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Supporting Supplier Diversity and Promoting Competition. The United States Postal Service is committed to focusing on and improving our relationships with small, minority-owned and woman–owned businesses (SMWOBs). Through continuous improvement, we will work to improve our processes and procedures to ensure opportunities for all suppliers that provide the value–added products and services we need to increase customer satisfaction and decrease overall cost.
To maintain effective partnerships with our suppliers and promote competition, the Postal Service conducted the following supplier outreach activities and shared the following information:
- Provided technical advice, program guidance and policy interpretation on Supplier Diversity issues.
- Acted as a liaison with industry and trade associations, government agencies and special emphasis groups to develop and maintain a communication and information system on small, minority-owned and women-owned business issues (e.g. Benchmarking Studies and Policy Updates).
- Participated in a number of activities that promote supplier development and diversity. Activities included: business forums, workshops, seminars, symposiums, business opportunity fairs and trade shows.
- Assisted with strategic sourcing, identifying supply networks and providing useful sourcing tools.
- Collected, analyzed and reported Quarterly Direct Awards and subcontracting data.
- Published materials that support supplier diversity and promote competition. Examples: “Let’s Do Business” and “Supplier Diversity Corporate Plan.”
- Over 2,000 suppliers registered to do business with USPS in 2013, for a total of over 11,000 suppliers registered on Supplier Registration tool.
- Coordinated program-related communication, publicity, and maintenance of supplier diversity information on the USPS intranet and Internet sites.
The Postal Service continued to act on longstanding commitments to Supplier Diversity. In Fiscal Year 2013 the Postal Service had contract commitments that exceeded $2.9 billion with small business; $424 million with minority businesses; and $561 million with woman-owned businesses.
Survey Names USPS Top Government Agency for Multi-Cultural Business Opportunities. Postal Service efforts on the part of Supplier Diversity have been rewarded in the marketplace. USPS has been recognized as the top government agency for providing business opportunities to women–owned and minority–owned companies in a survey by DiversityBusiness.com. More than 1.3 million diversity business owners participated in an online election sponsored by DiversityBusiness.com to determine the top 25 government organizations. The business owners were asked 10 questions about diversity business in the marketplace. Their answers were based on factors such as volume, consistency and quality business opportunities granted to diverse companies. This award exemplifies the USPS commitment to build and maintain mutually beneficial business relationships with multicultural suppliers.
For more information about Postal Service supplier diversity efforts, go to: about.usps.com/suppliers/diversity-program.htm.
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