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6.A. - Page 125 of 251 <br />and preparing bid specifications, including the costs over the life of the product, <br />including maintenance, operating, insurance, disposal, recycling, <br />replacement, potential liability costs, and expected lifetime. <br />8.3 Bid Evaluation Preferences <br />8.3.1 Require successful bidders to certify in writing that the environmental attributes <br />claimed in competitive bids are accurate. In compliance with State law, <br />vendors shall be required to specify the minimum or actual percentage of <br />recovered and post -consumer material in their products, even when such <br />percentages are zero. <br />8.3.2 Upon request, buyers preparing the specifications for competitive bids must <br />be able to provide justification for product choices that do not meet the <br />environmentally preferable purchasing criteria in this policy. <br />9.0 PROGRAM EVALUATION <br />The Citywide interdepartmental team will provide a narrative report periodically to the <br />Department Heads on the implementation of this policy. <br />9.1 Metrics and Benchmarking <br />9.1.1 The Citywide interdepartmental team will develop and implement a monitoring <br />and tracking system as a tool to confirm compliance with this policy. <br />9.1.2 Departments will require vendors to supply data for performance tracking and <br />evaluation of the City's environmentally responsible purchasing program upon <br />request. <br />9.1.3 Departments will compile records for producing an annual summary of the <br />City's environmentally responsible/sustainable purchasing actions and to <br />evaluate the effectiveness in reducing the environmental impacts of City <br />procurement, as feasible and practicable. <br />9.1.4 As feasible, the narrative report will include types, quantities, and dollar <br />amounts of climate -friendly products and services purchased in the previous <br />year and dollar amounts of conventional products and services, will identify <br />and discuss instances where this policy is waived or its requirements found <br />impracticable, and will highlight barriers to procurement of climate -friendly <br />products and services. <br />9.2 Best Practices and Continual Improvement <br />9.2.1 As environmentally preferable products and best practices are continually <br />evolving, the Citywide interdepartmental team will stay abreast of the latest <br />and best practices to guide the City to be the most environmentally responsible <br />11of17 I 'age <br />430 <br />