Purchasing and catering

The University's purchasing decisions have major socio-economic and environmental implications, both locally and globally. To minimise the their impact, and ensure a long-term approach is applied to all purchasing decisions, sustainability needs to be integrated into the all of our procurement processes. 

Sustainable procurement is one of the main engines through which we can achieve sustainable development by meeting the need for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on the 'whole life' basis of the product. This not only generates benefits for us but also for society and the economy while minimising damage to the environment.