This courses provides staff involved in specifying and purchasing with a thorough introduction to compliance requirements, processes, and tools for procuring sustainable products and services. Learners will receive specific guidance in how to meet executive order and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements and understand how sustainable acquisition benefits their agency, community, and the environment.

Learning Objectives

By completing this course you will learn to:

• Define sustainable acquisition;
• Identify key regulations that govern sustainable acquisition;
• Describe how to develop a sustainable acquisition strategy via an Environmental Management System;
• Integrate sustainable acquisition into their applicable contracts;
• Find the designated products via the Green Products Compilation;
• Learn to develop internal agency programs promoting sustainable acquisition, such as the U.S. Department of Energy GreenBuy Award Program; and
• Describe the Sustainable Acquisition reporting requirements.