Purchasing Preference Certifications: Where does Employee Ownership Fit?

Companies across the country qualify for and benefit from a wide variety of business certifications, designating them eligible to receive contracts and other spending. These certifications help large companies and organizations diversify their spending, ensuring their dollars make the most impact. While many employee-owned companies theoretically qualify for these certifications, in practice they’ve found themselves met with hurdles and barriers.

How do purchasers decide where exactly to spend these dollars? What sort of impact are they looking to make? And how are employee-owned suppliers who would otherwise qualify pivoting to adjust to hurdles and barriers?

Join us for a session that will examine the issue from both the purchasing and supplier side of the issue while looking at new NCEO initiatives to improve outcomes for employee-owners in the supplier space.