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Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
Refrigerant Procurement Guidance and Templates
Request for Advisors:
The Refrigerants Procurement Climate Collaborative is a multi-stakeholder team convened by the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC). Through deep collaboration, partnering organizations have worked together over the past year to create new resources to equip leaders with tools to reduce the climate impacts of refrigerants through responsible procurement and life cycle management. Phase 1 of this work has culminated in the development of the following new resources.The team is now seeking review & testing by outside organizations looking to implement best practices in sustainable refrigerant management and procurement.
We’re inviting YOU, our strategic advisors, to review these draft documents and share feedback on clarity, usability, and relevance. We are seeking feedback from individuals directly involved in the purchasing or specification of HVAC systems and refrigerants such as procurement staff, landlord coordinators, or designers dealing directly with distributors and manufacturers. Your input will help us ensure these materials are clear, actionable, and aligned with real-world procurement processes in the final version which will be published and publicly available in July 2025.
Please review and submit comments to the questions below by Wednesday, July 2nd.
For completing the review and submitting your survey responses, you will be entered to win a $100 Amazon gift card.
Documents for Review:
1. Climate Friendly Refrigerant Management and Procurement Guidance
2. Climate Friendly Refrigerant Policy & Procurement Specifications Template
3. Refrigerant Inventory Tracking Workbook
Submit Your Feedback Here!
Fill this Form to Help Shape these Documents
- Name *Company *Email *Role *Select an option1. CLIMATE FRIENDLY REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT AND PROCUREMENT GUIDANCEPlease rate the overall document and then each subsection using a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most helpful and clear and 1 being the least helpful and clear in assisting you with the selection of more climate-friendly refrigerant-based products and services.Select an optionGetting StartedSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Strategy 1: Create a Refrigerant Management Plan and Purchasing PoliciesSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Strategy 2: Buy Energy Efficient, Low-GWP EquipmentSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Strategy 3: Drive the MarketSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Strategy 4: Insist on Proper Installation, Maintenance, & Use of Reclaimed RefrigerantSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Strategy 5: Require Proper Refrigerant Disposal and Materials RecyclingSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Larger EquipmentSelect an optionAdditional Comments:Tools, Resources, Certifications, & Products ListsSelect an optionAdditional Comments:2. CLIMATE FRIENDLY REFRIGERANT POLICY AND PROCUREMENT SPECIFICATIONSPlease rate the resource using a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most helpful and clear and 1 being the least helpful and clear in assisting you with the selection and procurement of more climate-friendly refrigerant-based products and services.Select an optionAdditional Comments:How easy or difficult would it be to incorporate language from this document into a policy inside of your organization? Assume you had support to do so from your management team.Select an optionAre there specific tools, templates, or steps that would ease adoption and use?How easy or difficult would it be to incorporate language from this document into a mandatory and/or optional specification requirement that would be included in your procurement process?Examples: Request for Proposal, SOW, PO, etc.? Assume you had support to do so from your management team.Select an optionAre there specific tools, templates, or steps that would ease adoption and use?3. REFRIGERANT INVENTORY TRACKING WORKBOOKPlease rank the resource using a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most helpful and clear and 1 being the least helpful and clear in assisting you with inventorying and planning for the transition to more climate-friendly refrigerant-based products and services.Select an optionGENERAL QUESTIONSDid the resources help you feel more confident identifying HVAC options that minimize refrigerant emissions across the system’s lifecycle?Select an optionIf yes, what was the most useful information? If no, what additional information and/or support might you need?What is the biggest challenge you foresee in using these resources in order to shift to more climate-friendly refrigerant-based products and services?If you selected “The resources do not provide everything I need”, please list what those additional needs are.What level of internal approval or adjustment would you need to implement the suggestions in these documents?Select an optionIf Other, please specify.Do you have any other comments or feedback to make this an even better set of resources?
The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) is a global community of purchasers, suppliers, advocates, and experts committed to driving positive impact through the power of procurement.