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Sustainable procurement
In the past 12 months, we have taken great strides towards achieving
a more efficient and sustainable procurement environment.
Clear policies and guidelines are stipulated in the staff manual to
remind staff to conduct themselves with the highest level of integrity.
These guidelines are also regularly communicated to remind users
of the expectations.
We have taken more steps to minimise our impact on the
environment at the procurement level. For example, we discourage
the use of bottled water during meetings and consumer roadshows.
Disposable plastic and paper cups in meeting rooms have also been
replaced with biodegradable ones. User departments are given the
option to use FSC certified paper for their printing needs. We have
also automated the process for ordering namecards to cut down
on the use of paper forms.
We seek to work with quality supply chain partners and ensure that
our procurement practices are conducted in an open and transparent
manner. We award tenders fairly, on the basis of merit.
We ensure that the selection criteria of our suppliers comply where
applicable with government certification requirements, and with
Singtel's Code of Conduct.
We have finalised a questionnaire that seeks to evaluate and assess
our suppliers' sustainability practices and commitments on environmental
protection, employee health and safety, as well as their policies
on human rights and child and forced labour. This questionnaire
will be given to all key vendors by the second quarter of FY11/12
for their response. All of our vendors will also be required to attain
bizSAFE Enterprise certification by September 2011.
We will continue to seek out best procurement practices. |
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