This document consolidates responses to a request for information from Federal agencies about how they monitored their green purchasing programs.

This guidance reflects the best practices of multiple agencies engaged in monitoring their green purchasing programs.

Most organizations use a three-way check as the foundation of their purchasing programs.

The $4 million purchase follows an agreement between the carriers that includes joint purchasing programs.

But they found problems with some purchasing programs that reserve Federal contracts for companies owned by blacks or women.

Another instrument is the implementation of greener public purchasing programs.

Products that are well received in the market could then become part of FairPrices' normal purchasing program across its 95 stores.

Black-owned businesses have benefited from corporate purchasing programs that encourage minority suppliers to bid.

The second sentence added that the officials "found problems with some purchasing programs that reserve Federal contracts for companies owned by blacks or women."

A 'digital inclusion' portal will provide info about the purchasing programs and services described before.