J.P-15_Climate Change Risk Management Plan Criteria.pdf

Alliant 3 Unrestricted GWAC Solicitation No.

J.P-15 Climate Change Risk Management Plan Criteria

GSA is seeking to better understand climate related risks to its supply chain and the Alliant 3

Industry Partner’s ability to manage those risks. All other-than-small business concern Industry

Partner(s) shall prepare a post-award Climate Change Risk Management Plan that identifies climate-related risks that could negatively impact performance of any resultant task order(s). At a minimum, the Climate Change Risk Management Plan must address the following:

Climate Change Risk Management Plan Criteria

• What is your process for identifying, assessing, and responding to climate-related risks for successful performance or delivery (e.g., migration of smoke from wildfires, increases in precipitation-driven flooding, extreme heat events, and inundation due to sea level rise and storm surge)?

• What inherent climate-related risks have you identified that may have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business? Provide details of risks identified with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business.

• What is your business continuity plan?

o Describe your disaster contingency, continuity plans and response protocols for potential event-driven changes (e.g., hurricane, earthquake, flooding, wildfire and etc.) and chronic risks due to longer-term shifts in climate patterns (e.g., changes in precipitation, increased average temperature, and sea level rise).

o describe which assets, products, and services would most significantly disrupt operations if they experienced short term acute impacts (i.e. degraded service, loss of service, equipment failure, loss of asset or other unacceptable outcomes).

o describe which assets, products, and services would most significantly disrupt operations if they experienced gradual long-term cumulative impacts (degraded service, loss of service, equipment failure, loss of asset or other unacceptable outcomes).

Within 12 months after the Notice to Proceed, the Industry Partner must submit to the CO and

COR a Climate Change Risk Management Plan consisting of an overview of actions taken, or opportunities identified, to adapt to the climate-related risks that may have a substantive financial or strategic impact, as identified in the Climate Change Risk Management Plan.

The Industry Partner will be evaluated in CPARS or another contract performance assessment report on its compliance to timely submission of the Climate Change Risk Management Plan and

Climate Change Risk Management Plan Follow-up Report.

J.P-15 Climate Change Risk Management Plan Criteria

G.25 Environmental Objectives and Requirements

In support of Executive Order 13834, Efficient Federal Operations, and other applicable statutes, regulations and Executive Orders, and in recognition that environmental damage and related supply chain risks, including from energy market volatility, greenhouse gas pollution, and electronic equipment manufacturing and disposal, have quantifiable costs and negative impacts on the economy and federal agency operations, it is the Government’s intent to understand and reduce as far as practicable the energy and environmental impacts of IT services provided under this contract. Contractor shall provide evidence of ongoing measurement and reduction of the energy and environmental impacts of services provided, including but not limited to, use of energy and nonrenewable resources and emissions of carbon pollution, via annual Sustainable

Practices and Impact Disclosures.

The Sustainable Practices and Impact Disclosures shall be submitted online using any of the systems listed below. These online reporting portals provide efficient means for contractors to share standardized Disclosures with the delegated GWAC Ordering Contracting Officers.

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) www.cdp.net

Posting the disclosure, or a link to the disclosure, on the Contractor’s GWAC web site.

Not all individual content specified in the CDP reporting system is required by GSA. Detailed content required by GSA is specified under Milestone Deliverables below. Greenhouse gas inventories required under the Milestone Deliverables shall be prepared in accordance with the

World Resources Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development Greenhouse

Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, ISO 14064 standard, or similar

GHG reporting standard.

Within 12 months of the Master Contract Notice to Proceed, the contractor shall submit online its corporate-wide Sustainable Practices and Impact Disclosures, and provide notification to the

GWAC Program at Alliant3@gsa.gov as to when the disclosure was submitted and the online reporting option used. Thereafter the Contractor shall update the Disclosure annually until the expiration of the Master Contract.

The value of the above disclosures is the methodical identification, quantification and management of use of energy and nonrenewable resources, emissions of pollutants, and opportunities to save money by improving contractor’s energy efficiency and other aspects of corporate operations. GSA will review the Disclosures, and work with the Contractors to assist them in their identification of environmental and sustainability measures that best address GSA’s environmental and climate change initiative goals.

The Contractor shall meet the following milestones with regard to contents of the annual

Sustainable Practices, Impact Disclosures and Climate Risk Assessment Plan:

1. Within 12 months after the Notice to Proceed - initially filed Disclosures and all future

Disclosures must be publicly available online via Contractor or third-party Web site http://www.cdp.net/ file:///C:/Users/JeffryRSparksworthy/Documents/GSA%20Documents/Alliant%202/Alliant%202%20Documents/Master%20Contract%20-%20Finals/Alliant2@gsa.gov file:///C:/Users/JeffryRSparksworthy/Documents/GSA%20Documents/Alliant%202/Alliant%202%20Documents/Master%20Contract%20-%20Finals/Alliant2@gsa.gov

J.P-15 Climate Change Risk Management Plan Criteria

2. Within 12 months after initially filed Disclosures - Disclosures must include a complete Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory

3. Within 24 months after initially filed Disclosures - Disclosures must include a GHG reduction target(s) (either for reduction of absolute annual quantity of greenhouse gas emissions, and/or for reduction of “carbon intensity” i.e., reduction of carbon footprint per activity measure such as sales, number of employees, square feet of facilities, etc.)

4. Within 36 months after initially filed Disclosures - Disclosures must report on progress towards meeting the GHG reduction target(s), and as specified in Section F.7.

GHG inventories and targets referenced above must include Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions.

Inclusion of Scope 3 emissions categories is encouraged but not required. The Government will accept a disclosure from the Contractor's parent company in satisfaction of Milestone 1. For

Milestones 2 and beyond, GSA will continue to accept a disclosure from the Contractor's parent company as long as the parent company's GHG emissions inventory boundaries (financial and geographic) include activities the Contractor performs under the GSA GWAC Task Orders. The

Contractor shall be evaluated in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System

(CPARS) or another contract performance assessment report on its compliance to timely submission of the Sustainable Practices and Impact Disclosures and milestone deliverables.