SUTTER SOLANO MEDICAL CENTER

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

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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

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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

We look at all suppliers equally who meet our standard qualifications criteria during RFx process.

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

We consistently reach diverse suppliers through our GPO ecosystem and we also have a subscription to find diverse suppliers.

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

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

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5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

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

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6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

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Website Link(s)

https://www.sutterhealth.org/for-vendors

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

1

Do you accept self-certification

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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)?

$31,590,295

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: Sutters Vendor Line

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

Name: --

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

None.

10. Other Relevant Information

Sutter Health is investing in a proper DEI program moving forward as well as expanding our scope for monitoring DEI spend. Lastly, we do a signficiant amount of non-diverse small business, $80M+ annually in non-construction spend.

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