Sustainability and Equity in Purchasing at SOU

SOU Sustainability Office has worked with staff, faculty and students across campus to update SOU’s Sustainable Purchasing Policy. SOU also recognizes the intersection between social equity and justice and the environment and this is reflected in the newly updated Sustainability and Equity in Purchasing Policy. To help understand how to follow the policy, an associated procedure has also been developed.

Money talks and the purchases that organisations and businesses make can have a far reaching impact on innovation, social equity, the resilience of a supply chain, jobs in a local economy, greenhouse gas emissions as well as the environmental impact. SOU has a purchasing policy that reflects its values of equity and sustainability and will use its purchasing power to support the local economy, drive innovation, promote social equity, and mitigate climate crisis impacts.

Sustainability and Equity in Purchasing Policy

Sustainability and Equity in Purchasing Procedure