Procurement & Supplier Diversity Services Blog » Shannon Wampler

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about the frustrations small businesses are feeling when dealing with large companies: On average, big businesses – those with 1,000 or more employees – paid their bills more than a week past the due date on invoices, according to a report that’s expected to be released by Experian next [...]

Skanska will be hosting a meeting next week in Norfolk for the construction trade community to learn more about an upcoming project at Old Dominion University. These meetings are a great way for SWaM trades contractors to get involved in subcontracting, which is something we suggest for firms wondering how to get their “foot in [...]

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has just announced the opening of the competition for the third annual Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards, which honor “businesses that demonstrate sustained vitality in communities facing challenging economic conditions.” You can find out if your business qualifies by clicking here, then go into the nomination form. The [...]

We’re thinking about doing a quarterly Procurement & Supplier Diversity Services newsletter for UVa employees. Turns out a) it’s been done before here in PSDS, and b) this “electronic mail” thing sure sounds like the wave of the future! From the Oct-Nov 1989 issue of “The UVA Buyline”    

Starting this month on April 24th, the University of Virginia’s Procurement & Supplier Diversity Services, in conjunction with Applied KnowledgeLabs, will launch its 12-month program aimed at helping small businesses build the tools to move their business to the 5%: High Impact Firms that have acheived 25% sales growth for two years, and doubled their [...]

Are you ready? Here are some of the events UVa Procurement & Supplier Diversity will be holding or attending this spring. Mar 21, 10am-12pm: UVa Vendor Training Mar 23, 1pm: Gilbane Building Company will be holding a pre-bid informational session & outreach for the UVa Rotunda Renovation Phase I – Roof Replacement project, seeking the [...]

Les Haughton, Director of Supplier Diversity, will be representing the University of Virginia at the upcoming “Selling to the Government” workshop on Tuesday, March 13. Les will be talking about upcoming procurement opportunities, and how to do business with the University, and will be joined by the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Date: Tuesday, [...]

For those small business owners in the Charlottesville area, this is a great (free) networking group that features excellent speakers and ample networking time. I plan to be at both the January and February meetings: January 24, 2012, 6pm-830 pm, Stultz Center at PVCC. Featuring Christian Howell from Adams & Garth Staffing to talk about [...]

The UVa School of Medicine will be hosting a Life Sciences Product Show on Wednesday, January 11, at Jordan Hall from 12 pm-1:30 pm. The flyer for the event is pasted below. Several minority-owned businesses will be featured, including: The McConnell Group, currently on the UVa Animal Husbandry contract Quality Biological, Inc., currently on the [...]

Innovator Award Presented to UVa Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services on Behalf of Governor McDonnell   The Governor of Virginia, along with the Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise, awarded the Supplier Diversity Innovator Award to the University of Virginia’s Office of Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services for its use of competitive negotiation on November [...]