The Tier II supplier diversity program encourages Xerox Tier I suppliers to expand and increase business opportunities with small, women-owned, and diverse businesses. Please submit your quarterly report summarizing your indirect spend with diverse suppliers. Xerox requires this information to track performance and to gather contact data for our records in case any information submitted needs clarification.

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Business Size and Classification Definitions

Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBEs)
MBEs include businesses that are certified by an approved agency to be at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a minority individual or group. In the case of publicly owned businesses, at least 51% of the stock must be owned by minority group members. Minorities include persons of color who are Asian Pacific Americans, Sub-Continent Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. Foreign-owned firms operating in the U.S. are not included in these categories.

Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBEs)
WBEs include businesses that are certified by an approved agency to be at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a non-minority woman or group of non-minority women who are U.S. citizens. In the case of publicly owned businesses, at least 51% of the stock must be owned by non-minority women.

Small Owned Business (including Alaskan Native Corporations (ANCs) and Indian tribes)
A concern, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation in which it bidding on Government contracts, and qualified as a small business under the criteria and size standards in 13 CFR Part 121 (see FAR 19 102). Such a concern is “not dominant in its field of operation” when it does not exercise a controlling or major influence on a national basis in a kind of business activity in which a number of business concerns are primarily engaged. In determining whether financial resources, competitive status or position, ownership or control of materials, process, patents, license agreements, facilities, sales territory, and nature of business activity. (See 15 U.S.C. 632.)

Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) (including Alaskan Native Corporations (ANCs) and Indian tribes)
A Small Disadvantaged Business is a small business concern that is owned and controlled by one or more socially and economical disadvantaged individuals and meets the SDB eligibility criteria of 13 CFR 124.1002.

Women Owned Small Business (WOSB)
A Small Disadvantaged Business is a small business concern that is owned and controlled by one or more socially and economical disadvantaged individuals and meets the SDB eligibility criteria of 13 CFR 124.1002.

Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB)
A small business concern that is at least 51% unconditionally owned by one or more veterans (as defined at 38 U.S.C. 101(2); or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock of which is unconditionally owned by one or more veterans (U.S. citizen); and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more veterans.

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business
A small business concern that is at least 51% unconditionally owned by one or more service disabled veterans (as defined at 38 U.S.C. 101(2), with a disability that is service connected, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(16)) and documented on DD214 or equivalent; or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock of which is unconditionally owned by one or more service-disabled veterans; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of a veteran with permanent and severe disability, the spouse or permanent caregiver of such veteran.

HUBZone Small Business
A small business concern that appears on the List of Qualified HUBZone Small Business Concerns maintained by the SBA (13 CFR 126.103).

Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business
An Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business is a small business concern that is at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more women who are U.S. citizens and who are economically disadvantaged in accordance with 13 C.F.R. §§1327.200, 127.201, 127.202 and 127.203

Indirect Tier II spend
Purchases from small, women-owned and diverse suppliers that support the Tier I supplier’s business operations.