This week we received some more feedback about the vendor surveys that were listed on the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's website. One of the procurement officials who wished to hold a meeting with Mr. Bruskotter and I, decided on a time this week to discuss some of her personal experiences with the survey. Upon calling, I drafted several questions concerning the type of feedback the survey received, the qualifying and evaluation criteria, and several others of that nature. Our discussion was beneficial as Shawn, the procurement official from Multnomah County, gave us insight into their advanced policies regarding sustainability. Unlike the City of Santa Monica, the procurement office in Multnomah is deeply invested in sustainability.
After the conversation, we then established our next plans of action. We would use some of the insight about her trials and tribulations of working with people who do not have a background in sustainability and how they encouraged their professional services to hold high expectations when considering a particular vendor. From this, we determined that we should meet internally with one our experts who has been assigned the project of integrating the Living Building Challenge into the City of Santa Monica. The Living Building Challenge integrates making all new building projects to live up to the expectations of different levels of LEED certifications.
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