Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.29
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Feb. 17, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.85 / 1.00 Ezra Small
Sustainability Manager
Physical Plant
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Total annual expenditures on electronics:
4,492,095.97 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on environmentally or socially preferable electronics:
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold registered and/or third party certified at the highest achievable level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 3,220,937.17 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver registered and/or third party certified at mid-level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 547,263.98 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze registered and/or third party certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 342,136.11 US/Canadian $
Labeled under a single-attribute standard 0 US/Canadian $

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
Yes

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
The procurement data for this credit comes from our BuyWays system and includes all IT purchases that fall within the STARS criteria within the FY22 timeframe.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s electronics purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Students and Staff in the 2022 Sustainability Fellowship program supported by the Physical Plant Sustainability office performed the EPEAT data research on the over $4.4 million in IT purchases for this report. See attached spreadsheets for data.

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