Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred

Products List

History of the FCFPPL Created under Executive Order No. 07-126,

Section4 “ The Department of Management Services shall develop

the Florida Climate Friendly Preferred Products List.”

“…to identify specific products and vendors that have clear energy efficiency or other environmental benefit over competing products.”

In April of 2008, legislation was adopted by the Florida House (HB7135) and Senate (SB1544), mandating the development and maintenance of the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List

s. 286.29(1), F.S.

Florida Statute 286.29(1)

The Department of Management Services shall develop the "Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List." In maintaining that list, the department, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall continually assess products currently available for purchase under state term contracts to identify specific products and vendors that offer clear energy efficiency or other environmental benefits over competing products. When procuring products from state term contracts, state agencies shall first consult the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List and procure such products if the price is comparable.

Introduction Over 8,000 state term contract products from

56 vendors currently listed, including: Audio Visual Equipment Carpet IT Hardware Law Enforcement Equipment Furniture Rental Cars Paper

DMS, State Purchasing conducts quarterly updates of the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List

Green Labels & Standards List Florida Approved Green Label or Standard

Standard or Label

California Energy Commission (CEC) Appliance Efficiency Regulations Standard

California Environmentally Preferred Products Guide Standard

California State Agency Buy Recycled Program (SABRC) Label

Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Label

Energy Star Label

EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) Standard

EPA SmartWay and SmartWay Elite Label

EPA WaterSense Label

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Label

Green Seal Label

Greenguard Label

MDBC's Cradle to Cradle Silver Certification (or higher) Label

Minnesota Green Guardian EPP Guide Standard

NEMA Premium Label

RoHS Standard

SCS (Scientific Cert. Sys.) / NSF International Label

Terra Choice / Ecologo Label

US Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Standard

USDA Organic Label Label

During the development of the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) approved 19 labels/standards for use in Florida

All products must be certified by or comply with at least 1 of 19 green labels or standards

Finding the FCFPPL…Follow the link provided to view the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List

Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List The FCFPPL is an MS Excel spreadsheet that can be sorted by category, vendor,

STC number, manufacturer name, commodity code, etc.

Maintenance of the FCFPPL List and website are maintained by DMS,

State Purchasing Quarterly updates are conducted to ensure

that the list is as up-to-date as possible Purchasing Analysts work closely with

state term contract vendors to maintain and update their green products list

The Excel Catalog Template is the tool used to track changes to the vendor’s green products list

Updating the FCFPPL The Excel Catalog Template is used by the vendor to update their line-item

catalog in MyFloridaMarketPlace (MFMP) using the Aravo web-application If the vendor does not have a line-item catalog in MFMP, they may manually

submit their green products list to State Purchasing using the same template

Overview of the Maintenance ProcessDMS and MFMP will follow a quarterly process to manage future updates to the FCFPL.

Submit new / updates to Green

products

Submit catalog

changes via Aravo tool

Submit new / updated Green

products via Excel catalog

template

Provide quarterly Aravo report of all approved Green

products in MFMP catalogs

Combine approved Green product templates with Aravo

report to develop updated FCFPL

Post updated FCFPL on State Purchasing

website

STC Commodity

Vendors

MFMP Content

Management Team

DMS Purchasing

Analyst/Specialist

Send quarterly email with link to current FCFPL to commodity STC

vendors to request new /

updated Green products

DMS Portal Manager

Does vendor have

catalog in

MFMP?

Review and approve

submitted MFMP

catalogs / Green product

catalog templates

Yes

No

Forward approved

Green product catalog

templates to Green Team

Day 1 Day 59Day 40Day 30 Day 60Timing

Bureau A Green Team

(Team 7)

Green Team provides canned e-mail for Purchasing Analysts &

Specialists to forward to vendors

If you have questions about the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List, please contact the Green Team (Team 7)… Trey Collins, (Primary Contact) Purchasing Specialist –

(850) 488-7516 Donna Smith, Lead Purchasing Analyst – (850) 488-8855 Charles Day, Purchasing Analyst – (850) 410-2426 Ellen Potts, Commodity Sourcing Bureau Chief – (850)

488-2773