Supplier Diversity Corporate Baseline Assessment

1.- Do you currently have a Supplier Diversity Program? *

10.- Do you have a budget to manage your supplier diversity program? *

12.- What diversities does your program recognize? *

13.- Do you require diverse suppliers to be certified? *

14.- Do you accept classified suppliers? *

15.- Do you accept self-certified suppliers? *

16.- Do you have goals associated with your Supplier Diversity Program? *

17.- Is your goal a dollar goal or a percentage goal? *

18.- Do you have any other goals associated with your Supplier Diversity Program? *

20.- Are the goals shared goals? *

22.- Do departments and/or divisions have goals? *

23.- If so, are the goals shared across the entire organization? *

24.- Do you have long-standing contracts and relationships with non-diverse suppliers? *

25.- What is the average number of years that you hold contracts with non-diverse suppliers? *

26.- How often does your company engage diverse suppliers for opportunities? *

27.- Does the CEO/C-Suite support the Supplier Diversity Program? *

28.- Does the CEO/C-Suite communicate the Supplier Diversity Goals to the Organization? *

29.- Does the Supplier Diversity Professional meet with the CEO/C-Suite? *

30.- Does your Supplier Diversity Program have a Steering Committee? *

31.- If so, does the Steering Committee have CEO/C-suite members? *

34.- If you have a committee, how often does the Committee meet? *

37.- Do you provide advance or prompt payments to your suppliers? *

38.- Does the Supplier Diversity Program Track Spend? *

39.- If so, how often do you track the diversity spend? *

40.- How often do you measure spend to goals? *

41.- How often do you report spend to the departments and divisions? *

43.- Do you have a Supplier Diversity Policy Statement? *

44.- Does your current spend file list the diversities of the suppliers? *

45.- Are your suppliers required to report direct spend (i.e. spend from suppliers being used specifically for work related to your contract “only”)? *

46.- Are your suppliers required to report indirect spend (i.e. spend from suppliers being used that are not doing work related to your contract)? *

49.- Are you able to determine the diversity of your suppliers? *

51.- Have you ever scrubbed your supplier files to determine who is diverse? *

56.- Do you engage the local community for opportunities that are available? *

57.- Do you attend local conferences/trade shows to connect with diverse suppliers? *

59.- Do you attend national conferences/trade shows to connect with diverse suppliers? *

61.- Does your Supplier Diversity Program connect with internal buyers/category managers to determine forecasting for future opportunities? *

63.- Do your suppliers have to participate in a competitive bid to win your business? *

65.- Do you require that at least one diverse supplier compete on the bid? *

66.- Do you provide feedback to diverse suppliers who do not win bids? *

67.- Is there support training or communications provided to the diverse supplier population surrounding bids? *

68.- Does your company compete on solicitations or request for proposals to win contracts? *

69.- Have you ever competed on bids that require diverse suppliers in order to win the bid? *

70.- Does your company compete on solicitations that require a subcontracting plan with diverse suppliers? *

71.- If so, does your company provide diverse suppliers with financial support for the solicitation? *

72.- Are you engaged in any mentoring programs? *

73.- Are you a Federal Contractor? *

74.- Do you have other government contracts? *

75.- Do your government customers require you to report diversity spend? *

77.- Have you lost business due to a lack of Supplier Diversity initiatives? *

78- Do you report Tier 2 for clients and customers? *

79.- Do you have a Tier 2 Diversity Program for prime contractors to report to you? *

81.- Do you have a Tier 2 Policy document that you provide prime contractors? *

82.- Does your contract language include information about Diverse Suppliers or any Diverse Flow-Down Language? *

84.- Does your contract language require or suggest a spend goal? *

86.- Does your contract language require suppliers participate in your Tier 2 Program? *

87.- Do you allow contracting suppliers to redline your organization's contract language regarding diverse suppliers? *

88.- Do you have exclusivity contracts with prime contractors, that prevent you from utilizing other suppliers? *

89.- Do you allow Managed Service Providers (MSP) to compete on the same business that they are responsible for managing? *

91.- Do you have a system where suppliers are required to report their diversity spend? *

93.- Does your company have a performance-tracking tool? *

94.- Are the diverse suppliers tracked in the tool? *

95.- Do you evaluate the diverse suppliers based on the feedback in the tool? *

96.- Do you create a strategic plan for your Supplier Diversity Program? *

97.- Is this plan completed annually? *

98.- How often do you evaluate your strategic plan? *

100.- How often do you evaluate your Supplier Diversity Program’s systems, and other mechanisms in place? *

102.- If so, how often do you update your SOP or processes for your Supplier Diversity Program? *