Call to identify potential suppliers that practice sustainability and social responsibility in their line of work - GIZ Office Beirut

Sustainable purchasing is all about taking environmental and social factors into account in purchasing decisions. It’s about looking at what your products are made of, where they come from and who has made them. It’s even about looking at whether you need to make the purchase at all.

Sustainable Procurement integrates social and environmental criteria in the tendering process, thereby fostering sustainable consumption. By virtue of its overall demand, GIZ Lebanon can thus promote social and environmental responsibility and stimulate the market for sustainable goods and services.

Due to globalization, supply chains are fragmented and internationalized. Social and environmental standards are not always guaranteed by regulations. By strengthening the demand side for sustainable products, sustainable procurement can contribute to socio- and environmental-political objectives in producer and consumer countries alike. Furthermore, sustainable procurement can help you to procure in a way that is solution-oriented as well as energy- and resource-efficient, thereby achieving an overall economic advantage in the long run.

Each phase of the procurement process leaves room for maneuvers to integrate social and environmental sustainability aspects.

Interested suppliers have to have one or more of the below mentioned criteria:

• Providing local, seasonal and organic diets and reducing food waste.
• Cost savings on a long-term basis by applying life-cycle costing.
• Suppliers using local goods in their manufacturing process.
• Reducing waste, reusing where possible, and ultimately sending zero waste to landfill.
• Encouraging low carbon modes of transport to reduce emissions.
• Using sustainable healthy products, with low embodied energy, sourced locally, made from renewable or waste resources.
• Reusing, Recycling, Redistributing.
• Promoting the use of renewable resources.
• Minimizing degradation to the environment.
• Having zero or low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission.
• Conserving the use of energy and natural resources.
• Implementing corporate social responsibility in their organization.