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Purchasing Services Announces FY2010 Supplier Diversity Program Business Goals

Monday, June 22, 2009

Purchasing Services is pleased to announce the supplier diversity program business goals for fiscal year 2010. In order to continue our success in this important procurement business initiative in support of the President's commitment to "engage locally," the following formal objectives have been established for FY2010:

  1. Total spend with diversity owned suppliers: $80 million
  2. Total spend with African American owned suppliers: $22 million (a subset of goal #1)
  3. New diversity suppliers enabled in the Penn Marketplace: 4 suppliers
  4. New diversity supplier contracts that will achieve targeted annul spend with each supplier: 4 supplier contracts
  5. New formal quarterly supplier engagement cycle for suppliers participating in the UPI "Purchasing Day in the Community" events at the Enterprise Center.
  6. New quarterly eProcurement training sessions for suppliers participating in "Purchasing Day in the Community"events at the Enterprise Center.
  7. Partnership with PA MBEC and the Enterprise Center to launch a new buyer/seller diversity supplier database.

In addition to diversity supplier business goals, Purchasing Services also has a formal goal in support of local community business development.

  • Total spend with local community businesses: $95 million

Performance information for all of our procurement goals is available at our Performance Metrics site. Please direct all questions regarding our economic inclusion business goals to Ralph Maier in Purchasing Services.