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Introduction
The University of Arizona has a full-time diversity manager who focuses on developing new small, minority and women-owned business sources. He is an active board member of the Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council, which is a chapter of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the largest minority business networking organization in the country, and a co-coordinator of the Supplier Diversity Division of the National Association of Educational Procurement. He is also one of the leaders of the Small Business Alliance of Southern Arizona, which coordinates Minority Development Week for Tucson and Southern Arizona. The UA Supplier Diversity Manager works with the Tucson Hispanic and Black Chambers of Commerce, the Chinese Cultural Center, the Arizona Department of Commerce, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency in Phoenix, in providing services to minority-owned, women-owned and other small businesses. The Diversity Manager meets with more than 100 different small, minority and women-owned businesses throughout the year to walk them through the bidding process and procedures of the University of Arizona. He has set goals to mirror the general federal goals for small, minority and women-owned businesses, as well as other targeted groups. Those goals are 23 percent for small businesses; 5 percent for minority and women-owned businesses; and 3 percent for all other categories. Those goals are monitored and contract awards are reported annually by small business classification to comply with federal and state Small Business subcontract requirements and to make modifications to procedures if necessary.
Supplier Diverstiy Staff
| Ernie Webster Supplier Diversity Manager ewebster@u.arizona.edu Phone: 621-2888 Fax: 621-9847 |
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Location and Business Hours
The Supplier Diverstiy Program is located in the University Services Annex Building, on the 6th Floor, at the corner of 6th St. and Main (click for map). Our business hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Closed during lunch from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.).
Mailing Addresses:
Campus Mail:
Procuement & Contracting Services
Supplier Diversity, 6th Floor
USA Building
Campus 210300
US Mail:
The University of Arizona
Supplier Diversity
USA Bldg 300A, 6th Floor
P.O. Box 210300A
Tucson, AZ 85721
Federal Express, UPS, etc.:
The University of Arizona
Supplier Diverstiy, 6th Floor
220 W. 6th St.
Tucson, AZ 85701
Please do not use our physical address for regular US Mail.
Page last updated June 19, 2009
