Drivers to sustainable procurement

The main drivers towards achieving sustainable procurement are:

• Effective organization wide policies to ensure that everyone is aware of the strategy
• Training and guidance to help all of those involved in procurement to understand sustainable procurement and whole life costing;
• Regular audits and monitoring to assess where your organization is in the context of sustainable procurement and where you could make further progress in this area
• Commitment to sustainable development as an organizational policy
• supporting and educating suppliers/creating markets
• linking up with other organizations to learn from their experience
• pooling procurement by forming procurement consortium where relevant