Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 39
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We recommend that within its Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Government consider stipulating the use...
Recommendation
We recommend that within its Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Government consider stipulating the use of sustainable materials in public sector energy efficiency contracts as a first incentive to drive the UK’s domestic supply chain of these materials. (Paragraph 159) 62 Energy Efficiency of Existing Homes
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
Government is in the process of reforming public procurement policy to reflect our values and respond to national priorities. On 15 December 2020 the Cabinet Office published a Green Paper consultation on Transforming Public Procurement ahead of bringing forward primary legislation in the summer. The Green Paper includes a number of proposals to enable procurement to better deliver government policy and maximise societal benefits, like amending the basis on which contracts are awarded from most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) to most advantageous tender (MAT) and retaining the requirement for criteria to be linked to the “subject matter of the contract” but allowing specific exceptions set by government The government also intends to publish a National Procurement Policy Statement, setting out national priorities of strategic importance in public procurement, including tackling climate change. The government intends to legislate to require all contracting authorities to have regard to the statement in their procurement and commercial activities. The government also published the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy on March 21st this year, which recognizes the role that public procurement can play in creating demand for green products, and set out actions that the government will take to help support the development of a market for low carbon industrial products, centered on data transparency, product standards, and product labelling.