Our objectives
- By 2025, our top 25 suppliers will have completed the sustainability scan. The results will be used to implement sustainable measures.
- By 2025, a procurement strategy for each purchasing category will be established with the category owner, taking into account socially responsible procurement.
- To promote diversity and inclusion, tenders will be subject to a requirement that at least 5% of the workforce be made up of people with a disadvantage on the job market (SROI).
Where we are now
Sustainability is one of the main pillars of all our tendering and procurement projects. In line with our ‘Inkopen met Impact’ policy (purchasing with impact), we identify key sustainability issues at an early stage and work with suppliers to improve sustainability over the long term.
Since February 2023, all orders must be placed using the Bass ordering system, which makes it easier for us to encourage purchasers to order from preferred sustainable suppliers. This system also gives us an insight into all of the University’s purchases: transparency is the first step towards purchasing with impact.
In collaboration with Planet+Partners, the Purchasing Department has developed a sustainability scan: the Optimal Scan. The questions in this scan help us to determine the extent to which our suppliers are organised in a sustainable way. It provides an opportunity to monitor developments in the area of sustainability and to grow together. Many of our suppliers have already completed this scan.
