As a part of TCS’s ongoing commitment to improve the environment this policy seeks to reduce the environment impacts of TCS operations and promote sustainable development by integration environment performance, considerations in the procurement process.

TCS is committed for integration of environment performance considerations into the procurement process including planning, acquisition, use and disposal. TCS is committed to consider the environmental aspects, potential impacts & cost, associated with the life cycle assessment of goods and services being acquired.

This calls for conscious, efforts across TCS in following areas:

1. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: - TCS is committed to reduce resources consumption and minimize waste being considering life cycle costs of products. Implement the hierarchy of preference to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle resources throughout procurement activity.
2. Buy Recycled: - TCS is committed to buy recycled/part recycled products to optimize consumption and stimulate demand for recycled products, promoting the collection and reprocessing of waste and work towards zero discharge to the landfill.
3. Green the Supply chain: - Maximize benefits by encouraging TCS supplier/vendors to adopt the TCS environment practices. Endeavour to undertake procurement activities with suppliers who share TCS values. TCS will actively promote green procurement throughout its supply chain and ensure selection which has minimum environmental impact. 

Green Procurement

The Green Procurement or environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) is the practice of procuring products and services that are less harmful to the environment (land, air and water) and all species including humans that depend on environment for survival. Green Products are those that are made with less harmful materials or which are produced or which upon usage/consumption would have a minimal impact to the environment. Green Procurement policy aims to implement the TCS environment policy in the following area of Procurement. 

1. TCS shall encourage and prefer Eco-friendly products which are more power efficient.
2. TCS shall prefer to purchase from a source which is less polluting or uses Clean Technology
3. TCS shall encourage and prefer vendors who use recycled packaging material.  The possibilities of further reuse and or recycling shall be explored with the user or the administration department.
4. For Software products; as far as possible and to the extent feasible, the preferred mode of delivery shall be through the electronic method (download). A Server is proposed to be deployed which would host the most commonly required software.  Instead of burning the CD-Media, secured access would be made available to the respective project team to down load the product from this common server.
5. IPD shall make efforts to recycle material from old sites to practically possible extent.

Focus Areas

• Promoting procurement from Energy Star Partners
• Procurement of low-energy consumption desktop configuration
• Procurement of laser printers with GREEN functionality
• Procurement of servers with low voltage CPUs and low wattage storages
• Server racks with efficient cooling system
• Eco-friendly Procurement considerations for Infrastructure and Development.
• Eco-friendly Procurement considerations for Consumables.