Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 71.02
Liaison Emily Vollmer
Submission Date Oct. 15, 2014
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STARS v1.2

Virginia Tech
OP-T2-24: Historically Underutilized Businesses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Kathey Porter
Assistant Director for Supplier Divison
Purchasing
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Does the institution seek to support historically underutilized businesses, minority-owned businesses, and women owned-businesses?:
Yes

A brief description of how the institution meets the criteria:
The university maintains an active program to identify and assist small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses who seek to do business with us. We have a dedicated, full-time manager assigned to perform outreach and training. We code diversity suppliers into our financial data base for ease of recognition by the campus community. Further, we establish performance goals and publish quarterly reports on our performance. In the last fiscal year, 30.5% of all expenditures for goods, services and capital construction were placed with certified diverse firms.

The website URL where information about the program, policy, or practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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