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Welcome purchasers!
EPEAT® is now the easiest way to specify affordable, high-performance, environmentally preferable electronics. As of January 2010, over 40 manufacturers have registered more than 1300 products in 40 countries worldwide. EPEAT is a requirement for all US  federal purchasers and is used by government, education, health care and enterprise purchasers worldwide in more than US $65 billion worth of procurements.

The specific resources at right, and the model specification language below should help get you started using EPEAT.

If you would like to talk with someone directly about the best way to incorporate EPEAT into the purchasing process, please e-mail us.
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Purchasing Partner Recognition When you use EPEAT, be sure to get the recognition you deserve by joining our Purchasing Partner program. To find outlets for EPEAT registered products, visit our Reseller Partner pages.

 

NOTE to purchasers on the internationalization of EPEAT®

EPEAT now permits product registration by country in 41 individual countries. Products are verified to meet all declared criteria on a country by country basis. This means purchasers need to ask for products registered in the geography where they will be purchased, to ensure they are accessing the product as declared in the registry.

Under current fee structure, manufacturers pay a single fee to register in all covered countries outside the US/Canada region, so purchasers should require such local registration to ensure accountability and verification oversight in their specific geography. When you establish EPEAT purchasing in any of the 41 covered countries, MAKE SURE you are requiring, and obtaining, products registered in the country where you are purchasing.

If you are purchasing in a country not yet on the registry, consider pursuing Country Addition to ensure your region will be covered in future. In the interim, you can ask suppliers’ about EPEAT registration elsewhere, but remain mindful that service criteria may not be met and that there will be no verification in your country until it becomes part of the covered geographies.

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Federal Government Purchasing Resources

The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) require that federal "agencies must ensure that they meet at least 95% of their annual acquisition requirement for electronic products with Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered electronic products, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such products."

Federal Purchasing Resources

The Federal Electronics Challenge

The Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) has prepared a number of resources for federal purchasers, including an EPEAT fact sheet that explains how EPEAT can help federal agencies meet their FEC obligations. The FEC is a voluntary partnership program that encourages federal facilities and agencies to:

  • Purchase greener electronic products.
  • Reduce impacts of electronic products during use.
  • Manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.

    The FEC website has many valuable electronics resources for federal purchasers.

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