UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The UC Davis Health (UCDH) relies on the University of California procurement policies.

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

UC does not have timetables, numerical goals, or quotas relating to women, minority or LGBT business enterprises. UCDH plans to undertake the following in the short term: 1) Annual review of procurement spend. 2) Participate in community outreach. The review and outreach programs are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

UC does not have timetables, numerical goals, or quotas relating to women, minority, and/or LGBT business enterprises. UCDH plans to undertake the following in the long term: 1) Host a Supplier Expo. 2) Connect suppliers to individual location supply chain offices by Dec 2026. These goals are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

UCDH has implemented programs to encourage and seek out suppliers, including, but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran business enterprises through its address of the UC Sustainable Procurement Guidelines Economically and Socially Responsible (EaSR) Spend goal, (Sustainable Practices, III.G.3.c, Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, section 5.A, table 2 "EaSR Spend Criteria"). At supplier onboarding we request/capture diversity status identification. The outreach programs are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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 UCDH are encouraged to identify potential suppliers including but not limited to 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. Departments are also encouraged to participate in the Supplier Expo.

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 public, freely available information on the UCDH internet site. Please see https://health.ucdavis.edu/supply-chain/vendor/small-and-diverse-business for specific details. Information on open bid solicitations – current vendor contracts sought by UCDH – is additively available at https://health.ucdavis.edu/supply-chain/vendor/open-solicitations. Communication and outreach is not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation. UCDH also engages in outreach and communication with women-, minority-, LGBT-, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises through a variety of strategic efforts. These include active participation in industry events such as speaker panels, supplier expos, and webinars—most notably our own annual Supplier Expo, which offers in-person opportunities to connect directly with diverse and small business suppliers. These engagements help foster relationships and identify potential future 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

UCDH utilizes the previously noted internet-based services of Supplier.io as appropriate in vendor interactions, referring businesses to a vendor registration portal that has been set up at https://uchealth.supplierone.co/. This registration portal allows businesses to self-certify on any diversity characteristics, which is subsequently reported to UCDH.

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

Communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve any issues or concerns that may impede that supplier being onboarded.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

UC Health has established guidelines and recommendations. We have metrics on reporting spend with diversity supplier by classification group. At our site during the bid process we encourage suppliers to identify diversity classification.

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

UCDH is further enhancing via collaboration, data and reporting metrics, and data literacy opportunities and areas to improve outreach and further new supplier participation, including, but not limited to women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises. These activities will be done both internally in our organization and externally in our community.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Please see BUS43 https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3220485/BFB-BUS-43 for specific details on UC procurement policy and procedures.

Website Link(s)

https://health.ucdavis.edu/supply-chain/vendor/small-and-diverse-business

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)?

$1,350,016,433

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: Madison Lipsker

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

Name: Madison Lipsker

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.vizient.com

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