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Topic Started: Jan 12 2016, 07:32 AM (263 Views)
Quasimodo

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Subpart 19.7—The Small Business Subcontracting Program:


Any contractor receiving a contract for more than the simplified acquisition threshold must agree in the contract that small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns will have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in contract performance consistent with its efficient performance. It is further the policy of the United States that its prime contractors establish procedures to ensure the timely payment of amounts due pursuant to the terms of their subcontracts with small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns.


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https://www.finance.duke.edu/procurement/diversity/index.php

Duke Financial Services Procurements

Supplier Diversity

Duke’s Supplier Diversity Program helps to create diverse supplier relationships while fostering the growth and development of small, local, women and minority-owned firms.

Duke University and Health System strives to reflect and embrace the diversity of our community. Because our patterns of resource use must reflect this pursuit, Procurement and Supply Chain Management will actively pursue a diverse supplier base.

A high quality of life is attendant upon education and healthcare, two concerns at the core of the Duke mission. Recognizing that historical inequity has resulted in systemic barriers to a high quality of life, we have a responsibility to address these barriers and their perpetuation.

We meet this responsibility by taking an enterprising role in order to afford . potential vendors equal opportunity. Working toward supplier diversity adds cultural, operational, and economic value to Duke. By drawing on a broad pool of suppliers, Duke purchasers:

Build relationships with historically underutilized business sectors
Encourage effective, competitive bidding

Support our local economy
As a major force in our intertwined community and economy, we are proud to approach both with an inclusive gaze and collaborative spirit.



Contact Information
Andrea Horn
Supplier Diversity Coordinator
Phone: (919) 613-8353
Fax: (919) 681-6460
SupplierDiversity at duke.edu

Box 90172
Durham, NC 27708


(Whatever happened to accepting the lowest bid for the work? Or getting the best deal? Or looking for the best quality for one's money?)




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Jan 12 2016, 07:35 AM
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https://www.finance.duke.edu/procurement/diversity/index.php

Duke Financial Services Procurements

Supplier Diversity

Duke’s Supplier Diversity Program helps to create diverse supplier relationships while fostering the growth and development of small, local, women and minority-owned firms.

Duke University and Health System strives to reflect and embrace the diversity of our community. Because our patterns of resource use must reflect this pursuit, Procurement and Supply Chain Management will actively pursue a diverse supplier base.

A high quality of life is attendant upon education and healthcare, two concerns at the core of the Duke mission. Recognizing that historical inequity has resulted in systemic barriers to a high quality of life, we have a responsibility to address these barriers and their perpetuation.

We meet this responsibility by taking an enterprising role in order to afford . potential vendors equal opportunity. Working toward supplier diversity adds cultural, operational, and economic value to Duke. By drawing on a broad pool of suppliers, Duke purchasers:

Build relationships with historically underutilized business sectors
Encourage effective, competitive bidding

Support our local economy
As a major force in our intertwined community and economy, we are proud to approach both with an inclusive gaze and collaborative spirit.



Contact Information
Andrea Horn
Supplier Diversity Coordinator
Phone: (919) 613-8353
Fax: (919) 681-6460
SupplierDiversity at duke.edu

Box 90172
Durham, NC 27708


(Whatever happened to accepting the lowest bid for the work? Or getting the best deal? Or looking for the best quality for one's money?)




That's racist.

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Quasimodo

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http://policies.duke.edu/financial/procurement/supplier.php

Supplier Diversity

Duke University actively pursues a diverse supplier base. The University provides equal opportunities for minority and women-owned companies to participate in all aspects of the University's contracting and procurement programs. No potential supplier will be precluded from consideration on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, handicap, veteran status, or sexual orientation or preference.




BUT, some suppliers will be favored over other suppliers -- on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, handicap, veteran status, or sexual orientation or preference...

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http://www.theinstitutenc.org/index.php/news-media/2013-10-10-21-18-26/news-articles/126-q-a-with-supplier-diversity-expert-jane-pleasants,-duke-university-and-duke-health-systems

Q&A with supplier diversity expert Jane Pleasants, Duke University and Duke Health Systems


Jane Pleasants has sourced everything from basketball shoes to orthopedic implants.

As associate vice president of procurement and supply chain management for Duke University and Duke University Health System in Durham, Pleasants oversees more than $1.5 billion in purchasing volume. She also helps the organization create and sustain diverse supplier relationships with small, local, women and minority-owned firms.

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NCIMED: What does supplier diversity mean to you?
Pleasants:
Supplier diversity means encouraging the growth and development of small, minority and women-owned firms because we believe that it is important to improving the economy of our city and our state.

(snip)


Duke is like a small city and, in order for us to have a successful diversity supplier program, we have to communicate and market to those purchasers. We need to demonstrate why our program brings value to the Duke community.


(snip)


We are going to show other departments why we do this, why it’s important to Duke and how to get the information they need to direct their purchases to minority suppliers. For example, we are preparing a video that highlights certain key suppliers that we’ve partnered and had success with. We will present our program along with the video at business manager meetings and departments to make them aware of our program and educate them about our diverse suppliers’ database, which is accessible on our website.


Finally, you have to find those suppliers in which you have the right fit and help them grow their business. You have to focus on those suppliers you can help grow in a big organization like Duke.

NCIMED: What can diverse suppliers do to make themselves more attractive to large companies?
Pleasants:
Our expectation for any supplier – whether they are a small, minority or women-owned business – includes good customer service, a high-quality product or service, and support when we need them. However, we also have a responsibility to create an environment where they can be successful. We want them to provide services and sell products at a level where they have the necessary right resources and then help them grow.

NCIMED: Diverse suppliers often say that getting access to key players and decision makers is the biggest challenge they face. How can they overcome this?
Pleasants:
Almost every company that has not done business with a large organization, such as Duke, struggles with getting in the door. People are busier than ever as a result of recent downsizing.


At Duke, we have a smaller workforce than we did 10 years ago. You don’t have time to meet with hundreds of vendors. However, it’s helpful when a vendor can effectively and electronically submit a succinct package describing who they are, the services they provide, and a customer list. It doesn’t have to be 45-page brochure, just a short PowerPoint presentation. If a vendor can package their electronic marketing materials in a professional way, I can get it in front of the right people.


It’s also important to ask somebody you know within the organization to move it (your electronic marketing materials) forward. If you come up to me at a networking meeting and say, “I would really like to do business with Duke,” and then follow up with a professional, succinct, electronic marketing package, I can then send it along to the right decision maker with a personal note.




And all this time I thought that Duke would reach out to find the best products/services at the lowest prices, and then buy from whoever offered such.

But now I see that vendors are evidently living in a fog, and don't know about Duke; and
so Duke has to search for them, and then push the purchase of their goods and services to Duke, based not on price or quality but
on their level of diversity.

(Which also means that some other vendors will remain at a disadvantage if they cannot qualify as
"diverse", since no one at Duke is going to be pushing for their products/services to be accepted, regardless of price and quality offered.)

Lilliput...




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I don't have any problem with the reasonable goals set and requiring records of efforts made to reach them. The goals are not mandatory outcomes. I do disagree with the contract set aside for DBE only.

Meanwhile, the establishments for higher education have done well at finding new words to describe the same old programs.
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