Responsible procurement

Procurement

In 2019/20, 13% (£8.4 million) of our total non-manpower spend was with suppliers within a 50 mile radius of BU. In line with our Sustainable Procurement Policy, we continue to mandate a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) process to be completed for any purchases over £25000 to ensure environmental and social factors are considered as part of tender process. In 2020/21, we shall be investigating how to improve the LCA process and identify greater social and environmental value from this spend.

Re-use and redistribution

2019/20 was a year of large campus changes at BU, with the impending closure of Bournemouth House and Royal London House requiring the removal of all their furniture and equipment. The Estates team worked to ensure that as much of this was re-distributed by: • Hosting an open house furniture collection day in August 2019. Open to staff, charities and the local community, we redistributed over 150 items and raised around £230 for a local charity • Donating low quality furniture to Over 2 Hills to upcycle and give a second life • Using WarpIt to find new homes for unwanted furniture in the form of charities and organisations: 18.95 tonnes of furniture was donated, worth over £50,000

Paper use

Between August 2019 and February 2020, we printed 16,418 fewer pages than for the same period in 2018/19, with 26% less black and white pages and 40% fewer colour pages printed mainly due to staff responding to communications to reduce unnecessary printing. As a result, the amount of paper ordered in 2019/20 halved compared to the previous year, to just over 5,000 reams (where a ream is 500 sheets of paper). Only 400 reams were ordered after March 2020 reflecting the campus lockdown.