Supplier diversity program

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HP works with approximately 7,000 product materials suppliers worldwide. However, 700 suppliers account for 99% of the amount HP spends on product materials.

To offset some of the potential disadvantages of this concentrated sourcing approach, HP has a global policy and program to ensure that we offer under-represented businesses equal opportunities to become HP suppliers and resellers. In the United States, these businesses include small, minority-owned, women-owned, and veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. In other countries, they include aboriginal-, ethnic minority- and immigrant-owned businesses.

HP has maintained a Corporate Multicultural Procurement Program Office for more than 30 years, a practice we continue to expand beyond the United States into other markets. These efforts help us meet the expectations of public sector and corporate customers and consumers, gain access to diverse ideas and contribute to the economic strength of the communities in which we operate.

Purchases from minority- and women-owned businesses comprised 24% of HP’s total qualified procurement spending in the United States during 2005. We exceeded all of our targets for awards in 2004, in particular to women-owned small businesses. We utilized these firms to provide logistics services, technical software development, and computer and electronic manufacturing services. We exceeded our target for awards to small minority-owned businesses through increased use of these firms for the repair, replacement and warehousing of HP products, and for providing temporary personnel. We have increased our goals for 2006, even though HP's qualified procurement spend faces significant challenges in today's changing business environment.

In addition to our procurement efforts, we promote and advance supplier and reseller diversity in a number of ways. Our minority reseller program provides an opportunity to strengthen our relationships with minority resellers and customers and to exchange information and ideas on how we can work together to meet customer needs. HP's Micro Enterprise Development Program focuses largely on stimulating economic growth in low-income U.S. communities. Similarly, our work in microfinance and  e-inclusion provides support to small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses worldwide. Finally, we actively mentor our suppliers and host events with local business councils that introduce diverse suppliers to potential customers.

Registering with HP's Multicultural Procurement (MCP) Program is the prerequisite to HP evaluating your firm’s potential to do business with us or to expand the current relationship we have with your firm. Once registered, your business information will be available to all HP supplier and partner alliance decision makers who will contact you directly when an opportunity arises that matches your firm’s capabilities.

• The questionnaire will take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Please have your SBA certification information and Dun and Bradstreet number available.
• Incomplete questionnaires will be stored for 30 days to allow you to obtain the requested information. If that information is not provided within 30 days, you will need to re-enter all information when you begin the questionnaire process at a later time.
• To keep a record of your profile questionnaire you must print it through your Internet browser. You will have access to your profile at any time to provide updates to the information previously submitted.
• If you require additional assistance in completing your questionnaire, please  contact HP

1. Maintain and continue to improve the Small Business Subcontracting Program.
2. Continue to integrate pre-merger Compaq’s Small Business Program into HP.

1. HP achieved the small business, small disadvantaged business and women-owned small business goals projected in HP’s GY05 Subcontracting Plan.
2. HP identified all pre-merger Compaq’s vendor records, validated all business classifications and integrated those records into HP’s financial, procurement and reporting systems.
3. HP enhanced its web-based supplier registration process to improve search and sourcing functionalities and added supplier diversity questionnaires specific to Canada and the United Kingdom.

Goals for 2006

Awards

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