Hospital Supplier Diversity Report

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Alameda Hospital (AH) is part of Alameda Health System (AHS) which has a Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (HEDI-B) Committee. The HEDI-B Committee is focused on embedding racial justice, health equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging into AHS’s operational structure (culture, systems, policies, and practices). This includes evaluating the development of a program to identify opportunities for diverse vendors to participate in procurement activities, and where qualified diverse vendors are available to serve an AH/AHS need, to facilitate establishing business relationships with such vendors. It is anticipated that such a program would identify qualified diverse vendors when procurement needs arise and give appropriate weight to vendor diversity status when evaluating vendor proposals.

2. Supplier Point of Contact, Outreach and Communication

Supplier Point of Contact

• Name: Ira Holley
• Phone: 510-618-5707
• Email: iholley@alamedahealthsystem.org

Outreach and Communication

How does your hospital encourage and seek out minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers?

AH, as an AHS affiliate, currently includes vendor diversity status as one of a number of weighted factors considered when evaluating competitive solicitations (i.e., RFP, RFQ, RFI, etc.). Diversity status can account for up to 10% of the total points available during evaluation of competitive solicitations. Given AHS’s HEDI-B goals, AH/AHS is evaluating development of a program to identify opportunities for diverse vendors to participate in procurement activities. Should AH/AHS proceed with development and implementation of a formal vendor diversity procurement and engagement program, elements that may be considered include the requirement that all procurement activities identify at least one diverse vendor capable of meeting AHS procurement needs and that all factors being equal the diverse vendor shall be selected. Such a program would likely include provision of support for procurement staff in identifying qualified diverse vendors capable of meeting AH procurement needs, as well as creation of a vendor registry in which vendors submit their names and interest in being considered for future procurement opportunities.

How does your hospital encourage its employees involved in procurement to seek out minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers?

Presently, procurement staff may review and consider vendor diversity status as part of their overall process for evaluating vendors for inclusion in the AH supply chain. Should AHS proceed with development and implementation of a formal vendor diversity procurement and engagement program, one aspect of such an initiative may include detailed requirements governing inclusion of vendor diversity status in procurement decisions, as well as a provision of necessary resources to enable such an effort.

How does your hospital conduct outreach and communication to minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises?

AH may engage in community outreach to identify and develop diverse vendors for potential business opportunities on an ad hoc basis, however this is not currently part of a formal program requiring or coordinating such outreach for procurement. Should AHS proceed with development and implementation of a vendor diversity procurement and engagement program, a formal diverse vendor outreach process would be implemented. AH/AHS recognizes that outreach is essential to creating a pool of vendors aware of and interested in doing business with AH/AHS.

3. Diverse Supplier Spending

Diverse Procurement Spending by Minority

For the reporting period, enter the dollar amounts procured by your hospital from those business enterprises that employ the majority of their workforce in California.

Diverse Procurement Spending by Other

For the reporting period, enter the dollar amounts procured by your hospital from those business enterprises that employ the majority of their workforce in California.

What is your hospital's total procurement (including diverse and non-diverse suppliers)?

$3,410,519.00

4. Certifications and Third Party Procurement

Certifications

How does your hospital support organizations that promote or certify minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises?

As part of ongoing strategic planning efforts, AH will develop supportive relationships with organizations possessing the skill and experience to assist AH in the economic and social advancement of diverse vendors, including minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veterans business enterprises. Such efforts would help further the community-based development focus of the AHS strategic plan which includes AH as an affiliated facility.

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

No

Do you accept self-certification?

No

Third-Party Procurement

• Name: Vizient Inc.
• Website: www.vizientinc.com

5. Other Relevant Information

As an affiliate of AHS, AH accounts for the bulk of its facility-level expenditures as an aggregate of AHS system-level expenditures. AHS’s financial reporting systems are not currently configured to provide vendor diversity spend information at facility-level, for AHS’s four facilities, with the exception of capital expenditures which is provided. As a result, AHS has elected to report AH vendor diversity spend based solely on the facility-specific capital expenditures made during the reporting period. AHS will be modifying its financial reporting system to enable facility-specific attribution for all expenditures. Separately, AHS system-level diverse Tier 1 + Tier 2 spend (which benefits all AHS facilities) was $17,360,858 drawn from a total spend of $404,302,561 during the reporting period. This spend supports 408 jobs and $109 million dollars in additional economic output.