• Total Cost of Ownership Tool

    As part of the HE purchasing consortia’s national printer agreement, Duncan Allison from the University of Bolton developed a Total Cost of Ownership Tool. This tool will help you identify the individual costs relating to the procurement of printer equipment. These can be either one-off or recurring costs. One-off costs are sunk once the acquisition is made whereas recurring costs are time dependent and continue to be incurred throughout the life of the product or service. Furthermore, recurring costs can increase with time for example through increased maintenance costs as equipment ages.
    All modes of energy use including sleep and standby are included in this tool, in line with the End Use Energy Services Directive.
    Key benefits to Total Cost of Ownership:
    1. Evaluation of competing options in purchasing;
    2. Improved awareness of total costs;
    3. More accurate forecasting of cost profiles; and
    Performance trade-off against cost

  • EAUC Whole Life Costing Toolkit – from Islington Council

    Find presentations and tools for Whole Life Costing by Islington Council on this page.

  • Procureweb Guidance

    Find out more information and get more help with whole life costing on procurewebs help pages.

  • Quantifying the Energy & Carbon Effects of Water Saving

    A summary report from the Environment Agency.

  • Forum For The Future – whole life costing and CO2 Tool

    Forum for the Future and Fife Council have developed a tool to enable procurement professionals to understand the total cost of a product from its purchase to its end of life.

  • SPP Tool – Lifecycle Cost and CO2 Emissions

    On this page you will find guidance for using the SPP whole life costing tool as well as the tool itself.

  • Defra Embedded Carbon Emissions Indicator

    You can read more about the development of the Defra emedded carbon emissions indicator here.

  • Defra Greenhouse Gas Conversion Factors

    You can find the Defra and DECC update to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Conversion Factors for Company Reporting here.

  • PAS 2050 Specification and Guidance

    Now revised from its 2008 edition, PAS 2050:2011 is a publicly available specification providing a method for assessing the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of goods and services.

  • Whole Life Costing & Cost Management

    Achieving Excellence in Construction Procurement Guide

  • Carbon Trust – Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)

    The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is a mandatory carbon emissions reporting and pricing scheme to cover all organisations using more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity. This page has more information on the scheme from the Carbon Trust.

  • DECC – Guidance on Carbon Neutrality

    Find out more information on carbon neutrality from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.