Develop "best practice" guides on buying for the environment. By April 1995, the President should direct the development of one or more guides on contracting issues related to implementation of energy management programs and buying for the environment. These guides should be distributed to government procurement personnel and be used in conducting the conference workshops that are required under the Energy Policy Act.8 The guides should convey lessons learned and provide best practices information for contracting for energy and environmentally related supplies and services, including construction. The guides should address procurement issues that are being raised by operational procurement personnel, such as how to determine whether the project is a service contract or a construction contract; what can be ordered from areawide utility contracts; how to place orders; what are the government's obligations in terms of awarding contracts under the Energy Policy Act to small, small disadvantaged, and small womenowned business concerns; and what are procedures for establishing energy performance contracts. Endnote 8. Energy Policy Act, 156.
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