Growth Through Diversity

Diverse Supplier Services and Support

Small businesses account for upwards of 65% of all new jobs created in America. Many of these businesses are diverse suppliers such as Minority, Women-Owned and Service Disabled Veteran Owned businesses. In response, well-intentioned federal and state programs have been put in place to promote the use of small businesses – and diverse supplier businesses in particular. Likewise, large businesses in the commercial sector are increasingly focused on promoting diverse supplier utilization as a means of achieving competitive advantage.

Collingwood has unique experience supporting Minority, Women-Owned and Veteran-Owned businesses as they work to grow and achieve predictable and repeatable success in the Government and commercial sectors. Leveraging the capabilities of the Collingwood team and its network of key strategic partners, Collingwood assists these small and diverse businesses to achieve the scale and counter-party quality necessary to meet the requirements of today’s demanding market.

Collingwood's Diverse Supplier Services Include:

Improved Operational Quality and Capability – Collingwood provides solutions that improve scalability through improved operations infrastructure and planning, improved corporate planning and execution, and processes and procedures designed to support improved operational quality and scale.
Improved Counter-Party Quality – Collingwood provides assistance implementing improved accounting and financial management systems and infrastructure as well as assistance with capital requirements – operating and growth capital, including loan funds and investment; Collingwood also provides small businesses with general business management guidance and support.
Improved Value Creation – Collingwood offers strategic business planning to identify new business channels and opportunities; support to improve client capture, retention and growth; support to identify, close and execute on joint venture opportunities as well as work in support of the creation of terminal value through the development of opportunities to identify, create and protect the firm’s intellectual property assets.

Collingwood’s small business and diverse supplier expertise is also is valued by large businesses that seek to increase their small and diverse supplier utilization and to improve their enterprise diverse supplier compliance. Collingwood’s services for large business include:

Improved Methods of Diverse Supplier Identification – Collingwood provides large business with access to best-in-class diverse suppliers whose counter-party quality and subject matter capability have been tested and thoroughly vetted by the Collingwood team thus reducing the risk of partner failure.
Improved Diversity Compliance – Through its strategic partnership with Sarah Lyu Consulting (SLC) – Collingwood can support large firms to design and implement Diversity Supplier Programs, including: (i) Internal Supplier Diversity Assessment and Policy Development; (ii) Supplier Diversity Strategic Planning; (iii) Sourcing and Supply Chain Management; (iv) Program Metrics, Goal Setting and Measurement; (v) Reporting, Tools, Systems and Processes; (vi) Training and Education, and; (vii) Outreach and Communication.