17-Appendix 5 - GFPP Background Information.pdf
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- Travis County, Austin City, Texas
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This document is vendor guidance material for the Good Food Purchasing Program, which the Austin Independent School District Food Service has adopted as part of its procurement framework for fresh produce and a la carte beverages. The Center for Good Food Purchasing provides a metric-based framework designed to align institutional buying power with five core values: local economies, environmental sustainability, nutrition, animal welfare, and valued workforce. Austin ISD seeks to improve child nutrition through quality products, reduce food transportation distances, ensure labor law compliance across the supply chain, support environmentally responsible food production practices, and promote farmers and producers that provide healthy and humane conditions for animals. The district requires vendors to source, purchase, store, and deliver fresh fruits, vegetables, and beverages to multiple school locations on an ongoing basis while maintaining acceptable fill rates, customer service levels, and product quality. Prospective vendors must be established commercial distributors with physical, logistical, and financial resources and cannot operate as third-party logistics companies that subcontract the majority of required functions.
Vendors participating in the contract must familiarize themselves with the district's Good Food Purchasing goals and priorities across the five value categories and identify qualifying items within their current product offerings. The program utilizes an online Purchase Browser tool to help institutions and their contracted vendors identify food products and suppliers that meet program criteria. Qualifying products must carry third-party certifications in specific categories, including certifications related to environmental sustainability (such as USDA Organic, Marine Stewardship Council Certified, and Salmon Safe), animal welfare (including Certified Humane and Global Animal Partnership levels), and valued workforce standards (requiring union contracts, worker-owned cooperative status, or documented social responsibility policies). Vendors should ensure their product lines include local sourcing options within 250 miles, locally owned and operated suppliers, women and minority-owned businesses, antibiotic-free products, plant-based alternatives, and nutritionally superior options including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and products low in sodium and added sugars.
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Good Food Purchasing Program Vendor Resources
Welcome to the Good Food Purchasing Program!
The Center for Good Food Purchasing’s Good Food Purchasing Program provides a metric-based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core values:
Through the Program, the Center works with institutions to establish supply chain transparency from farm to fork, evaluate how current purchasing practices align with the Good Food Purchasing Standards, assist with goal setting, measure progress, and celebrate institutional successes in shifting towards a values-based purchasing model. To learn more about the Center for Good Food Purchasing and the institutions participating in the Good Food Purchasing
Program please visit our website.
Step 1: Get Oriented to the Program
As a good food vendor, you play a critical role in the Good Food Purchasing Program – from purchasing a diversity of items that reflect the five value framework to securing and sharing the data necessary to track progress in the program. We recommend that all vendors watch this short video overview of our program and data collection process. If you have questions about the Program or the process for participation, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@goodfoodpurchasing.org.
Step 2: Review Priority Items Within Your Current Offerings
As part of their Good Food Purchasing Action Plan, your client will be setting goals for their purchasing for each value category. To ensure successful implementation of the program, be sure to familiarize your team with their goals and priorities relative to the following item/supplier attributes which may help products score in the Program:
Local
Economies
Environmental
Sustainability Nutrition Animal
Welfare
Valued
Workforce
Environment
Sustainability
Animal Welfare Valued Workforce Nutrition Local Economies within 250 miles locally owned and operated women and minority owned businesses certified product* antibiotic free/no routine antibiotics no seafood rated as “Avoid” by Seafood
Watch plant-based certified product* union contract worker owned cooperative social responsibility policy certified product* plant-based alternatives alternatives for red and processed meat fruit, vegetables, whole grains low sodium low/no added sugar culturally appropriate meals https://goodfoodpurchasing.org/ https://youtu.be/MxBBhUUi0zs https://youtu.be/MxBBhUUi0zs mailto:info@goodfoodpurchasing.org
Good Food Purchasing Program Vendor Resources
Step 3: Use our Purchase Browser to Start Buying More Good Food
To help our enrolled institutions and their vendors more easily identify items and suppliers that qualify in our program, the Center for Good Food Purchasing has created an online Purchase Browser tool. Users can search a catalog of food products that have scored in the Program. Enrolled institutions and their contracted vendors are eligible to use the tool. For more information about the tool and how to use it – including our Frequently Asked
Questions. If you would like to gain access, please contact the institution enrolled in the Good Food Purchasing
Program with whom you have contracted and request access to the Center for Good Food Purchasing’s Purchase
Browser.
Step 4: Learn More About Good Food Certifications
Third party certifications are used as qualifying criteria in three out of the five value categories in the Good Food
Purchasing Program. Food products with the following third-party certifications qualify at various levels.
