UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The University of California Irvine 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

The University of California Irvine Medical Center has implemented programs to encourage and seek 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, which encourages addressable spend to be sourced with small, disadvantaged, minority, women and veteran-owned enterprises. (Sustainable Practices, III.G.3.c, Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, section 5.A, table 2 “EaSR Spend Criteria”)

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 University of California Irvine 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 public, freely available information on the University of California Irvine Medical Center’s internet site. Please see http://supplychain.ucihealth.org/for-suppliers/vendor-credentialing for specific details. Information on open bid solicitations – current vendor contracts sought by the University of California Irvine Medical Center – is additively available at http://supplychain.ucihealth.org/for-suppliers/bid-opportunities. 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 University of California Irvine 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)?

$321,588,939

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: George Kurdy

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 University of California Irvine 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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