| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 63.61 |
| Liaison | Julie Cahillane |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Northwestern University
OP-15: Inclusive and Local Purchasing
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 1.00 |
Travis
Hawks Temp sustainNU |
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated intent to support disadvantaged businesses, social enterprises, and/or local community-based businesses?:
Yes
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A copy of the policy, guidelines or directive governing inclusive and local purchasing:
None
The policy, guidelines or directive governing inclusive and local purchasing:
"Business diversity should be considered in purchasing decisions, when appropriate. This Program is NU's initiative to create opportunities for vendors reflecting economic and cultural diversity to market their products to NU and to encourage University departments/schools to offer opportunities to such vendors. This includes small business enterprises (SBE), minority-owned business enterprises (MBE), woman-owned business enterprises (WBE), and local (Evanston) business enterprises (LBE)."
More information about our business diversity policy is available in the above attached document, on pages 12-13.
None
Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (inclusive and local expenditures)?:
No
None
The percentage of total purchases from disadvantaged businesses, social enterprises and/or local community-based businesses:
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None
The website URL where information about the institution’s inclusive and local purchasing policies and/or program is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Northwestern just recently enabled the capability to capture diverse and local spending within our financial system. At this point do not feel comfortable enough to give an accurate percentage of our total spending conducted with diverse and local businesses. We can report that approximately $24,720,000 of the University’s spending was with diverse and local vendors in our fiscal year 2015.
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.