Qualifying Certifications & Supplier Databases
A Greener World Certified Grassfed
American Grassfed Association certified
American Humane Certified Pastured Raised
Animal Welfare Approved
ANSI/LEO-4000 Gold certified
ANSI/LEO-4000 Platinum certified
Environmental Sustainability Valued Workforce Animal Welfare
Has a Social Responsibility Policy*
LEVEL 1
Cage free
Step 1, 2
LEVEL 2
Pasture Raised
Free Range
Step 3
Pasture Raised
Step 4, 5, 5+ LEVEL 3
Has a Union Contract A Worker-Owned Cooperative https://app.box.com/s/7colijv9hsmtihz5k53zl3fptnzb445g https://app.box.com/s/7colijv9hsmtihz5k53zl3fptnzb445g https://agreenerworld.org/directory/ https://www.americangrassfed.org/aga-membership/producer-members/ http://humaneheartland.org/humane-certified-producers https://agreenerworld.org/certifications/animal-welfare-approved/ http://www.leonardoacademy.org/services/standards/agstandard.html http://www.leonardoacademy.org/services/standards/agstandard.html
Certified Humane
Certified Humane Free Range
Certified Humane Pasture Raised
Demeter Certified Biodynamic
Equitable Food Initiative certified
Fair for Life
Fairtrade USA
Fairtrade America
Food Alliance certified
Food Justice Certified by the Agricultural Justice Project
Global Animal Partnership Step 1, 2
Global Animal Partnership Step 3
Global Animal Partnership Step 4+
LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming)
Marine Stewardship Council certified
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch “Best” to “Avoid” Choice
PCO 100% Grassfed
Pesticide-free (grower-signed affidavit)1
Protected Harvest certified
Salmon Safe
Supplier has a Social Responsibility Policy.2
Sustainably Grown certified
Supplier is a workers-owned cooperative.
Suppler has a union contract with employees.
USDA Organic
1 Distributor providers grower-signed affidavit verifying that produce has been grown without the use of pesticides and all neonicotinoids and affidavit is accompanies by site visit from institution or community partner.
2,* Social responsibility policy must include (1) union or non-poverty wages, (2) respect for freedom of association and collective bargaining, (3) safe and healthy working conditions, (4) proactive policy on preventing sexual harassment and assault, (5) prohibition of child labor, as defined by ILO and at least one additional employment benefit such as: employee-paid health insurance, paid sick days, profit-sharing with all employees.
https://certifiedhumane.org/farm-profiles/ https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/shop-your-heart-brand-list?ms=MP_PMK_ShopWithYourHeart&initialms=MP_PMK_ShopWithYourHeart&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmIuDBhDXARIsAFITC_4j83rHVgxDg62OCif6dP4vHFAa0rp76TFDr0jmx4XGJGmrvRjTJlkaAk9oEALw_wcB https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/shop-your-heart-brand-list?ms=MP_PMK_ShopWithYourHeart&initialms=MP_PMK_ShopWithYourHeart&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmIuDBhDXARIsAFITC_4j83rHVgxDg62OCif6dP4vHFAa0rp76TFDr0jmx4XGJGmrvRjTJlkaAk9oEALw_wcB http://www.biodynamicfood.org/ https://equitablefood.org/efi-certified-farms/ https://www.fairforlife.org/pmws/indexDOM.php?client_id=fairforlife&page_id=certprod&lang_iso639=en https://www.fairtradecertified.org/products?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmIuDBhDXARIsAFITC_61o4D-Xw39dB3oB-ZI08IsYtVR0afu_yK6MAHwl2hhy4zRAuga1qkaAnwKEALw_wcB https://www.fairtradeamerica.org/shop-fairtrade/fairtrade-products/ http://foodalliance.org/info-commercial-food-buyers/ https://www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/en/learn-more/ https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/certified-farms-state https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/certified-farms-state https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/certified-farms-state https://leafuk.org/supplying/leaf-marque https://www.msc.org/en-us/standards-and-certification/the-msc-standards https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations https://paorganic.org/ https://gfpp.box.com/s/x83dombxvhpykvttbzod0f8brnkqp4ft https://www.protectedharvest.org/certification-labels/ https://salmonsafe.org/buy-salmon-safe/ https://www.scsglobalservices.com/services/sustainably-grown-certification https://www.usworker.coop/member-directory/ https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.html https://organic.ams.usda.gov/integrity/
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