Sourcing & Procurement Solutions

Supplier Diversity

Our Supplier Diversity Program Policy Statement

Our Supplier Diversity Program Policy is to ensure inclusion of the minority, women and veteran owned businesses in the competitive bidding process at Allstate in support of our commitment to provide quality products and services to our customers while delivering outstanding value to our shareholders.

The Supplier Diversity Program was established in 2003, and since then, we have steadily increased the procurement of goods and services with diverse supplier. In 2007, Allstate spent $201.8 million with minority, women and veteran owned businesses. We are committed to increasing our spend with diverse suppliers again in 2008 and encourage diverse suppliers to complete the Prospective Supplier Registration process.

Diversity Sourcing at Allstate

The role of the Sourcing & Procurement Solutions department at Allstate is to source commodities for the corporation.  Our commodity managers are responsible for identifying qualified suppliers and to ensure the inclusion of minority, women and veteran businesses, in the competitive bidding process where possible at Allstate. To read more about some of our past successes and more detail about the business we have been engage with click here.

All minority, women and veteran businesses who are interested in doing business with Allstate should complete the Prospective Supplier Registration process.  Completing the registration process allows our commodity manager to have access to information about your company used in our sourcing selection process.  Visit Doing Business with Allstate for additional information.

Our Certification Requirements

Allstate recognizes minority, women and veteran enterprises as those that are at least 51 percent owned and operated by minorities or women.

To be eligible for our Supplier Diversity Program, a company must provide certification as a minority, women or veteran business by one of the following councils:

• The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) provides increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.
• The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) provides programs and policies that are designed to expand opportunities and eliminate barriers in the marketplace for women business owners.
• The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Center For Veterans Enterprise Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database is located at www.vetbiz.gov. VIP is the only Federally controlled database in which a legal verification process is used to determine service disabled or veteran status of a small business.

Allstate will also accept certification from local, state or federal government agencies. Allstate does not accept self-certification; we encourage you to obtain certification from one of these councils or agencies.

Please include a copy of your certification in the Austin-Tetra database.
If you have additional questions about certification, please visit the council sites above.