business Outreach Pilot

• Partnership
• DOI Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance
• DOI Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
  Utilization
• EPA, EPEAT Program
• Northwest Region Small Business Outreach Event,
  May 13, 2009
• OSDBU Council Meeting, June 18th

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Whats an OSDBU?
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization

• OSDBU's Overview
• Created as part of the Small Business Act (SBA)
• Pursuant to Public Law 95-507, every federal
  agency is required to have an OSDBU.
• The primary responsibility of the OSDBU is to
  ensure that small businesses are treated fairly
  and have an opportunity to compete and be
  selected for a fair amount of the agency's
  contracting and subcontracting dollars.

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Whats an OSDBU?
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization

• OSDBU's Mission
• To ensure that small business policies and goals
  of the Department are implemented in a fair,
  efficient, and effective manner to serve small
  businesses.
• To implement DOI's activities on behalf of small
  businesses, in accordance with Sections 8, 15,
  and 31 of the SBA, as amended.
• To provide opportunities, technical assistance,
  and financial services to the small business
  community.

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Whats an OSDBU?
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization

• OSDBU's Customers
• Small Businesses (SB)
• Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB)
• 8(a) firms
• Woman-Owned Businesses (WOB)
• Historically Underutilized Business Zone
  (HUBZone) Businesses
• Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB)
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
  (SDVOSB)

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OSDBUs Greening Good Partners

• Similar Goals
• Meeting purchasing requirements
• Education and outreach to Contracting Officers
  and purchase card holders
• Acquisition policy development and implementation

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OSDBUs Greening Good Partners

• OSDBU Resources
• Education and outreach is their mission and
  regular business practice
• Small business network

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May 13, 2009DOI Small Businesses
ConferencePortland, OR

• What is EPEAT
• Who uses EPEAT
• How was it developed
• How does it function
• Where is it going
• Website orientation search functionality,
  purchaser resources, benefits calculator, etc
• QA

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May 13, 2009DOI Small Businesses
ConferencePortland, OR

• Sample slides to follow

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EPEAT Environmental Criteria
23 required and 28 optional criteria

• Criteria Categories
• Environmentally Sensitive Materials
• Materials Selection
• Design for End of Life
• Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension
• Energy Conservation
• End of Life Management
• Corporate Performance
• Packaging

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Why Start with PCs ?
Printers (6)
LAN Office Telecoms (7)
Mobile Telecoms (9)
PCs and Monitors (39) (excluding embodied energy)
Fixed-Line Telecoms (15)
Servers, including cooling (23)
ICT accounts for approximately 2 of global CO2
emissions.
Thanks to Gartner Intl for this information and
analysis
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32 Participating Manufacturers

• Acer
• Apple
• Arquimedes Automatacao
• AsusTek
• CIARA-TECH
• Corporativo Lanix
• CTL
• Dell
• EIZO NANAO
• Fujitsu
• Gammatech
• General Dynamics Itronix
• GETAC
• Hewlett Packard
• Howard Technology Solutions
• Hyundai IT America

• Lenovo
• LG Electronics
• MA Technology
• MDG Computers
• NCS Technologies
• NEC Display Solutions
• Northern Micro
• Panasonic
• Philips Electronics
• Positivo Informatica
• Samsung
• Sony Electronics
• Toshiba
• TPV
• Transource
• Viewsonic

As of 05/11/2009. See www.epeat.net/Companies.aspx
for current list.
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Some Purchasers Using EPEAT

• National Governments
• USA (approx 65 billion in contracts citing
  EPEAT) NASA, DOD, EPA, DHS, DOE, DOI, GSA, now in
  Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR Subpart
  23.7).
• Canadian Federal Government Master Agreement
• New Zealand Environmental Ministry, Govt. of
  Thailand, Govt. of Singapore
• Private Sector
• Kaiser Permanente, HSBC, Premier Inc., McKesson,
  Marriott International, Deloitte, Tesco
• Cities
• San Francisco, Phoenix, AZ, San Jose, CA,
  Vancouver, BC, Seattle, WA, Portland OR, Los
  Angeles County, Culver City, CA, Providence RI,
  Keene NH
• States/Provinces
• California, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
  York, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Provinces of
  Nova Scotia, Ontario,Quebec
• Higher Ed Cornell, Yale, University of
  California system

More purchaser information at www.epeat.net/RFP.as
px
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Sample Contract Language

• For desktops, laptops and monitors
• The Government reserves the right to require or
  otherwise provide preference on contractor
  solutions that include specific models of desktop
  computers, notebooks and monitors qualified
  through the Electronics Products Environmental
  Assessment Tool (EPEAT) or its successor.
•        
• For forthcoming printing and imaging equipment
• DEPARTMENT/AGENCY reserves the right to
  require, via upcoming technology refreshes to
  this contract, products meeting the upcoming IEEE
  1680.2 Standard for the Environmental Assessment
  of Imaging Equipment, and/or the IEEE 1680.3
  Standard for the Environmental Assessment of
  Televisions once these standards are final and
  publicly available. The Contractor shall be
  responsible for ensuring equipment meets the
  latest EPEAT registration requirements before it
  is delivered. The registration requirements and a
  list of all equipment meeting the requirements
  will be available at www.epeat.net.
• At the time that these new IEEE standards are
  final, suppliers will be required to provide
  quarterly reports quantifying the number of EPEAT
  registered products purchased under this
  contract.

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Ways for IT Providers to Participate

• Brand Owner (manufacturer / integrator)
• Registers their branded products in EPEAT
• Is responsible for proving that their products
  meet the standard. Must support EPEAT technical
  verification.
• Signs legal contract with EPEAT
• Pays annual fee to EPEAT
• Reseller
• Sell products that a brand owner has registered
  in EPEAT
• Signs simple agreement with EPEAT
• Minimal cost
• Recognized on web site

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EPEAT Partner Programs

• Programs designed to deliver EPEAT
  info/assistance
• to point of purchase make it easy to use and
  comply
• Reseller Partners - commit to provide EPEAT
• information and support, access EPEAT assistance
• and information, recognition
• Distributor Partners Provide product info and
• training on EPEAT to the channel
• Purchasing Partners and Champions commit to
• purchase EPEAT products, report annually on
• purchasing

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Partner Services Data Feed

• EPEAT provides partners an up-to-the-second
  accurate snapshot of the EPEAT registry
• Partners use this to identify EPEAT registered
  products in their catalogs
• Commercial data publishers and distributors also
  use this data feed to identify EPEAT registered
  products
• Product data publishers CBS Interactive
  (formerly CNET Channel), Channel Intelligence
• Product Distributors Ingram Micro, Synnex,
  TechData
• EPEAT registered products are identified via
  product technical specs or EPEAT logos in
  thousands of on-line retailers and shopping
  engines

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Questions / Contact

• Catherine Cesnik
• U.S. Department of the Interior
• Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance
• 202-208-7554
• Catherine_Cesnik_at_ios.doi.gov

Holly Elwood EPEAT Headquarters
Lead Environmental Protection Agency 202-564-8854
Elwood.holly_at_epa.gov