UCLA WEST VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
1. Policy Statement
Supplier Diversity Policy Statement
The UCLA West Valley Medical Center 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. The UCLA West Valley Medical Center plans to undertake the following in the short term: 1) Annual review of procurement procedures to address supplier diversity goals. 2) Implement an outreach program for addressable spend by Dec 2026 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. The UCLA West Valley Medical Center plans to undertake the following in the long term: 1) Create an external website for suppliers to reach out and make contact with system and/or local Supply Chain offices by Dec 2026 2) Connect suppliers to individual location supply chain offices by Dec 2026 The website and connections of suppliers to supply chain offices 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
The UCLA West Valley Medical Center has implemented programs to conduct broad outreach of suppliers, including, but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran business enterprises. 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 UCLA West Valley Medical Center 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.
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 suppliers, including, but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran owned business is conducted through public, freely available information on the UCLA West Valley Medical Center's internet site. Please see http://purchasing.uclahealth.org/information-for-vendors for specific details. Information on open bid solicitations – current vendor contracts sought by the UCLA West Valley Medical Center – is additively available at http://purchasing.uclahealth.org/bidding-on-jobs. Communication and outreach is not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.
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
The UCLA West Valley Medical Center 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 the UCLA West Valley Medical Center.
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 guidlelines 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
The UCLA West Valley Medical Center 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://www.uclahealth.org/purchasing
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.
| Business Ownership | Tier 1 Procurement | Tier 2 Procurement | Total Procurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| African American | -- | $874 | $874 |
| Hispanic American | $2,036 | $29,505 | $31,541 |
| Native American | -- | $91 | $91 |
| Asian Pacific | $165,476 | -- | $196,215 |
| Unknown Minority | $7,113 | $79,792 | $86,905 |
| Total | $174,625 | $141,001 | $315,626 |
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.
| Business Ownership | Tier 1 Procurement | Tier 2 Procurement | Total Procurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minority* | $174,625 | $141,001 | $315,626 |
| Women | $431,350 | $315,549 | $746,899 |
| LGBT | -- | $32 | $32 |
| Disabled Veteran | $2,892 | $20,514 | $23,406 |
| Less Duplicate Amount (-) | -$117,119 | -$20,603 | -$137,722 |
| Combined Total | $491,748 | $456,493 | $948,241 |
*Total from the Diverse Procurement Spending by Minority table.
What is your hospital's total procurement (including diverse and non-diverse suppliers)?
$78,639,405
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: Tynysha Moseley
Enter the contact information for the individual of the diverse business outreach liaison of your hospital.
Name: Tynysha Moseley
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
Given functional difficulty in determining businesses with a majority workforce within California, the UCLA West Valley 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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