Your Questions. Answered.
UPMC Supplier Diversity has updated its registration portal with higher capability and capacity to move your business information into the hands of end users and procurement leads. As such, the old registry was not capable of such powerful work. With the technology capable under this new Supplier Diversity Portal, it requires any diverse-certified company interested in doing business with UPMC to register.
UPMC’s Supplier Diversity Program, which began in 1989, and reengineered in 2006, is designed to provide minority, woman-owned, and disadvantaged businesses (MWDBE) equal access to procurement opportunities. The program ensures that certified MWDBEs are provided the maximum opportunity to participate as partners and suppliers of goods and services to UPMC.
Our Approach:
UPMC supports Supplier Diversity as a wholistic part of supply chain and vendor relationship. UPMC strives to execute good business with vendors and suppliers across all variety of business size and ownership nationality and orientation. Supporting Supplier Diversity stimulates the business community within and adjacent to UPMC’s service area and helps to foster entrepreneurship within our community.
MWDBE Corporate Policy Statement
To participate in the program, a business must be a verified self-certified or certified as a minority, woman-owned, or disadvantaged business enterprise (MWDBE). A MWDBE is defined as a business that is owned, controlled, and operated by a minority, woman, or disadvantaged group member. In order to be certified, a business must do the following:
UPMC recognizes certification of MWDBEs by the following agencies:
UPMC recognizes the following forms of self-certification verification:
African-American Chamber of
Commerce of Western Pennsylvania (AACCWP)
Allegheny
County Office of Minority, Women-owned Disadvantaged Business Enterprise?
Black Contractors
Association (BCA)
City of
Pittsburgh, Equal Opportunity Review Commission
National
Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC)
National Association of Veteran
Owned Businesses (NaVOBA)
National Minority Purchasing
Council and its regional affiliates (NMSDC)
Eastern
Minority Supplier Development Council (EMSDC)
Small Business Administration (SBA)
State
of Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program (PAUCP)
U.S. Business Leadership Network
Disability Supplier Diversity Program
Vietnam
Veterans Leadership Program (VVLP)
Women Business Enterprise National
Council and its regional affiliates (WBENC)