VENTURA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

We are discussing ways to create a policy statement for the hospital.

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

In the short term, we are considering ways to incorporate the requirements of increasing procurement for diverse groups with our county wide procurement department.

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

Long term goal is to work with our county wide procurement department on how to isolate the hospitals procurement strategy and policies to abide by the requirements of AB1392.

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

In process of developing.

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

In process of developing.

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

In process of developing.

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

In process of developing.

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

In process of developing.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

We make every effort to abide by the recommendations made by the Supplier diversity commission, for example we have provided our spend data as requested by the commission for several years now.

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

We have discussed and planed on implementing all relevant recommendations by meeting with internal stakeholders and discussing how we can implement the recommendations.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Ventura County procurement services purchases for the County (and designated special districts) materials, equipment, supplies, furnishings, and other personal property. In order to provide supplies, equipment, and services at the lowest possible cost, consistent with the quality needed for the efficient performance of County activities, higher-cost items are purchased through competitive solicitation.

Website Link(s)

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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)?

$304,961,548

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: Gabriel De La rosa

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

Name: Gabriel De La Rosa

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
• https://www.vizientinc.com/

10. Other Relevant Information

We are working with our County procurement team on how to implement all the requirements of this bill. We are challenged on how to differentiate the hospitals purchasing policy in relation to this bill versus the county wide procurement policies and practices.

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