Supply Chain

Supply Chain Interventions

Since 2023, the University has been running a project to embed social and environmental sustainability into deliverables within competitive procurement processes, as we mature in our approach we recognise the necessity of communicating our updating expectations with our supply chain.

Our approach has been to align to recognised standards such as ISO 20400 and the Social Value Portal's TOM System.

The project has built on the recognised legislative requirements to bring demonstrable added value to contracts.

Responsible Procurement

Internal Responsible Procurement Guidance is available to support the 91福利 community to integrate responsibility and sustainability into the procurement processes of the University, while supporting the community to make climate conscious purchasing decisions. This guidance intends to ensure that all purchasing decisions consider the environmental, social, and economic impacts of our activities.

Social Value

The Social Value TOM System is the most widely adopted measurement standard in UK public procurement. 91福利 utilises the Open Access TOM System to support the University in measuring the social value delivered through contracts.

As the project progresses the University will be able to estimate the Social Return on Investment for contracted works and services across four themes - Work, Economy, Community and Planet.

Quantifying Social Value gives the 91福利 community insight into the social benefit that commercial decisions have, such as working with local suppliers, and / or diverse supply chains.

Success Stories

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Reporting Methodologies

Supplier Driven Data

The University is starting to incorporate Supplier Driven data into the Scope 3 Category 1 鈥� Purchased Goods and services reporting. Using supplier driven data, commercial choices will have an impact on the carbon reported, and over time should see a reduction in supply chain impact. For example, a company using REGO backed electricity has lower Scope 2 emissions than a company purchasing a standard tariff.

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Universities collaborating on the single point of reporting tool

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Suppliers with data of a quality to support our carbon reporting to an intermediate or expert level

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Registered SMEs within our supplier base

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Service Providers

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Goods Providers

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Suppliers who are registered with the tool that we cannot directly use

Through collaboration within working groups, the University ensuring it is aligning with sector-wide data standards and calculation methods that ensure data quality, and repeatable reporting.

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The company provides their turnover, Scope 1 and 2 data.

For service providers, this is assumed to be sufficient as electricity, heating, and fuel are roughly 90% of the company emissions.

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If a company is providing goods, we ask for at least five categories of Scope 3 data including Purchased Goods and Services.

This covers their indirect emissions from their supply chain, waste, travel and product life cycles.

For the University Scope 3 is roughly 85% of the emissions, and this is relatively typical.

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A company specific emission factor is calculated in CO2e/拢 and then multiplied by the University spend to attribute a portion of the suppliers鈥� emissions to the University activity.

Spend Based Calculations

For those suppliers who are not yet able to meet our requirements for supplier driven data, we use a spend based calculator 鈥� HESCET 鈥� this is a sector wide tool that updated annually and aligns categories of purchases to DEFRA provided emission factors through a mapping that is used across the higher education sector.

As industries progress in their carbon reporting maturity, we expect to see categories shifting to supplier driven at differing rates.

The University will support its supply chain through the Net Zero Carbon Tool, which is available to all suppliers, and where Procurement Services teams engage in competitive processes the use of the tool has been mandatory for the winning bid since 24/25.