COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The purpose of this policy is to define the goals Montage Health has set forth in regard to doing business with women and minority-owned business enterprises. It is the stance of Montage Health that diversity strengthens a contract portfolio and is beneficial to the local community and, subsequently, the patients served.

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

With the assistance of our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with West Coast Purchasing Coalition (WCPC), we remain committed to working together in the identification of new supplier diversity opportunities to engage in.

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

With the assistance of our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with West Coast Purchasing Coalition (WCPC), we remain committed to working together in the identification of new supplier diversity opportunities to engage in.

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

With the assistance of our Vizient GPO contract catalog opportunity program.

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

Our Supply Chain Director and our Sourcing and Contract Manager work together with our procurement buyers in the identification of new supplier diversity opportunities to engage in.

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

Through our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with (WCPC) - West Coast Purchasing Coalition.

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

Through our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with (WCPC) - West Coast Purchasing Coalition.

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

Through our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with (WCPC) - West Coast Purchasing Coalition.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Through our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with (WCPC) - West Coast Purchasing Coalition.

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

Through our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with (WCPC) - West Coast Purchasing Coalition.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

With the assistance of our Vizient GPO and our aggregate membership with West Coast Purchasing Coalition (WCPC), we work together in the identification of new supplier diversity opportunities to engage in.

Website Link(s)

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Do you require suppliers to be certified?

Yes

Do you accept self-certification

No

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)?

$78,547,265

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: Van Le

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

Name: Danielle Wallis

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/member-login

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