Access the SPARC Pro Supplier Diversity Insights Tool

An inclusive procurement strategy widens the pool of potential suppliers and promotes competition in the supplier base, which can improve quality and drive down costs. The Supplier Diversity Insights tool enables departments to view their impact on the campuses overall supplier diversity spend.

Diversity spend is a measure of the value of goods and services that the UMass system purchases from minority-owned, women-owned, disabled veteran-owned, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-owned suppliers.

The tool helps you identify diverse suppliers in the following categories:

  • Minority Business Enterprise
  • Woman-Owned Business
  • Small Business Enterprise
  • Veteran Business Enterprise
  • Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise
  • LGBT Business Enterprise
  • Certified Aboriginal Business
  • HUB Zone Certified
  • People with Disability
  • Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
  • Women-Led Business Enterprise

Supplier Diversity Insights

  • Diversity vs. Non-Diversity Spend: Total spend made with diverse suppliers (Minority owned (MBE), Women owned (WBE), Veteran owned, Service disabled owned, Minority/Women owned, Disadvantaged business, LGBT Business) out of the total spend
  • Diversity Spend by Months: Monthly trend of spend made with diverse suppliers
  • Spend with Diverse Groups: Breaks down the total diverse spend into specific diverse groups like MBE, WBE, LGBTQ, etc. along with details of those contracts.
  • Diverse Spend by Categories: Breaks down the total diverse spend into spend categories like Construction, Technology, Professional services etc. along with details of those contracts.

Supplier Diversity Mapping

  • Diverse Spend Distribution within MA and US States: Historical spend with diverse suppliers with ability to show overall UMass and campus specific spending by locations, for example, state, zip code, and county.

Why is Supplier Diversity important to UMass?

Supplier Diversity compliments the values that the university places on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). The university's DEIA Office works to "build a stronger and more inclusive university community," which extends to the suppliers that UMass does business with. More specifically, the university's Supplier Diversity strategy focuses on:

  1. Building a mature program that positions UMass as a leading higher education partner and peer for supplier diversity
  2. Delivering real economic impact - increased innovation, creativity, opportunity, and access - by doing more business with historically underrepresented communities
  3. Demonstrating our DEIA values across and with our supplier base, to increase the sense of inclusion and belonging for internal and external constituents alike

Access the UMass Supplier Diversity Page

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  1. Use this Smartsheet form to report issues, request assistance, or submit a suggestion in SPARC Pro
  2. Contact Marcus Stuart at mstuart@umassp.edu