Are you looking to improve your vendor certification program to align with your overall procurement equity strategy? Is your jurisdiction aiming to make certification processes more accessible and less burdensome for businesses?
The Procurement Excellence Network hosted a training session that explored the benefits and challenges of vendor certification programs. In this interactive session, we discussed 1) how to assess whether to launch a new certification or leverage reciprocal certification opportunities, 2) how to examine an existing certification program to streamline and reduce burdens placed on businesses, and 3) how to move beyond a certification program to support certified firms to meaningfully participate in upcoming contracting opportunities.
Whether you're just beginning to consider vendor certification or looking to improve an existing program, this session provided practical tools to support making procurement processes more equitable and accessible to disadvantaged businesses.
Immediately following the event, an optional 30-minute open forum was held for attendees to ask questions and share best practices.
