Welcome to the ECO-Buy Sustainable Procurement Assessment Tool

The ECO-Buy Sustainable Procurement Assessment Tool helps you to measure your success in reducing the environmental, social and economic impact of your organisation through green purchasing. It covers all aspects of green procurement, from policy to suppliers and is designed to be completed on an annual basis.

The results of the assessment tool will determine whether your organisation is at entry, bronze, silver or gold level.

- Gold: The organisation demonstrates best practice or near-best practice in all five dimensions of sustainable procurement: people, policy, process, suppliers and measurement. These organisations also tend to drive sustainability among their suppliers.

- Silver: The organisation demonstrates best practice or near best practice in three or more of the five dimensions of sustainable procurement.

- Bronze: The organisation has established sustainable procurement management systems across three or more of the five dimensions of sustainable procurement. Best practice or near practice may even have been achieved in one or two of the five dimensions.

- Entry: The organisation may be at the beginning of its sustainable procurement journey or may have started to develop sustainable procurement management systems

The assessment tool is split into two parts.

The ECO-Buy Sustainable Procurement Assessment Tool is based on the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code progress review, an online support service for London based organisations committed to reducing their environmental impact through responsible purchasing. ECO-Buy would like to acknowledge London Remade, Action Sustainability and Sustainable Procurement Ltd for their contributions to this tool.

ECO-Buy would also like to thank Sustainability Victoria for their generous funding contribution to the development of the ECO-Buy Sustainable Procurement Assessment Tool.

The ECO-Buy Sustainable Procurement Assessment Tool is only for use by members of ECO-Buy or by organisations who have paid for its use – it is not to be shared or used by any other organisations without express permission obtained in writing from ECO-Buy Limited.