Guidance - Buy IT Fair: Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers

Buy IT Fair: Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers

Public institutions have become major customers of computer brand companies with a critical market share that can influence the IT sector’s development towards social and environmental sustainability goals.

The Buy IT Fair guide provides assistance in implementing sustainable tenders of computers. Computer hardware is nowadays almost exclusively produced in developing countries, often under poor working conditions. The Buy IT Fair guide focuses on the working conditions of the supply chains of brand name IT companies as reasonable working conditions are often neglected in favour of the growing trend to consider environmental criteria in public procurement of computers.

The guide is pioneering in making criteria regarding the working conditions in the supply chain of computer brand companies applicable. It shows how procurement bodies can formulate specific minimum requirements and additional incentives to achieve this goal.

Download a copy of the Buy IT Fair Guide here.

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