The DEEP tools have been designed to help public authorities:

• Develop an energy efficient procurement policy, and implement it across the organisation;
• Establish Life-Cycle Costing and train procurement staff in its application;
• Assess current performance and identify some basic and low-cost energy efficiency measures.

For an in-depth introduction to the Toolkit, please download the Toolkit leaflet here [pdf-file]

The DEEP Toolkit contains the following tools:

• The Energy Efficient Procurement Policy Guide - A guide to developing and implementing an energy efficiency policy
  • Policy Guide [pdf-file]
    
  • Organisational Assessment Matrix [pdf-file]
    
• The Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool (LCCA Tool) - Giving simple advice on how to use the life-cycle cost approach in procurement
  • LCCA Tool ]xls]
  • User introduction [ppt]
  • Guide to Life-cycle costing for senior staff [ppt]
• Self-assessment of energy consumption (SASEATO) - an excel tool, helping public authorities to identify areas for reducing energy consumption
  • SASTEATO Self-assessment tool [xls]
• Purchasing criteria for IT Equipment [pdf-file], green electricity [pdf-file], and building construction/renovation [pdf-file]

Energy efficient procurement applies to the design, construction and management of buildings, the procurement of energy using equipment, such as heating systems, vehicles and electrical equipment, and also to the direct purchase of energy, e.g. electricity.  It includes practices such as life-cycle costing, the setting of minimum energy efficiency standards, use of energy efficient criteria in the tendering process, and measures to promote energy efficiency across organisations.

Energy efficient procurement offers public authorities, and their communities, social, economic and environmental benefits:

• By using energy more efficiently, public authorities will reduce unnecessary costs, and save money.  As the market price of energy increases, so will the financial benefits of energy efficiency.
• Energy efficient goods, such as light bulbs, have a longer lifetime and are of higher quality than their cheaper alternatives.  Purchasing them will reduce valuable time and effort involved in frequently replacing equipment.
• Reducing their CO2 emissions as a result of energy efficient procurement will help public authorities minimise their contribution to climate change.
• Energy efficient procurement requires transparent and rational decision-making which contributes to good governance.

For more information on the DEEP project, please visit the project website at www.iclei-europe.org/deep/, or contact procurement@iclei.org