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The United States Postal Service® is committed to focusing on and improving our relationships with small, minority- 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.
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View the statement on Supplier Diversity from the Postmaster General and Vice President of Supply Management.
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Areas of Responsibility
To maintain effective partnerships, the United States Postal Service will be responsible for:
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Providing technical advice, program guidance and policy interpretation on Supplier Diversity issues. |
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Acting 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). |
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Participating in activities that promote supplier development and diversity. Activities include: business forums, workshops, seminars, symposiums, business opportunity fairs and tradeshows. |
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Assisting with strategic sourcing, identifying supply networks and providing useful sourcing tools. |
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Collecting, analyzing and reporting Quarterly Direct Awards and subcontracting data. |
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Publishing materials that support supplier diversity. Examples: “Let’s Do Business”, “Supplier Diversity Terms”, and “Supplier Diversity Plan”. |
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Coordination of program-related communication, publicity, and maintenance of supplier diversity information on the USPS® Intranet and Internet sites. |
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Download Let's Do Business (HTML)
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Download Supplier Diversity Corporate Plan, Fiscal Years 2007-2010 (PDF) (RTF)
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