Goal

The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program is to help DOE sites recognize the value of environmentally preferable products (especially those with attributes specified by Congress: biobased/recycled content, energy/water efficient, alternative fuels/vehicles, and non-ozone depleting) and transition to them as quickly as possible.

Within DOE, the responsibility for purchasing products specified by Congress is spread among multiple offices and within those offices multiple organizations, each with the same need to promote the purchase of a preferred product. Staff in each of the offices responsible for a particular preferred product initiated an informal Preferred Procurement Partnership to leverage our common efforts and give DOE sites consistent sources of information, such as quarterly teleconferences and reporting Web sites, joint strategic plans and awards programs, identifying purchasers and users (green teams), technology transfer, and technical support for problem solving.

The offices comprising the Preferred Procurement Partnership are:

• Environmentally Preferable and Biobased/Recycled Content Purchasing Program (Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance) - Don Lentzen



• Federal Electronics Stewardship Program (Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance) - Jeff Eagan



• Non-Ozone Depleting Substances (Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance) - Emile Boulos

• Alternative Fuels/Vehicles (Office of Federal Energy Management Program) - Brad Gustafson



• Energy/Water Efficient Products (Office of the Federal Energy Management Program) - Cyrus Nasseri



• High Performance and Sustainable Buildings (Office of the Federal Energy Management Program)- Anne Crawley

• Procurement (Office of Procurement and Assistance Management Policy) - Richard Langston