Heavy Duty Construction Equipment

Green purchasing guidance for heavy duty construction equipment, including: excavators, backhoes, skid steers, dozers, loaders (including tractor shovel loaders), trucks, compactors, haulers, and graders. Note: does not include manlifts.

Required specifications

The following have been identified as green specifications relevant to the good/services as minimum mandatory requirements. These would not be part of a scored exhibit. If you are using the Washington state procurement manual templates, the following should be inserted in the relevant document that describes the product or performance requirements.

  • Products used in service that contain recycled content
  • Products used in service do not contain HFCs, mercury, PCBs

    Statutory Preference for Products Containing Hydrofluorocarbons. Pursuant to RCW 39.26.310, Enterprise Services is providing a bid preference in the amount of five percent (5%) per product line item tested to any bidder that provides products that [do not containing HFCs/contain a low amount of global warming potential refrigerants/are not designed to function only in conjunction with HFCs/are not manufactured using HFCs/are manufactured with a low amount of global warming potential refrigerants] . Bidders who seek to obtain the five percent (5%) bid preference in Exhibit C-Bid Price must identify the products [not containing HFCs/contain a low amount of global warming potential refrigerants/that are not designed to function only in conjunction with HFCs/are not manufactured using HFCs/are manufactured with a low amount of global warming potential refrigerants] as indicated in Exhibit C – Bid Price.
    Statutory Preference for Nonmercury Added Products. Pursuant to RCW 70A.230.060, Enterprise Services is providing a bid preference in the amount of five percent (5%) per product line item tested to any bidder that provides products that have the least amount of mercury added to the product necessary for the required performance for products identified in the Interstate Mercury Education and Reduction Clearinghouse Mercury-Added Products Database or where the product containing mercury is designed to reduce electricity consumption by at least 40%. Bidders who seek to obtain the five percent (5%) bid preference in Exhibit C-Bid Price must identify the amount of mercury added to the product or indicate the reduction in electricity consumption for identified products in Exhibit C – Bid Price.
    Statutory Preference for PCB-Free Products & Products-In-Packaging. Pursuant to RCW 39.26.280, Enterprise Services is providing a bid preference in the amount of five percent (5%) per product line item tested to any bidder that provides products or products-in-packaging that do not contain Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)[; Provided, however, that there will be a maximum preference of five percent (5%) across all items submitted for this preference]. Accordingly, all bidders must certify whether they are seeking the Statutory Preference for PCB-Free Products & Products-In-Packaging for [insert applicable goods] in this Competitive Solicitation. Bidders must make the certification on the certification form attached as Exhibit [] – Statutory Preference for PCB-Free Products & Products-In-Packaging. Bidders who seek to obtain the five percent (5%) bid preference for PCB-Free Products & Products-In-Packaging must, in regard to the products and products-in-packaging pertaining to this procurement, certify either that (a) all of their products & products-in packaging; or (b) specific products & products-in-packaging are PCB-free. To be deemed to be ‘PCB-free,’ the applicable product(s) must be tested, within the previous 365 days, by an independent, third-party laboratory using Environmental Protection Agency Analytical Method 1668c, and have been found NOT to contain PCBs above the practical quantification limit. Such test for the applicable products must be attached to the certification. The cost for conducting any such testing is at the bidder’s expense.
  • Prohibit lead in wheel weights RCW 70A.435

Preferred specifications

The following have been identified as green specifications relevant to the good/services as minimum mandatory requirements. These would not be part of a scored exhibit. If you are using the Washington state procurement manual templates, the following should be inserted in the relevant document that describes the product or performance requirements:

Laws, rules, and executive orders

These laws, rules, and executive orders are the basis for these specifications: