Article taken from the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 website The Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 recently published a review of the Olympic Delivery Authority's procurement policies. The review covered the ODA's procurement specification, management and contract administration, focussing on how these processes were being used to deliver the ODA's sustainability objectives.
The commission found that the processes used by the ODA appear to have been largely successful in ensuring that the relevant sustainability issues from the design briefs and the ODA Sustainable Development Strategy are being brought forward into Invitations To Tender (ITT) and subsequent contracts. However, the commission has significant concerns over the incorporation of the BREEAM standards into contracts and also made recommendations that the ODA mitigate the risks of sustainability standards not being achieved through specific standards not being specified in contracts and by having a system to manage this through their supply chain.
The ODA has been successful in its approach to forward commitment through working with industry in order to ensure that their requirements can be delivered. The commission believes that this good practice in giving early signals to the marketplace, to enable it to be ready to supply the requirements when they are needed, should be taken up throughout the London 2012 programme.
The commission also recommends that, as part of the longer term evolution of CompeteFor, it is utilised to encourage and promote additional environmental criteria to drive improvements in businesses registering with it.
To read the report in full please download Procuring a legacy