Clare Lambert

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• Clare Lambert
• Sustainable Development Manager
• Jeff Segal
• Head of Procurement

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Background

• Small scale projects
• ISO14001
• Began work in 2001
• Procurement, Property and Building Services

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What were your aims and objectives?

• Having a whole cycle approach
• Identifying priorities for teams as a whole
• Including
• Energy
• Local Business Initiative
• Waste
• Legal Compliance

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What did you do?

• Energy
• 32 renewable energy
• Local Business Initiative
• Over 26million to local business
• Environment and CSR policies
• Training Courses and workshop
• Waste
• Survey of contractors
• Training workshop
• Legal Compliance
• New standard clauses

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Outcomes/ Benefits

• What were the outcomes/ benefits?
• Positive PR
• Business support
• Legal compliance
• Were there any measurable benefits?
• Reduction in CO2 emissions

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Strategic Service Partnership

• 2005 SSP for support services
• Three way partnership
• Thurrock Council, Vertex, United Utilities
• 15 year contract

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What were the challenges and how did you deal
with them?

• Seamless transition
• Procurement transformation
• Mainstreaming the work
• New ways of working
• Understanding the partnership roles
• Continuity/ continuous improvement

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What have you learned? What would you do
differently?

• Develop a programme of hand over, communication
  and training
• Include targets into the partnership contract

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Post Partnership Success

• Enhanced awareness and understanding of the
  issues
• 100 green energy contract
• Recycled preferred stationery list
• New standard clauses
• Integral environmental evaluation of tender
  documents

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Contact details

• Leading officer Jeff Segal jsegal_at_thurrock.gov.
  uk 01375 652750
• Further contacts Clare Lambert
  clambert_at_thurrock.gov.uk 01375 652910
• www.thurrock.gov.uk