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County delays vote on environmentally preferred purchasing policy after members request more analysis
Summary
Lake County officials discussed an environmentally preferred purchasing policy that would give a competitive preference to vendors with recognized ecolabels and then postponed the measure to September for additional analysis.
Lake County officials on July 31 discussed a proposed environmentally preferred purchasing policy that would direct county procurement to favor qualified green vendors in competitive purchases when their bids are within 5% of the lowest responsible bidder. After extensive committee debate and public and staff input, members voted to postpone consideration until the September Financial and Administrative Committee cycle to allow further analysis and clarifications.
What the policy would do County sustainability staff described a program that would apply to public procurements and include training, purchasing guides and an ecolabel certification form vendors could use to show…
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