UCSF MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay & UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion (“UCSF Medical Center”) relies on the University of California (UC) BUS-43 (Purchases of Goods and Services; Supply Chain Management) policy, which mandates in its procurement activities: "It is University of California policy that no firm seeking to do business with the University shall be discriminated against..." Additively, the "University recognizes that it has a responsibility to provide procurement opportunities to a diverse supplier pool…" and "seeks to dedicate an appropriate portion of the University’s business to small, diverse and disadvantaged businesses through outreach programs..." (BUS-43, III, Part 3, section B.1-3) Also, the medical center follows the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices, which directs: “[O]utreach, education, and providing equal access to small, diverse, and disadvantaged suppliers for all applicable University procurement opportunities…” (Sustainable Practices, III.G.5.b)

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

Under its Anchor Institution Initiative, the UCSF enterprise (“UCSF”), comprised of the UCSF Medical Center (including the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute) and the UCSF academic system, is committed to working with the community to leverage its operating budget to strengthen its ability to improve the health of the city’s underserved and under-resourced communities, including but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran enterprises, and to promote health equity. UCSF leadership, under the direction of Chancellor Sam Hawgood, has accepted a report titled “Advancing Health Equity in San Francisco: An Assessment of UCSF’s Anchor Institution Capacity and Recommendations for Strategic Direction.” The report, the first step in developing a long-term plan, identified recommendations to drive forward UCSF’s goal of diversifying spend. From these recommendations, a set of priorities were established, calling on greater focus on the development of enterprise-wide infrastructure to support the work of diversifying UCSF spend. In November 2021, UCSF announced that it launched its first community investment program to support housing and minority-owned small businesses. This 3-year pilot program augments UCSF’s Anchor Institution Initiative to address health equity through community economic support. Additively, in correspondence with the entire University of California system, the UCSF Medical Center encourages and seeks out minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran business enterprises through its address of the UC Sustainable Procurement Guidelines Economically and Socially Responsible (EaSR) Spend goal.

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

Employees involved in procurement at the UCSF Medical Center are encouraged to identify minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran businesses through use of an internet-based service where certified businesses can be identified by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code whenever a contracting need arises. Procurement staff are further encouraged to utilize this vendor identification resource in meeting complimentary objectives defined in UC’s Small Business First initiative.

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

Communication and outreach to potential minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran owned business for becoming potential suppliers is conducted through efforts under the UCSF Anchor Institution Initiative. Information on open bid solicitations is additively available at the UC Public Bid Site, https://smart.gep.com/publicRFx/ucal?oloc=215#/. In the case of disabled veteran as well as women owned enterprises, proactive outreach on contracts less than $250,000 in value is prescribed as part of the UC Small Business First initiative in which the UCSF Medical Center participates.

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)

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Do you require suppliers to be certified?

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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)?

$659,477,842

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: Marliz Copado

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

Given functional difficulty in determining businesses with a majority workforce within California, the UCSF Medical Center is providing procurements with qualified minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran businesses regardless of workforce location in this year's submission.

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