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Are solution providers and service providers chosen according to their capability to meet Sustainable IT specifications ?

Recommendation 

economic process

C People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

**

Priority

High

Récurrence

Periodic

Tests

Are supplier's Sustainable IT indicators taken into account when selecting service providers?

Precisions

The specifications highlight needs for outsourced services or relationships with service providers. In the selection criteria for suppliers of external services or products, the Sustainable IT aspects must be taken into account in the same way as if the service or product were supported internally. The specifications must set out, in addition to technical, budgetary and security standards considerations, the Sustainable IST principles that the supplier must fulfill.

Use Case

Procurement

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Number w/ sust. IT / Bought items

Life cycle

Acquisition

9 other criteria related to the recommendation: Define the production's environment in which the project will be built and deployed congruently with Sustainable IT principles

Advice

economic process

Are the physical travel aspects calculated while selecting service providers, technical solutions and the organization of internal actors involved in the project ?

Advice

economic process

Do all providers' stakeholders have the same social benefits and working conditions ?

Recommendation

Deployment

Are the workstations subject to lifecycle management ?

Recommendation

Technology

Has a common space been made available to the project for sharing resources ?

Recommendation

Deployment

Do the resources / components available for the project have information regarding Sustainable IT compliance ?

Recommendation

Evolutions

In the technical resources of the project, are management's reliance taken into account, thus limiting the obesity of the technical solutions employed ?

Advice

sustainability

In the design choices (functional and technical), does the creation, update or end of life of one digital service domain have a reduced impact on other digital service domains ?

Advice

project objectives

Are the implementation of new services due to regulatory constraints (health, banking, etc.) necessary and, if necessary, do they rely on an available service base ?

Recommendation

Production

What are the defined KPIs ?