Tender Victory has completed the journey to achieving the Green Accord!
Following on from our blog post in October 2023, outlining our journey to obtain environmental accreditation, we are delighted to confirm that we were awarded the Silver level of Green Accord, in October 2024!
This took a little longer than we had planned, mainly due to pressures of work and being able to allocate internal resource to complete the self assessment application process.
As noted in our original post, we found the self assessment portal used by the Green Accord straight forward to navigate. For each self assessment criteria, there were useful and relevant guidance resources, to help us understand how best to evidence our green practices.
To enable us to complete this efficiently, we created an offline record of the questions and compiled the evidence required against this. This approach enabled us to collaborate within the team, to ensure the evidence was as current and relevant as possible. Once the evidence was fully prepped and uploaded, we were ready to submit.
It took just a couple of weeks to hear back from the Green Accord evaluation team, who confirmed we were awarded their Silver level of accreditation (there are Gold, Silver and Bronze levels available).
If you’re looking for a straightforward way to demonstrate your sustainable practices, we would recommend the Green Accord as an attainable scheme, which provides you with an independently verified accreditation that you can use as evidence in tenders and business marketing.
Our findings from completing the accreditation include:
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It has enabled us to discover and add more good practice approaches to our existing good practices!
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We have developed documented policies that support these new and existing good practices!
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Some of the evidence gathering was a little challenging, as we occupy serviced offices, however the scheme was understanding of this and provided guidance when we queried this aspect.
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The evidence gathering, whilst time consuming, was fairly straight forward – especially with the help of the useful resources in each Green Accord question.
We wish you luck with your applications and also hope that this accreditation helps you to better demonstrate your environmental accreditation in tenders!
If you’d like to chat through tenders and sustainability criteria, please do not hesitate to contact us!