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Description

Consip’s mission is to make the use of public resources more efficient and transparent, by providing
tools and support to public administrations which enable them to carry out procurement procedures
which foster competitive participation from enterprises. They launched a green public procurement for
the Click & Save service.

The service covers external management of printing and copying activities in a centralised way. It covers
the installation of certain office equipment, supplies of materials (except paper), and provides services
such as support and maintenance, management, and monitoring and cost rationalisation.

The cost of the service is calculated as the cost of the printed/copied page or “click”, in which the total
number of clicks are defined as the number of users working at pre-defined levels of productivity. A
threshold of 3,000 clicks per user (the European average is around 10,000 pages/clicks per year) was
allocated. The level of productivity and the total number of users are assessed by a third party. The
framework also included an optional service to manage leased office equipment (printers, photocopiers
and fax) that is property of the public administration.

Major achievements

- The new print and copy management services are expected to save approximately 6,887,979 kWh
per year and 34,439,895 kWh during the lifetime of the service. This translates to CO2 savings of 4,417
tonnes of CO2 equivalents per year and 22,085 tonnes of CO2 equivalents during the lifetime.

- The Click & Save mechanism helps to reduce energy consumption and paper consumption due to the
control of the printed output.

- Moving away from single user machines creates printing areas which emit less ozone, dust and noise.
- The Green Printing Policy allows continuous monitoring of the environmental impacts and resource
consumption.