{"id":2403,"date":"2021-02-09T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:30:42","slug":"sustainable-procurement-duty-tools-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2021\/02\/09\/sustainable-procurement-duty-tools-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable procurement duty tools update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the launch of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2020\/06\/03\/new-platform-for-the-sustainable-procurement-duty-tools\/\">sustainable procurement duty tools<\/a> platform back in June, work has been ongoing to improve the platform in response to feedback, and produce further support for users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users can now amend the title of their prioritisation tool and sustainability test themselves<\/li>\n<li>The format of summary exports from the platform has been improved<\/li>\n<li>A number of short videos have been published on using Sustainability Test. The videos can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableprocurementtools.scot\/index.cfm\/user-guides-and-videos\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Revised supporting guidance on Waste and Efficient Resource Consumption has been published, the guidance is available <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableprocurementtools.scot\/index.cfm\/guidance\/waste\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming soon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Work is underway to develop a Sustainability Test library area within the platform, this will enable the sharing of good examples of completed Sustainability Tests.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Literacy eLearning is also being developed and will be available from the platform soon. We will keep you up-to-date on these through our usual channels.<\/p>\n<p>For further information or to provide feedback please contact us at: <a href=\"mailto:scottishprocurement@gov.scot\">scottishprocurement@gov.scot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to the tools and further support for users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,397],"tags":[111,224,291],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-procurement","category-sustainable-procurement-tools","tag-public-sector","tag-sustainable-procurement","tag-sustainable-procurement-duty-tools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sustainable procurement duty tools update - 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