Diversity Spend

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) guides and supports GW’s ongoing commitment to encourage business opportunities and diversity across its vendor base.   In this effort, P2P encourages university schools and divisions to utilize diverse suppliers.  We work to create opportunities for the following types of diverse businesses.  

We work to create opportunities for the following types of diverse businesses:

 

Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE): An organization that is at least 51 percent owned, controlled and administered by a woman or women who are U.S. citizens. (Note: Controlled is defined as exercising the power to make policy decisions. Operated is defined as actively involved in day-to-day management.) 

  

Veteran Owned Business Enterprise (VBE): A VBE is defined as a veteran who has served in the active military, naval or air services and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. Active duty service is defined as active duty in the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for any length of time and at place home and abroad. A veteran or group of veterans must have 51% ownership and control of the business. 

 

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business Enterprise (SDV): A Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business (SDV) must be at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a veteran with a service connected disability of at least 10% and must be certified by the U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs or the Department of Defense. 

  

Small Business Enterprise (SBE): A business independently owned, operated and in accordance with the definitions and size standards established by the SBA, available at http://www.sba.gov/size. The most common size standards are listed in the following section. 

  

Small Disadvantaged Business Concern (SDB): Small disadvantaged business concern means a small business concern that is at least 51 percent unconditionally owned by one or more individuals who are both socially and economically disadvantaged, or a publicly owned business that has at least 51 percent of its stock unconditionally owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and that has its management and daily business controlled by one or more such individuals. This term also means a small business concern that is at least 51 percent unconditionally owned by an economically disadvantaged Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization, or a publicly owned business that has at least 51 percent of its stock unconditionally owned by one of these entities, that has its management and daily business controlled by members of an economically disadvantaged Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization, and that meets the requirements of 13 CFR 124. 

 

Historically Underutilized Business Zone Small Business Concern (HUBZone): A qualified HUBZone small business concern is an organization that is a small business enterprise (SBE), is located in an historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone), is owned and controlled by one or more U.S. citizens and has at least 35 percent of employees residing in a HUBZone. A HUBZone is an area that is located in one or more of the following: 

  

·         A qualified census tract (as defined in section 42(d)(5)(C)(i)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986); 

·         A qualified non-metropolitan county that is: not located in a metropolitan statistical area (as defined in section 143(k)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), and a) in which the median household income is less than 80 percent of the non-metropolitan State median household income, or b) that based on the most recent data available from the Secretary of Labor, has an unemployment rate that is not less than 140 percent of the statewide average unemployment rate for the State in which the county is located; 

·         Is within the external boundaries of an Indian reservation. 

HUBZone enterprises must certify as such with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and payments to HUB Zone enterprises are reported on the annual Subcontracting Government report. 

 

For more information on GW's diverse business practices, please reach out to us at [email protected].