Overview
This section establishes a transparency requirement for significant federal contractors to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction targets to help the government track the environmental impact of its procurement activities.
Key Rules
- Applicability Threshold: Requirements apply to offerors registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) who received $7.5 million or more in total Federal contract awards during the previous Federal fiscal year.
- Disclosure Representation: Affected offerors must represent whether they currently make public disclosures of their direct and indirect GHG emissions.
- Goal Representation: Offerors must represent whether they have established and publicly disclosed a quantitative goal for reducing their GHG emissions.
- Website Provision: If an offeror answers affirmatively to the disclosure or goal representations, they must provide the specific website URL where the information is publicly available.
Practical Implications
- Large contractors must ensure their SAM.gov profiles are accurately updated to reflect their environmental reporting status, as these representations are integrated into the solicitation process.
- While this policy mandates disclosure rather than specific emission levels, it subjects a contractor’s sustainability commitments to public and governmental scrutiny during the proposal phase.