Low Carbon Vending Services
Supplier Meeting
Gaynor Whyles, JERA Consulting
Sheffield University
November 2014
Buyers Group (so far)
The Central Procurement Company of
Lombardy Region
Towards Zero Carbon Catering
Procurement Compact
• “Progressively lower
carbon catering goods
and services”
• Embedded carbon –
beyond operational
carbon
• Reflected in evaluation
criteria
• Make adjustments to
the procurement
process
• Enable differentiation on
factors other than price
 Using public (and private sector) procurement to
stimulate innovation in the economy and improve public
services
 This usually means changing the way we approach
procurement

Innovation procurement?
– Buying goods and services in a way that stimulates
the supply chain to invest in developing better and
more innovative goods and services to meet the
unmet needs of an organisation
Why innovation procurement approach?
 Existing solutions and ‘business as usual approaches’ will not
deliver what is needed
– We need new and innovative solutions - or we will fail
 Innovation leaders - both public sector and supply chain need to set new standards
 The Public Sector approach to procurement needs to be better at
stimulating, encouraging and enabling innovation.
 The tool developed in the UK is Forward Commitment
Procurement
 Creating new solutions to deliver better public services
and support competitiveness of European economy.
ERASMUS MC
Sustainable
Bed Washing
Facility
Thermal Comfort
for Hospital
Patients and Staff
Zero Waste
Prison
Mattress
Some Case
Examples of
FCP in Action
ROTHERHAM NHS
FOUNDATION TRUST
Future Ward Solution
ROTHERHAM
NHS TRUST
People centered
low carbon
catering
RAWICZ COUNTY
HOSPITAL
Low Carbon UNIFORMS
NOTTINGHAM NHS
TRUST
Low Carbon Energy Fuel Cell CHP
The buyer-supplier paradox
 Suppliers respond to customer demand; Customers tend to buy
what is available – rather than asking for what they need……….this
leads to ‘more of the same’ and stifles innovation
 In practice?
– Cross-departmental engagement in the
procurement process
– Identify ‘unmet needs’ - ask for what is needed
not what is available
– Market engagement and consultation on the
specification and approach
– Outcome based specifications
– Pro-innovation procurement strategies
– Use of competitive dialogue, forward
commitment, whole life costing, pilots within
procurement process,
– Buyers Group
– develop wider markets in UK and Europe
– Whole-life costing / Total cost of ownership
 What we ask of the supply chain
– To respond to the unmet needs in a creative and innovative way
– Offer tomorrow’s not just today’s solutions
– seek out new solutions
– stimulate new solutions in the supply chain
– ask about opportunities for trialling and piloting
– Build in progressive innovation and improvement
 Clarifications
– Carbon reduction is not the same as environmental sustainability
– Embedded / embodied carbon not just operational
– Not convinced about Carbon Off-Setting
– Innovation low carbon does not mean more expensive
– the case of prison mattresses
– carbon reduction at Anglian Water
Carbon reduction in the supply chain:
UK CLG Member Anglian Water
Carbon emissions – direct and indirect
Product Portfolio Footprinting for your
supply chain
“The key to success was to begin by
asking for what was needed – not what
we thought was available or affordable.
The results have exceeded all
expectations. FCP really works”.
John Cartwright, Director of Estates and
Facilities, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust.
Thank you
Questions and
comments?
Workshop Session
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Where is the carbon and opportunities for reduction?
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What are the opportunities for carbon reduction in the
supply of vending services?
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What are the barriers to delivering a low carbon vending
service ?
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What would support the supply chain to deliver a low carbon
vending service?
How can our procurement process support on-going supply
chain innovation to deliver a progressively lower carbon vending
services?
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What business model would you propose for this contract?