SAN ANTONIO REGIONAL HOSPITAL

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

San Antonio Regional Hospital (SARH) is committed to providing Small Business (SBE), Minority Owned (MBE), Women Owned (WBE), Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Owned (LGBQ), Veteran Owned (VET) and Disabled Veteran Owned (DVET) an equal opportunity to compete for and earn contracts for the goods and services SARH purchase. SARH will work to make it easier for vendors to find procurement opportunities and for SARH to identify available vendors.

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

Strengthen knowledge and capacity by participating in supplier diversity roundtables hosted by Communities Lifting Communities and the Hospital Association of Southern California twice a year. Continue to participate in the quarterly Hospital Supplier Diversity Committee meetings hosted by Communities Lifting Communities and the Hospital Association of Southern California to stay informed of regional strategies, emerging best practices to engage diverse vendors, and policy updates, while fostering collaboration and shared accountability to advance equitable procurement across Southern California. Engage in the monthly peer mentorship group through the Hospital Supplier Diversity Committee to strengthen internal capacity and accelerate program development. In 2025, participate in the pilot use of the Health Care Inclusive Procurement List to encourage proactive outreach to certified diverse vendors for upcoming contract opportunities. This pilot aims to embed inclusive sourcing practices into day-to-day procurement workflows and expand access to underutilized but qualified vendors.

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

Participate in future regional initiatives led by Communities Lifting Communities and the Hospital Association of Southern California to provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to diverse businesses, increasing the number of businesses able to meet hospital contracting needs. Also participate in the upcoming Southern California Regional Impact Purchasing Collaborative and commit to being an active part of a cross-sector ecosystem that connects the health care industry with economic development organizations supporting diverse vendors. Through this collaboration, the hospital will contribute to regional strategies that uplift, train, and connect diverse businesses with meaningful procurement opportunities, advancing inclusive economic growth and health equity. Partner with GPO to ensure diversity suppliers are clearly identified.

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

Sharing open solicitations through vendor networks and local community-based supplier directories maintained by partners like WBEC-West and NGLCC. Hosting networking sessions to connect subcontract suppliers with primes.

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

Encourage or require procurement staff to participated in events, conferences and collaborative sessions facilitated by Communities Lifting Communities and the Hospital Association of Southern California to better understand communication gaps and supplier needs.

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

Support outreach events alongside Communities Lifting Communities and the Hospital Association of Southern California focused on creating opportunities for underrepresented businesses to engage directly diverse businesses, highlighting our commitment to supplier diversity initiatives, and explore potential contracting opportunities.

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 the utilization of the following list of organizations: 1. HASC/CLC 2. SCMSDC B3 Conference 3. American Indian Chamber 4. ProCon 5. Collaboration with prime vendors (i.e. construction) 6. Asian Business Association 7. American Indian Advisory 8. SBDN 9. WBENC West VIB Network

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

Communicate issues with the supplier to assist with resolution in order to remove the barrier.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Executive leadership should create a supplier diversity policy statement that promotes the use of diverse suppliers.

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

Executive leadership should develop and implement: Outreach and reporting metrics that support contracting with diverse suppliers. Hospital supplier diversity procurement metrics that are owned by executive leadership. Fund an internal hospital accountability system to meet specified metrics related to outreach, diverse business usage and provision of technical support for implementation. An inclusion policy for hospitals to identify and track spend with diverse business enterprises (E.g., MBE, WBE, DVBE, LGBTQBE). Procurement processes and policies to document and mitigate internal criteria that may limit or impede diverse suppliers’ ability to competitively respond to bids. A supplier diversity webpage to inform diverse suppliers on the hospital's procurement process including the contact information of a diverse business outreach liaison. Should require prime suppliers to measure and report on spend with diverse suppliers. Should require the review of contract language with prime suppliers to require supplier diversity metrics for any relevant sub-contracts. Should update how hospitals track and report their supplier diversity outreach efforts, in order to report on how many diverse entities are onboarded as suppliers or manufacturers (e.g., GPOs and direct suppliers). Should establish a percentage goal for diverse suppliers in GPOs. Should require diverse suppliers to get their certification through an authorized certification body prior to contract award.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

• SARH uses a series of sourcing processes to capture supply data and knowledge to build a dynamic supplier base, thereby ensuring continuous improvement of the entire supply chain. Strategies are developed by a thorough understanding of the external supplier environment and internal business partner requirements. Purchasing teams will apply supply chain management business practices to both strategic sourcing and individual purchases and examine demand trends, the marketplace, and the supplier community to determine how to achieve best value. • SARH continuously assess the marketplace for drivers of market segments, industry trends, impact of new technology, competitive dynamics, supplier characteristics, and suppliers (national or regional) in a market. • When appropriate, SARH Supply Chain will: • Utilize the latest in print and electronic resources (industry reports, supply periodicals, databases, etc.) to identify leading-edge suppliers in an industry. • Analyzes the sourcing history of a product or service to determine the level of competition, prices, and performance results of existing suppliers to determine if a new supplier would better meet clinical supply or facility service needs. • Attends and hosts industry briefings to identify potential suppliers to meet SARH’s needs. • Evaluates products that appear to be the same across suppliers (beyond branding) to determine real differences in the product or services and identify suppliers with a competitive advantage. • Obtains source lists of proven suppliers from trade and industry associations, government agencies, business development groups, and purchasing organizations. • SARH will announce potential business opportunities in the most appropriate and effective media to identify new sources that will ensure that SARH obtains the best value while bidding in a RFP. • When appropriate, SARH will: • Issue Requests for Information (RFI) or Proposal (RFP) to obtain general information on the market, products, services, or suppliers. • Issue pre-solicitation notices (also called “sources sought” notices) to identify suppliers based on the business and competitive needs for SARH. • Publicize opportunities for suppliers to be prequalified for commercially available goods or services purchased routinely, whether for an individual purchase or for a series of purchases. • Announces competitive or noncompetitive contract awards having significant subcontracting opportunities to promote competition in subcontracting.

Website Link(s)

National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)
Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC)

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

No

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)?

$52,506,974

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: Clyde Fulks

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

Name: Clyde Fulks

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
• http://www.vizientinc.com

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