Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.08
Liaison John Pumilio
Submission Date July 17, 2013
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Colgate University
OP-T2-24: Historically Underutilized Businesses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 John Pumilio
Director of Sustainability
Sustainability Office
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Does the institution seek to support historically underutilized businesses, minority-owned businesses, and women owned-businesses?:
Yes

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A brief description of how the institution meets the criteria:
Colgate University has established a Historically Underutilized / Small Business Procurement Program to track and promote procurement with small, disadvantaged and women-owned businesses. Program Objectives: 1) Inform the campus community on the needs and capabilities of small, disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses. 2) To increase participation of small, disadvantaged, and women-owned business concerns in the Colgate University procurement process. Program Highlights: The Colgate University Purchasing Department will continue to collect and compile vendor data related to the business classifications of vendors providing services and goods to the university. By doing so, the above data will continue to become available on an annual basis to monitor and highlight program trends. The above goals are an effort to demonstrate that the Purchasing Department and the Colgate community can effectively include Historically Underutilized Businesses in the procurement process.

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