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Smarter Solutions for a Better Environment

GSA offers a variety of environmental products and services to its federal customers to assist them in their efforts to comply with procurement responsibilities outlined in federal environmental laws and regulations. 

 These products and services are categorized as follow:

  • Comprehensive Procurement Guideline Products and Other Recycled Products;
  • Energy Star® Products and Other Energy Efficient Products;
  • Safer Paints, Cleaning, and Other Chemical Products; Environmental Services; and Energy Services.  

GSA has begun to introduce biobased products to its offerings and will add a separate product category to this web site when more products become available. 

GSA's goal is to become the preferred source for environmental products and services in the federal government.  To this end, GSA continually updates contracts to ensure that their supply vendors offer products that meet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) purchasing requirements, when appropriate.  Supply vendors are required to highlight products that contain environmental attributes, such as recycled materials, in their individual price lists and catalogs.

GSA has made it easier for federal buyers to locate environmental products and services.  GSA publishes its very popular Environmental Products and Services Guide (EPSG) annually.  The EPSG continues to be designed mainly for electronic dissemination, thereby saving a considerable amount of paper and money.  Contact the GSA Centralized Mailing List Service (CMLS) to order a hard copy.

Environmental products can be viewed and purchased from the GSAAdvantage!® and GSA Global Supply on-line purchasing systems. To narrow a product search to a designated environmental attribute, customers are strongly encouraged to use the ‘Advanced Search’ feature in both systems.

GSA also publishes an annual environmental edition of Marketips—a marketing publication directed to users of the GSA supply system—that highlights green products and services.  

     
Visitors can learn more about how GSA, and other federal organizations, are exemplifying environmental stewardship via this web site. Vendors who are interested in selling products and services to the federal government should contact the Multiple Awards Schedule (MAS) Help Desk to obtain ‘how to’ information. 

Think Green.  Buy Green Products from GSA.

 

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Last Modified 4/6/2004