Best Practice Guides on Buying for Environment

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.