CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER – VAN NESS CAMPUS

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

When making vendor selections or contracting and purchasing decisions, Sutter Health may consider and include vendors in our RFx events if they meet our standard sourcing qualifications.

2. Goals and Timetables

Please describe your hospital's short-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, for increasing procurement from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

Goal: Finalize Vendor Relations Management Governance - Q1, 2026 Action Steps: Update/Develop Policy and Procedure and Contract Language Action Steps: Incorporate Small Business Vendor procedures into the overall Sutter Health Supply Chain Division. Goal: Conduct outreach and communication with small businesses encompassing women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises Action Steps: Create and implement a system-wide outreach and engagement plan that includes partnering with local, state, and federal community organizations encompassing state chambers of commerce, unions, financial institutions, and state healthcare advocacy and regulatory organizations.

Please describe your hospital's long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, for increasing procurement from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

Goal: Continue comprehensive training for internal Sutter Health system-wide stakeholders - Q3, 2026 Action Steps: provide internal training to convey community impact utilizing small businesses, vendor performance and action plans as appropriate. Action Steps: Leverage nationwide efforts and enhance buyer and vendor education. Enhance buyer education to support Sutter staff in more inclusive purchasing Goal: Continue comprehensive training for external stakeholders - Q3, 2026 Action Steps: Liaison between Sutter Health’s Supply Chain and the business community to communicate procurement forecasts and requirements. Relay information regarding state and federal regulations to determine compliance, advise vendors on increasing their business capacity including counseling potential suppliers how to do business with primes and managing relationships to ensure efficient and cost-effective vendor relations. Goal: Data - Q2, 2026 Action Steps: Track and report Small Business spend, utilization, job growth, and economic impact Data

3. Outreach and Communication

Please describe the methods in which the hospital encourages and seeks out both prime and subcontract suppliers from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers

Our GPO has a robust classification for diverse suppliers in their contract portfolio which are included when conduct an RFx event.

Please describe the methods in which the hospital encourages its employees involved in procurement to seek out women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers

Throughout the year, representatives from Sutter Health system-wide Supply Chain attend various community benefits organizations (CBO) events. We meet one-on-one with small businesses to discuss how Sutter procures professional services and supplies. We will continue to implement a system-wide outreach and small business engagement plan that includes partnering with local, state, and federal community organizations encompassing state chambers of commerce, unions, financial institutions, and state healthcare advocacy and regulatory organizations.

Please describe the methods in which the hospital conducts outreach and communication to women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

Sutter Health system-wide Supply Chain hosted a “How to do Business with Sutter Health” webinar targeting small businesses that encompasses various demographics. The webinar topics included the procurement process, an introduction to the decision makers, and the category forecast. We will continue hosting various webinars targeting small businesses featuring topics addressing procurement of commodities, compliance topics, and topics that are specific to small businesses.

4. Support and Supplier Resolutions

Please describe the methods in which your hospital supports, partners with, or interacts with organizations and other entities in the procurement ecosystem that promote, certify, or contract with women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

Throughout the year, representatives from Sutter Health system-wide Supply Chain attend various community benefits organizations (CBO) events. At these outreach events, we meet one-on-one with small businesses to discuss how Sutter procures professional services and supplies. We will continue to implement a system-wide outreach and small business engagement plan that includes partnering with local, state, and federal community organizations encompassing state chambers of commerce, unions, financial institutions, and state healthcare advocacy and regulatory organizations.

Please describe the methods in which your hospital resolves any issues that may limit or impede an enterprise from becoming a supplier

Sutter Health Supply Chain works closely with our legal team, Accounting, and various ancillary departments to discuss barriers of entry that small businesses of all demographics face.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

Please describe the past implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission

In July 2024, Sutter Health hired a Director of Supplier Diversity, within the Supply Chain Department. That new position and program oversaw and coordinated interactions with current and potential small and diverse Sutter Health vendors or suppliers. In June, 2025, this position was expanded. The Vendor Relations Management Program encompasses all current and potential vendors and the Director currently reports directly to Sutter's Chief of Supply Chain. The Small Business Program resides in the Vendor Relations Management Department and promotes an equitable and fair opportunity for small businesses to compete and perform on contracts competitively awarded.

Please describe the planned implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission

Sutter Health’s Small Business Program is focused on outreach and education. This includes training to small businesses regarding Sutter’s procurement process, prepping to meet with decision-makers, introduction to Sutter primes other community supporters of small business procurement. Sutter Health Supply Chain is continuing its training of internal Sutter buyers regarding small business parameters and size standards, small business barriers of entry and the community economic impact of utilizing small businesses.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Procurement and Certification Process Attend “How to do Business with Sutter” webinar – reach out to Director of Vendor Relations Management slide deck • Register in Supplier Gateway Vendor Portal - https://sutterhealth.suppliergateway.com/ • Business Validation and Certification Mtg. • Sutter Health’s Supply Chain Indirect Spend searches Supplier Gateway Vendor Portal to include small businesses in Sutter Health’s procurement process • Vendor Solicitation Process –Includes the incumbent vendor o Sutter may include a minimum of 3 vendors up to 10 vendors for initial RFx process o After RFI process is completed – Sutter may narrow the vendors down to the top 3-5 • RFx package is initiated. Below are the various procurement vehicles Sutter utilizes o Process Improvement: Focuses on process and efficiencies. o Request for Information (RFI): Helps understand offerings available in the market and/or evaluating a supplier’s ability to do business with Sutter Health. o Request for Quote (RFQ): Gathers specific good and/or service price options. o Request for Demo (RFD): Live demonstration to understand how the good and/or service works. o Request for Proposal (RFP): Compares total value for critical projects/complex categories. Includes project overview, requirements, and solicits vendor bids. • Digital Division Project Review (DDPR) Board is an internal Sutter Health technology review process. DDPR: o Reviews ALL new technology PRIOR to being implemented at Sutter Health. o Determines if technology will be implemented at Sutter Health. o Only Sutter Health Employees can submit to DDPR. o All Technology is implemented Enterprise Wide. o Assigns technical resources / implementation timeline.

Website Link(s)

https://www.sutterhealth.org/vendors

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

Yes

Do you accept self-certification

Yes

7. 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)?

$283,341,923

Procurement means the purchase or lease of supplies, services, equipment, and capital expenditures related to buildings and fixed equipment during the previous calendar year. Procurement does not include items such as employee salaries and wages, fixed asset depreciation, amortization, or taxes.

8. Supplier Point of Contact

Enter the contact information for the individual that business enterprises who are interested in contracting with your facility can reach out to.

Name: Alex McCracken

Enter the contact information for the individual of the diverse business outreach liaison of your hospital.

Name: Alex McCracken

Hospital Contacts for Diverse Business Enterprises are available upon request. Please send request via email to supplier.diversity@hcai.ca.gov

9. Third Party Procurement

Third Party Procurement

• Vizient
• https://www.vizientinc.com/

10. Other Relevant Information

As of June 1, 2025, Sutter Health will no longer accept self-certification. We honor 13 different certifications including an active sam.gov registration.

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