Supplier Diversity  
How we help our partners.
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.
 
View the statement on Supplier Diversity from the Postmaster General and Vice President of Supply Management.
Go to Supplier Diversity Statement

 
Areas of Responsibility
To maintain effective partnerships, the United States Postal Service will be responsible for:

Providing technical advice, program guidance and policy interpretation on Supplier Diversity issues.

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).

Participating in activities that promote supplier development and diversity. Activities include: business forums, workshops, seminars, symposiums, business opportunity fairs and tradeshows.

Assisting with strategic sourcing, identifying supply networks and providing useful sourcing tools.

Collecting, analyzing and reporting Quarterly Direct Awards and subcontracting data.

Publishing materials that support supplier diversity. Examples: “Let’s Do Business”, “Supplier Diversity Terms”, and “Supplier Diversity Plan”.

Coordination of program-related communication, publicity, and maintenance of supplier diversity information on the USPS® Intranet and Internet sites.


Download Let's Do Business (HTML)

Download Supplier Diversity Corporate Plan, Fiscal Years 2007-2010 (PDF) (RTF)

Download Fiscal Year 2009 Goals (PDF) (RTF)


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